Old Santa Rosa Catholic Church and Cemetery

Last updated
Old Santa Rosa Catholic Church and Cemetery
Old Santa Rosa Cemetery 2.jpg
Old Santa Rosa Cemetery
USA California location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Usa edcp location map.svg
Red pog.svg
LocationMain St., Cambria, California
Coordinates 35°33′58″N121°04′53″W / 35.56611°N 121.08139°W / 35.56611; -121.08139 Coordinates: 35°33′58″N121°04′53″W / 35.56611°N 121.08139°W / 35.56611; -121.08139
Area2.5 acres (1.0 ha)
Built1870–71
NRHP reference No. 82000990 [1]
Added to NRHPOctober 29, 1982

The Old Santa Rosa Catholic Church and Cemetery is a historic church building and cemetery on Main Street in Cambria, San Luis Obispo County, California. Built from 1870 to 1871, the church was the first in Cambria and is one of the oldest remaining buildings in the town. The church has a simple Classical Revival design with clapboard siding, a gable roof, a boxed cornice and frieze, and an arched entrance topped with a fanlight. The church's cemetery is behind the church building. [2] [3]

The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1982. [1]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St. Mary's Church and Cemetery (Crompton, Rhode Island)</span> Historic church and cemetery in Kent County, Rhode Island, US

St. Mary's Church and Cemetery is a historic Roman Catholic church building and cemetery in Crompton, a village of West Warwick, Rhode Island.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Southampton Baptist Church and Cemetery</span> Historic site in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, US

Southampton Baptist Church and Cemetery is a historic Baptist church and cemetery in Southampton, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1772, and substantially enlarged in 1814. It is a two-story, stuccoed stone meeting house style building with a steep gable roof. The property includes the church cemetery, which has burials for 24 veterans of the American Revolution.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St. Patrick's Catholic Church (Glynwood, Ohio)</span> United States historic place

St. Patrick's Church is an historic Roman Catholic church in Glynwood, an unincorporated community in Moulton Township, Auglaize County, Ohio, United States. Located north of U.S. Route 33 between St. Marys and Wapakoneta, the church was built in 1883 in the Gothic Revival style. It is one of many large Catholic churches in a region of rural western Ohio known as the "Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches," which was settled by primarily Catholic immigrants during the nineteenth century.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St. Anthony's Catholic Church (Padua, Ohio)</span> United States historic place

St. Anthony's Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church in Padua, an unincorporated community in Washington Township, Mercer County, Ohio, United States. Built in the late nineteenth century, it remains the home of a functioning congregation, and it has been recognized as a historically significant building because of its architecture.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mammoth Cave Baptist Church and Cemetery</span> Historic site in Mammoth Cave National Park

Mammoth Cave Baptist Church and Cemetery is a historic church in Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. It was built in 1827 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sharon Lutheran Church and Cemetery</span> Historic site in Bland County, Virginia, US

Sharon Lutheran Church and Cemetery is a historic Lutheran church and cemetery located near Ceres, Bland County, Virginia. The church was built in 1883, and is a one-story, frame church, four bays long, with round-arched, stained-glass windows and a gable roof. It features a projecting square tower with a bell-cast pyramidal roof and cross finial on the entrance facade. The adjacent cemetery was established in 1817, and includes a collection of rare Germanic gravestones which are stylistically related to those found in the outlying churches of the Wythe County German settlements.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Egypt, Ohio</span>

Egypt is an unincorporated community in western Jackson Township, Auglaize County, Ohio, United States. Located at 40°23′8″N84°25′59″W, the community sits at an elevation of 971 feet (296 m), approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) west of the village of Minster.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kingston Presbyterian Church Cemetery</span> Historic cemetery in Horry County, South Carolina, US

Kingston Presbyterian Church Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at Conway in Horry County, South Carolina. It contains fine examples of Victorian-era funerary art, especially those in the Beaty family plot. Portions of the cemetery site were first the old Kingston "burying ground", established about 1737, and burials continued until 1909. It is co-located with the Kingston Presbyterian Church, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St. Rose's Catholic Church (St. Rose, Ohio)</span> United States historic place

St. Rose's Catholic Church is a historic Catholic church in St. Rose, an unincorporated community in Marion Township, Mercer County, Ohio, United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cross Roads Presbyterian Church and Cemetery and Stainback Store</span> Historic site in Alamance County, North Carolina, US

Cross Roads Presbyterian Church and Cemetery and Stainback Store are historic buildings near Mebane, Alamance County, North Carolina. The church was built in 1876, and is a 1 1/2-story, brick vernacular church building. The Stainback Store, across from the church, was built about 1888, and is a simple two-story gable front frame structure built from materials of the original church building and session house from about 1792. Located near the church is the contributing cemetery established about 1792.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Revloc Historic District</span> Historic district in Pennsylvania, United States

Revloc Historic District is a national historic district located at Cambria Township in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 203 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing structure. The district consists of residential areas and utilitarian industrial buildings associated with the Monroe Coal Mining Company and developed between 1917 and 1944. The mine was serviced by the Cambria and Indiana Railroad. Notable buildings include a variety of brick and frame miners' housing, stone company store (1918), payroll office, company boiler house, supply house, machine and blacksmith shop, Revloc Presbyterian Church (1923), Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church (1924), and Revloc School.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Johnstown Flood Museum</span>

The Johnstown Flood Museum is a history museum located in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, dedicated to the Johnstown Flood of 1889. The museum is housed in the former Cambria Public Library, which is part of the Downtown Johnstown Historic District.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Downtown Johnstown Historic District</span> Historic district in Pennsylvania, United States

Downtown Johnstown Historic District is a national historic district located at Johnstown in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 109 contributing buildings, 4 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Johnstown. The district includes some buildings dated before the Johnstown Flood, but the majority date from 1890 to 1930. Notable buildings include the Alma Hall (1884), Bantley Building (1888), Stenger Dry Goods Store (1883), Widmann Building (1892), Cambria Iron Office Building, St. Vincent DePaul Building, Swank Building (1907), Glosser Brothers Department Store (1905), Johnstown City Hall (1900), former U.S. Post Office (1912), State Theater (1926), U.S. Post Office (1938), Franklin Street United Methodist Church (1869), St. John Gualbert Cathedral (1896), First United Methodist Church (1911), Elks Building (1903), and Moose Building (1917). Located in the district and listed separately are the Cambria Public Library Building, G.A.R. Hall, and Nathan's Department Store.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cambria City Historic District</span> Historic district in Pennsylvania, United States

Cambria City Historic District is a national historic district located at Johnstown in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 198 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in a predominantly working-class residential area of Johnstown. Though predominantly residential, it also includes a small business district and industrial buildings such as a former brewery, bottling plant, and slaughter house, along with a notable collection of churches, schools, and fire station. The district includes some buildings dated before the Johnstown Flood, but the majority date from 1890 to 1920. Notable buildings include the collection of two-story, balloon frame, detached and semi-detached dwellings, Fifth Avenue Hotel (1889), Pollack Building (1905), former Cambria Fire Hose and Ladder Company (1890), former Germana Brewery (1907), August and Louisa Mayer Building (1907), Tulip Bottling Company (1913-1949), St. Casimer's Polish Church (1907), Immaculate Conception Church (1908), St. Stephen's Slovak Church (1914), St. Columba Church (1914), St. Mary's Greek Catholic Church (1922), Venue Of Merging Arts, Hungarian Reformed Church (1902), and First Catholic Slovak Band Hall (1913-1949). The contributing structure is the Minersville Bridge (1914).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St. Benedict's Catholic Church (Nebraska City, Nebraska)</span> Historic church in Nebraska, United States

St. Benedict's Catholic Church is a Catholic church in Nebraska City, Nebraska, United States. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. The church parish was founded in 1856 and its building, completed in 1861, is the oldest brick church in the state of Nebraska. The church's address is 411 5th Rue, Nebraska City, Nebraska.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Our Savior's Scandinavian Lutheran Church</span> Historic church in Ward County, North Dakota

Our Savior's Scandinavian Lutheran Church, also known as Our Savior's Lutheran Church or Our Savior's Evangelical Lutheran Church is located in Ward County, North Dakota. It is situated one mile north of State Route #50 and one quarter mile west of Ward County Highway #1 near Coulee, Mountrail County, North Dakota. The church and its cemetery were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kimberling Lutheran Cemetery</span> Historic site in Wythe County, Virginia, US

Kimberling Lutheran Cemetery is a historic Lutheran cemetery and national historic district located near Rural Retreat, Wythe County, Virginia. The cemetery includes approximately about 50 early Germanic sandstone monuments dating from 1800 to 1850. The associated Kimberlin Lutheran Church was built in 1913, and is a large frame structure with two unequal-sized towers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Reaville, New Jersey</span> Unincorporated community in New Jersey, United States

Reaville is an unincorporated community located along the border of East Amwell and Raritan townships in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. By the 1830s, it was known as Greenville. It was later renamed after Runkle Rea, the first postmaster in 1850.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bevans, New Jersey</span> Unincorporated community in New Jersey, United States

Bevans, also known as Peters Valley, is an unincorporated community located at the intersection of Bevans Road, Walpack Road, and Kuhn Road in Sandyston Township of Sussex County, New Jersey. The village is now part of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Both the Delaware River and the Old Mine Road are nearby.

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Newman, Clementine M. (March 24, 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Old Santa Rosa Catholic Church and Cemetery". National Park Service . Retrieved April 23, 2013.
  3. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Santa Rosa Cemetery at 35°33′59″N121°04′49″W / 35.56639°N 121.08028°W


Old Santa Rosa Catholic Church, 2021 Old Santa Rosa Catholic Church Exterior.jpg
Old Santa Rosa Catholic Church, 2021