St. Monica in Clifton at 328 W. McMillan. The last non-postcard image is a modern day view of the church.
St. Monica Interior Fairview Heights
The Exeter Minstrels
in
"A Southern Plantation Holiday"
St. Patrick's.
Northside
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3rd & Mill Streets
St. Patrick's Church was built in 1873 at 1663 Blue Rock. The school was closed in 1969 and the church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 1978. Around 1991 the church was closed. The 1st non-postcard image above was added to show that the residence next door is also still standing.
St. Paul's
Methodist
St. Paul's Wayside Church
The church shown in the last non-postcard image is located at 835 Lind St. and shows the church as it looks today.
St. Peter & Paul Church Vine & Church Streets.
Reading, Ohio
The 3rd image above is a present day photograph of the church.
St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral. Seventh and Plum
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Madisonville
St. Paul's Catholic Church and School
This St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church was erected in 1849 at the corner of East 12th & Spring Sts. It was dedicated January 20, 1850 by German Catholics from the old St. Mary's Church who lived east of Clay Street. St. Paulus Kirche was the 9th Catholic Church in Cincinnati. A fire in 1899 destroyed all but the church walls and the stained glass windows. It was reconstructed and dedicated on October 7, 1900. Deconsecrated in 1974 it was named to the National Register of Historic Places the same year. Threatened with demolition in 1981 the Verdin Company bought the building and converted it into St. Paul's Church Mart, a unique display and sales center for church goods which draws people from across the nation. Sometime after the first card was produced the name of Spring Street was changed to Pendleton Street and now the building's address is 1117 Pendleton Street.
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I. T. Verdin Co. 2021 Eastern Ave.
The Verdin Company has been in business in Cincinnati since 1842 and is one of the worlds leading bell and clock manufacturers. Their clock and bell installations can be found at 300 colleges and over 20,000 churches around the world. The largest free swinging bell in the world, the Newport Peace Bell was produced by Verdin.
ST. PETER'S CATHEDRAL
Built in 1841-45. It was restored in 1953-57 and is across the street from City Hall on Plum Street which can be seen in the last present day photo.
St. Peters Church
Main and McMicken
SS. PETER AND PAUL // HOLY TRINITY NORWOOD
The Holy Trinity parish dates
back to 1884 when St. Elizabeth was founded as Norwood's first Catholic Church.
In 1905 the Archdiocese of Cincinnati established St. Matthew church and Sts.
Peter & Paul church. Permanent facilities were built for St. Matthew in 1922
and for Sts. Peter & Paul in 1940.
The SS Peter and Paul church above was dedicated on July
21, 1907 on Montgomery Road. This small church seated 350 people. 26 children
held classes in 3 small rooms at the back of the church. All three Norwood
churches operated their own grammar schools. In 1974, St. Elizabeth and St.
Matthew schools combined to form Gressle School that was located at the St.
Matthew location. In the early 1980s, Sts. Peter & Paul School closed and
joined the Gressle School.
The Archdiocese of Cincinnati decided to combine all three parishes
into one due to declining enrollment in 1991. It was decided that the Sts. Peter
& Paul property was best suited to meet the needs of the new parish. In
addition to the new parish, Gressle School was renamed Holy Trinity School and
moved to the former Sts. Peter & Paul School buildings. (see 1st
photographic image below) at the corner of Drex and Moeller Aves. . In 2007 Holy
Trinity School combined with St. John the Evangalist and renamed it St. Nicholas
Academy and was located at St. John the Evangalist. In 2010 they then combined
with Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (OLSH) and is now located at OLSH's campus.
Holy Trinity School
Holy Trinity church is located on the corner of Montgomery Road and Drex Ave. The next 5 images are extra large postcards. Each of the churches towers are dedicated to the Sts. Peter & Paul. The figures of Sts. Peter & Paul guard either side of the entrance. The church was dedicated on June 30, 1940. The left and right altar pieces below form what is referred to as a triptych, an altarpiece in 3 parts. The two wings are designed to form shutters which may be closed over the central altar during Passion-tide. Designed in 1941 the Christmas Crib is considered the most beautiful and most complete Crib in the United States. For instance it is the only Crib in the world where the Magi and their attendants wear Phrygion cloaks and helmets.
Holy
Trinity Left
Altarpiece
Main
Altar
Right Altarpiece
Christmas Crib
Present day photograph
St. Vincent De Paul Liston Ave. Riverside
The "new" St. Vincent De Paul drawing shown in the first card above does not look at all like the actual church in the second card. Anyone familiar with what happened? Are the last two images the new version of a missing middle version? The last view is not a postcard.
St. Rosa. 2501 Eastern Avenue. East
end
As you can see in the 4th card above St. Rosa Church is situated right next to the Ohio River. Over the years the church has been flooded many times. On the back wall of the church is painted the flood gauge you see in the first photo below. At the top of this gauge is where the flood of 1937 crested. The church was built in 1867 and is still active today. On April 1, 1982 the church was added to the National Register of Historical Places.
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1937 Flood Gauge
St. Stephen Church Eastern & Donham
Aves. Columbia
The 3rd view above is a photo of the church as it looks today.
Thanks to Scott Kabakoff
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St.
Williams. Price Hill
The New St. Williams
The 1st card above is of the St. William Church Dedicated on May 22, 1910 at the corner of Sunset Ave. & West 8th St. in Price Hill. The congregation , largely German and Irish immigrants, experienced exceptional growth and by 1931 they needed a much bigger church. The new church was constructed in 1931 at 1401 W. Eighth Street. This church includes a parish house, Sisters' residence, and a community center. This was a massive undertaking during the depression and it cost so much the parish went deeply into debt ($462,000). In order to pay this debt off the Rev. Francis Reardon started, what is believed to be the very first bingo games sponsored by a church. These games became so popular that people came from as far away as Indianapolis to play. From 20 to 25 street cars would be seen lined up after the games were over to take people home. The last non-postcard image above shows the church as it looks today.
Below is something very hard to find. It shows a little of how a postcard is produced. When the church wanted to have some postcards made of the Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto that was located outside, by the street, they had the photographers Rombach & Groene take the 8" x 10" photograph seen in the 1st image. Then whoever was in charge of the project used white out to show the rough outline of the top of the card. He (or she) also marked where he wanted the sides to be. They then sent this along with the attached note to the Asheville Postcard Co. in Asheville, North Carolina. This note states where they wanted the title and what the title should say. They then stated that they wanted 1000 black and white cards. This was obviously changed later to color. The note also states that they wanted sky where the white was in the photograph. The 3rd image is the resulting postcard. The 4th image is a postcard produced by the Albertype Postcard Co. They obviously had different instructions.
St. Xavier Church
St. Xavier Church was originally built at Liberty and Vine Sts. because anti-Catholic sentiment prevented it being constructed closer to the center of the city. In 1825 members defiantly put the church frame on wheels and rolled it down to its present location at 607 Sycamore St. The original location is now the St. Francis Church in Over-the-Rhine.
St. Xavier Harrison
Our Lady of Victories
Delhi
In 1834 the German Catholics of Delhi started Maria Zum Siege parish on donated property on Rapid Run Road. In 1852 the parish moved into a log building at 810 Neeb Rd. This congregation later became Our Lady of Victories and built a new church and school buildings in 1852, 1909, and 1980.
Prince of Peace Lutheran Ch.
Loveland
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Sacred Heart Italian Catholic Church, (1st card) and Sacred Heart Home, (4th card), Both were located on Broadway between 4th & 5th Sts. The 3rd card is the Lourdes Shrine in the church at 527 Broadway.
Interior of Sacred Heart Church
Marshall Avenue
Sharonville Church of God.
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