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DeCurtins
The DeCurtins family, sometimes written De Curtins, were involved in Midwestern U.S. church architecture. Anton De Curtins (J. A. De Curtins) was a Swiss people, Swiss immigrant who lived in Carthagena, Ohio and designed several Gothic Revival architecture churches in Mercer County, Ohio, as well as rectories, schools and residences. Anton was a master carpenter, and with his sons he directed the building and decorating of the steepled churches that "still shine across the surrounding flatness of the Northwestern Ohio landscape". Anton designed St. Aloysius' Catholic Church (Carthagena, Ohio), St. Aloysius' Catholic Church in Carthagena, one of Swiss missionary priest Francis de Sales Brunner's churches for German Catholics in far western Ohio's Land of the Cross-tipped Churches.Marilyn Joyce Segal ChiatAmerica's religious architecture: sacred places for every communityPreservation Press Series Edition illustrated Publisher John Wiley and Sons, 1997 . 465 pages, page 102 Anton's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church Complex
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church is a parish of the Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church in Celina, Ohio, Celina, Ohio, United States. Founded later than many other Catholic parishes in the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches, heavily Catholic region of western Ohio, it owns a complex of buildings constructed in the early 20th century that have been designated historic sites because of their architecture. Leading among them is its massive church (building), church, built in the Romanesque Revival architecture, Romanesque Revival style just 43 years after the first Catholic moved into the city: it has been called northwestern Ohio's grandest church building. Parish history Catholics were active in southern Mercer County, Ohio, Mercer County by the 1830s; St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Maria Stein, Ohio), St. John the Baptist parish in Maria Stein, Ohio, Maria Stein and St. Rose's Catholic Church (St. Rose, Ohio), St. Rose parish in St. Rose, Ohio, St. Rose were estab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
