Sacred Heart Catholic Church and Parsonage (Rich Fountain, Missouri) explained

Sacred Heart Catholic Church and Parsonage
Coordinates:38.3969°N -91.8814°W
Built:1879, 1881
Builder:Mr. Gosse
Architecture:Vernacular Gothic-German
Added:September 9, 1982
Refnum:82003155

Sacred Heart Catholic Church and Parsonage is a historic Roman Catholic church located on Route U in Rich Fountain in Osage County, Missouri. The church was built in 1879, and is a one-story, rectangular building constructed of cut- and squared buff-limestone rubble blocks. It measures approximately 45 feet by 140 feet and has a gabled, red tile roof installed in 1925. The church displays vernacular Gothic Revival and Romanesque Revival design elements. It features a bell and clock tower with its slate-shingled cone steeple, gabled vent dormers and Vendramini windows at cardinal points. The associated parsonage was built in 1881, and is a limestone rubble block building with segmental arched windows.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Dauphine Hotel . 2017-01-01. Noelle Soren. PDF. August 1981. Missouri Department of Natural Resources. (includes 11 photographs from 1980)