St. George's Catholic Church (Cincinnati, Ohio)

St. George Parish and Newman Center
Facade prior to the fire
Location Cincinnati, Ohio
Coordinates 39°7′40.96″N 84°30′44.29″W / 39.1280444°N 84.5123028°W / 39.1280444; -84.5123028Coordinates: 39°7′40.96″N 84°30′44.29″W / 39.1280444°N 84.5123028°W / 39.1280444; -84.5123028
Architect Samuel Hannaford [1]
Architectural style Romanesque[1]
MPS Samuel Hannaford and Sons TR in Hamilton County
NRHP Reference # 80003088[1]
Added to NRHP March 3, 1980[1]

Old Saint George Church is a historic Catholic church in the Clifton Heights neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, near the University of Cincinnati. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on March 3, 1980 as St. George Parish and Newman Center.

The red brick church was designed by Samuel Hannaford in the Romanesque Revival style, and opened in 1873. Declining attendance brought about by shifts in neighborhood demographics and worship habits in the 1970s and 1980s led the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati to consolidate the parish with St. Monica's and close the church in 1993. The property was sold the following year to a group called the Christian Ministries Center, which operated a community and arts center out of it until 2004. St. George's two steeples caught fire and partially collapsed on February 1, 2008.[2]

In March 2015, Crossroads Church acquired the property from the Clifton Heights Community Urban Development Corporation and announced plans to renovate and occupy it as their fifth location in Ohio.[3]

Front and side of the church after its 2008 fire

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Staff (2007-06-30). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "History of St. George". University of Cincinnati. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
  3. Weldon, Casey (March 8, 2015), Crossroads picks Old St. George Church for new Clifton Heights site, WCPO-TV News

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