St. Louis, Besancon, Historic District

Historic church in Indiana, United States

United States historic place


St. Louis, Besancon, Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Front and eastern side of the church
41°3′3″N 84°56′20″W / 41.05083°N 84.93889°W / 41.05083; -84.93889
Area	10 acres (4.0 ha)
Built	1870 (1870)-1871, 1893, 1915
Architect	Frank Sallier
Architectural style	Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Queen Anne, Gothic
NRHP reference No.	95001112^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 22, 1995

St. Louis, Besancon, Historic District is a historic Roman Catholic church complex and national historic district located near New Haven in Jefferson Township, Allen County, Indiana. The district encompasses five contributing buildings and one contributing site consisting of the Saint Louis Besancon Roman Catholic Church and its cemetery and rectory. The Gothic Revival style church was built in 1870-71 of brick, fired in a nearby kiln, then covered with cement to give an appearance of stone. It features a steep gable roof and five part projecting square steeple. The rectory was built in 1893, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, Queen Anne style brick dwelling. The other contributing resources are the St. Louis Academy (1915), St. Louis Convent House (1915), garage (1940), and Old St. Louis Cemetery.^[2] The church was refurbished and painted in 1998.

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved July 1, 2015. Note: This includes Phyllis G. Brockmyer and St. Louis Historical Association (July 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: St. Louis, Besancon, Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved July 1, 2015. and Accompanying photographs and map.