DeCurtins

St. Anthony's Church

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 immigrant who lived in Carthagena, Ohio and designed several Gothic Revival architecture churches in Mercer County, Ohio, as well as rectories, schools and residences.[1] 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".[2]

Anton designed 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.[1]

Anton's grandson Frederick designed Immaculate Conception High School (1933) in Celina, Ohio.[2]

Projects by Anton DeCurtins (J.A. DeCurtins)

St. Henry's Church
Maria Stein's Church

Andrew DeCurtins

Immaculate Conception Church

DeCurtins

  • Chickasaw School and Rectory, also known as Precious Blood Catholic Rectory, Italianate style buildings on Maple Street in Chickasaw, Ohio that were added to the NRHP in 1979 as building #79002848.
  • Coldwater Catholic Church Complex, also known as Holy Trinity Catholic Church Complex, a Gothic and Renaissance Revival-style building at E. Main and 2nd Streets in Coldwater, Ohio. Added to the NRHP in 1979 as building #79002832.
  • St. Francis Catholic Church and Rectory, buildings in a Spanish Mission Revival and Gothic Revival architecture style at Cranberry and Ft. Recovery-Minster Road in Cranberry Prairie, Ohio. Added to the NRHP in 1979 as building #79002837.

References

  1. 1 2 Marilyn Joyce Segal Chiat America's religious architecture: sacred places for every community Preservation Press Series Edition illustrated Publisher John Wiley and Sons, 1997 ISBN 978-0-471-14502-8. 465 pages, page 102
  2. 1 2 Virginia Evans McCormick Educational architecture in Ohio: from one-room schools and Carnegie libraries to community education villages Edition illustrated Publisher Kent State University Press, 2001 ISBN 978-0-87338-666-1. 318 pages, page 112, 113 (photo of school)
  3. ↑ St. Aloysius Catholic Church ** (added 1979 - Building - #79002824) OH 274 and OH 127, Carthagena National Register of Historic Places OHIO - Mercer County and St. Joseph Catholic Church and Rectory,
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