EXISISTO PARATUS BE PREPARED N E M A T. I R I P S I N Y L N O O H M E I H N T E F P O A T D R N I A S , , E N T O S F E IL H I I T , E F T O S D P N I R A I T , R U E S H S T A A N F C E T H I . T A F M O West Side Trails E E N M A N Parish Information and Photos E H T N I BENE AMBULA ET REDAMBULA A SAFE JOURNEY TO YOU Archdisoces of Cincinnati - Catholic Committee on Scouting Th is document was researched from the following sources; • Th e History of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati 1821-1921 by the Rev. John H. Lamott S.T.D. • Th e UsGenWeb Project - Profi les of Roman Catholic Parishes in Cincinnati and Hamilton County http://rootsweb.ances- try.com/~ohhamilt/catholic/parish1.html • Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788-1912, Vol. 1, • Th e parish websites of the included parishes Th e photos contained here comes from a variety of sources including the following; • Th e Greater Cincinnati Memory Project http://www.cincinnatimemory.org/ • Th e Cincinnati Historical Library and Archives http://library.cincymuseum.org/ • Greetings from Cincinnati http://www.cincinnativiews.net/churches_5.htm • Th e parish websites of the included parishes Version 1.0 - September 30, AD 2013 WEST SIDE TRAILS | 3 Table of Contents 1 West Side Trail Parish Information and Photos St. Aloysius Gonzaga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 & 5 St. Antoninus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 & 7 St. Catharine of Siena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 & 9 Holy Family. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 & 11 St. Jude (Bridgetown) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 & 13 Our Lady of Lourdes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 & 15 Our Lady of Visitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 & 17 St. Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 & 19 St. Martin of Tours (Cheviot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 & 21 Mount Saint Mary’s of the West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 & 23 Mount Saint Mary’s Training School for Girls, Convent of the Good Shepherd . 22 & 23 Resurrection of Our Lord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 & 25 St. Teresa of Avila . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 & 27 St. William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 & 29 2 West Side Trail Directions and Maps West Side Trail - South Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 & 31 Preliminary West Side Trail - North Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Preliminary West Side Trail - 20 Mile Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 3 Trail Patch & Order Form Trail Patch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Order Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 4 | PARISH INFORMATION AND PHOTOS St. Aloysius Gonzaga St. Aloysius Gonzaga parish was founded in 1866 by a group of German Catholics. Th e fi rst church building was dedicat- Address: 4366 Bridgetown Rd., Cincinnati, Ohio 45211 ed in 1868 and included a school, church, priest’s residence, and a teacher’s residence. Telephone: (513) 574-4840 Th e parish grew through the remainder of the 19th century, E-mail: [email protected] and its expansion intensifi ed at the turn of the century with Web Site: http://www.saintals.org population growth and the extension of streetcar lines into nearby Cheviot. Community: Bridgetown A second church was dedicated in 1914 and the original Status: Currently Active church was converted into classrooms in 1919. At that time Congregation Organized: 1867 St. Al’s operated a grade school and a commercial school for high school students that eventually closed with the opening Original Church Dedicated: November 3, 1868 of Elder and Seton high schools in 1927. Th e Sisters of St. New Church Dedicated: 1963 Francis from Oldenburg, Indiana, taught and administered at the school and resided in the convent on the parish property. Architect: L. P. Cotter and Associates Th e current school building was built in 1937, and additions Style: Modern were made in the 1940s and 1950s. Parent Parishes: St. John, Dry Ridge and Assumption, Mt. Th e opening of nearby parishes and schools helped allevi- Healthy ate crowded classrooms. Th e latest addition to the school was made in 1996 with the construction of the Monsignor Ethnicity: German Schmitt Hall gymnasium/multipurpose building. Renova- Bibliography: St. Aloysius, Bridgetown, History 1866-1941 tions continue as needed to keep the facility current for 21st century learning. Th e undercroft of the church was renovated University of Notre Dame Archives: Printed Parish History in 2006 into a state-of-the-art library and reading room. Th e Collection, Box 85 kindergarten was enlarged and renovated in 2010 WEST SIDE TRAILS | 5 St. Aloysius Gonzaga - Current Church St. Aloysius Gonzaga - Interior St. Aloysius Gonzaga - Altar 6 | PARISH INFORMATION AND PHOTOS St. Antoninus From Th e Parish webiste; On the night of May 5, 1944, Father Carl F. Goeckeler, pas- Address: 1500 Linneman Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45238- tor of St. Peter in Chains Cathedral, was asked by Arch- 1999 bishop John T. McNicholas to establish St. Antoninus Parish. Telephone: (513) 922-5400, Fax: (513) 451-5871 Th e new church was nearly complete at that time, and the Archbishop dedicated it and formally installed Father E-mail: [email protected] Goeckeler as pastor on June 25, 1944. Web Site: http://www.saintantoninus.org And so, as we say, “the rest is history.” Th e school was opened Community: Covedale in 1948 in a prefabricated building of four classrooms placed over a basement with four classrooms and restrooms. Do- Location: Julmar Dr. & Linneman Rd. minican Sisters from Adrian, MI, came to staff the school. Status: Currently Active Th e parish grew in size and vigor. A new school and convent Congregation Organized: 1944 building was dedicated on September 29, 1957. Father Goeckeler saw the need for a larger church, but the Arch- bishop would only permit the building of a basement church and rectory because of parish debt. Th e fi rst Mass was cel- ebrated in the basement church on January 12, 1963. Soon a new campaign began to add nine more classrooms to the school, a new auditorium/gymnasium, a library, and to add nine more rooms and a chapel to the Sister’s convent. Auxiliary Bishop Edward McCarthy, brother of the pres- ent pastor of St. Antoninus, dedicated the new facilities on November 30, 1966. WEST SIDE TRAILS | 7 St. Antoninus - Current Church St. Antoninus - Previous Church St. Antoninus - Current School St. Antoninus - Old School 8 | PARISH INFORMATION AND PHOTOS St. Catharine of Siena From the parish history booklet, http://www.stcatharine- siena.org/fi les/section1.pdf Address: (for mailing) P.O. Box 111115, Cincinnati, Ohio On the fi rst of January, Reverend Herman Ellerbrock, 45211-1115 the pastor of St. Aloysius Bridgetown, called a meeting of Church location: 2848 Fischer Place, Cincinnati, Ohio 45211 the Catholics of his parish who lived in Westwood for the purpose of organizing a new parish. Owing to the increasing Telephone: (513) 661-0651 number of Catholics in his congregation and the extent of its Web Site: http://www.stcatharinesiena.org territory it had become necessary to divide the parish. When Father Ellerbrock was ordained, he said his First Mass at the Community: Westwood tomb of St. Catharine of Siena, in Rome. From that time on, Location: Northwest corner of Fischer Place and Wunder his devotion to St. Catharine grew. Hence when it came time Ave. to name the new Catholic parish in Westwood, he asked the Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati for, and re- Status: Currently Active ceived, permission to name the new church St. Catharine of Congregation Organized: January 1, 1902 Siena. Th us, St. Catharine became the fi rst parish to break off from St. Aloysius in Bridgetown. She is the eldest daughter Original Church Dedicated: September 18, 1904 of the six parishes formed from St. Aloysius. New Church Dedicated: 1922 At the time of the dedication, the church stood in the Architect: Robert Crowe & Edward J. Schulte center of what was a cow pasture and the only building in the neighborhood was an old dairy farmhouse. Fischer Place Style: Romanesque Revival and Wunder Avenue then existed merely on paper. Th e only Parent Parishes: St. Aloysius in Bridgetown (St. Aloysius sidewalks were old planks covered with mud most of the Gonzaga) time. What is now Harrison Avenue and Fischer Place was a six-foot embankment, and on what is now Wunder Avenue was a gully 20 feet deep, spanned by a rustic bridge built by the men of the parish. WEST SIDE TRAILS | 9 St. Catherine of Siena - Current Church www.jeff sphotography.com St. Catherine of Siena - Old Church St. Catherine of Siena - Interior 10 | PARISH INFORMATION AND PHOTOS Holy Family Reverend John H. Menke was appointed as the fi rst pastor of Holy Family Church by Archbishop Elder. He served in this Address: 814 Hawthorne Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio 45205 capacity until he tendered his resignation on the advice of his physician on August 22, 1897, he died three months later. He Telephone: (513) 921- 7527 was succeeded as pastor by Father Alfred Drufner. Web Site: http://www.hfschool.org Library Hall on Price Avenue was purchased in 1905 and +Treasured Catholic Churches of Cincinnati: Holy Family the school classrooms were moved from the Church base- ment to the newly purchased building. Due to the rapid Community: East Price Hill growth of the parish, it became necessary to have the school Location: at West 8th St. building renovated. Upon completion Archbishop Moeller dedicated what has come to be known as Holy Family Status: Currently Active School on April 9, 1911. Th e Gymnasium Association took Congregation Organized: 1883 root and the space under the old school building was con- verted to a parish recreation center. Original Church Dedicated: August 24, 1884 As the parish continued to grow plans for a larger Church New Church Dedicated: 1915 were initiated by Father Drufner, who died suddenly in 1912 Architect: John P. Sheblessy before the completion of the new Church. Th e continuation of this task was then passed onto Father Anthony Runne- Style: Baroque Revival baum, appointed Pastor in 1912. Th e Holy Family Church Parent Parishes: St. Lawrence that stands today was dedicated by Archbishop Moeller on June 18, 1916, at a cost of $175,000.00. Notes: Th is parish was formed for the families of St. Law- rence living east of Elberon Avenue. Under the personal direction of Emil Frei the stained glass windows were created. Th e windows in the sanctuary depict Holy Family Church was dedicated on the 24th day of Au- the four great sacrifi ces of the Old Testament, the sacrifi ces gust, 1884. Th e total cost of the new Church was $8,060.61. of Abel, Noah, Isaac by Abraham, and Melchizedek. Th e Th e two room school and the pastor’s residence were located main windows, located in the body of the Church, picture the in the Church building. fi ve joyful mysteries and events in the life of the Holy Family.