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

St. George Parish and Newman Center
Location:Cincinnati, Ohio
Architecture:Romanesque
Added:March 3, 1980
Mpsub:Samuel Hannaford and Sons TR in Hamilton County
Coordinates:39.128°N -84.5123°W
Refnum:80003088

Old Saint George Church is a historic Catholic church in the Corryville 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. Construction costs totaled $80,000.[1]

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.

In August 2016, the church reopened as a satellite campus for Crossroads.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio: Their Past and Present. 1894. S. B. Nelson. 767.
  2. Web site: History of St. George . University of Cincinnati . December 30, 2013.
  3. Web site: Suess . Jeff . After the fire: Historic Corryville church resurrected . Cincinnati.com . 2016-09-16 . 2020-05-25.