Description: This photograph shows the round tower of the St. Raphael Church elementary school. This 3-story stone building, built in 1890, began as the United States Post Office with a construction cost of $150,000. Sometimes just called the United States Building, it was designed by Charles Creager in the Romanesque style. By 1898 the space had become inadequate and funding was received to begin renovations. An axillary station was established in the Crowell Publishing building until expansions were complete. A new Post Office was built in 1934 at 150 North Limestone, which is probably when the old Post Office became the Saint Raphael Church elementary school. Formerly located on the corner of East High and South Spring Streets, the building was demolished in the 1960s to create more room for Parish parking. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F08_028
Subjects: Springfield (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc; Roman Catholic Church; Post office buildings Ohio; Catholic elementary schools--United States
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the round tower of the St. Raphael Church elementary school. This 3-story stone building, built in 1890, began as the United States Post Office with a construction cost of $150,000. Sometimes just called the United States Building, it was designed by Charles Creager in the Romanesque style. By 1898 the space had become inadequate and funding was received to begin renovations. An axillary station was established in the Crowell Publishing building until expansions were complete. A new Post Office was built in 1934 at 150 North Limestone, which is probably when the old Post Office became the Saint Raphael Church elementary school. Formerly located on the corner of East High and South Spring Streets, the building was demolished in the 1960s to create more room for Parish parking. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F09_006
Subjects: Springfield (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc; Roman Catholic Church; Post office buildings Ohio; Catholic elementary schools--United States
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of the cross erected at the Church of the Immaculate Conception or Immaculata Church in the Mount Adams/Mount Ida neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The church was built in 1859 for the German Catholic population of the area, and from 1860 to present it has been a pilgrimage church. In 1977, it absorbed the nearby Irish parish of Holy Cross. The church was listed National Register of Historic Places in 1978. An attached piece of paper reads "GOOD FRIDAY PILGRIMAGE, CINCINNATI. Pilgrims at the cross erected outside the Church of the Immaculate Conception. 'On Good Friday devout Catholics perform a colorful pilgrimage up several flights of steps from the foot of E. Third St. in self-communion, then 103 steps to the CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, Pavillion and Guide Sts., receive blessings from a fragment of the true cross, climb steps to the Holy Cross Monastery and Church, and pass reverently through the dim "grotto" beneath the church and then into the church.'-Cincinnati City Treatment. "Above the head of Jesus is inscribed: INRI (Iesus Nazarenum Rex Iudaeorum). Note the two boys with legs astraddle the iron fence, straining to touch the cross. Federal Writers' Photographer, Cincinnati. March 26, 1937." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F08_009_001
Subjects: Crosses; Catholic Church--United States; Religion in Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "SCHOOLS; 1940 Graduating class, St. Nicholas School, Zanesville Johnson Photo." This is a photograph of several graduates standing in front of St. Nicholas School in Zanesville, Ohio. Today, St Nicholas is a grade school, but these students appear to be high school students. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F07_015_001
Subjects: Graduation (School); Catholic high schools; Catholic schools--United States--History--20th century; Catholic Church; Religion in Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: St. Gerard's Catholic School is an elementary located at 240 West Robb Avenue in Lima, Ohio and is part of the Diocese of Toledo, Ohio. It was started in 1916 as a church and school by the Redemptorist Priests and the Ursuline Sisters. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F09_027
Subjects: Churches--Ohio; Catholic schools--United States--History--20th century; Catholic schools; Catholic Church; Religion in Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)