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St. Mary's on the Flats, originally known as the Church of Our Lady of the Lake, [1]: 34–35 [2]: 8 was the first Catholic church building in Cleveland, Ohio.The location where the church once stood can be found, in an 1881 atlas, [3] at the south-east corner of Columbus Ave. and then Girard Ave. on the east bank of the Cuyahoga river in the flats.
When Rappe took office, the diocese contained 42 churches and 21 priests; the first and only Catholic church in Cleveland was St. Mary's on the Flats. [6] He soon established the city's first parochial school, which doubled as a chapel. [7] Rappe purchased an episcopal residence in 1848.
The congregation was founded in 1881 as a mission of Ohio City, Cleveland's St. Mary's on-the-Flats to serve a growing German immigrant population on Cleveland's west side. The original church and school building were constructed in 1883 but burned on June 29, 1891, while the new building was under construction.
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Location of St. Mary's County in Maryland. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Mary's County, Maryland. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in St. Mary's County, Maryland, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
A small group of Irish settlers established St. Mary's of the Flats in 1826. The congregation met in several locations before beginning construction on its own sanctuary in 1837. [1] When Pope Pius IX established the Diocese of Cleveland in 1847, he named Louis Amadeus Rappe as its first bishop.
St. Mary's congregation's first priest was Polish. But after he departed, trouble arose when the Diocese of Scranton appointed, not once, but twice, a Lithuanian priest to St. Mary's. The Poles objected on the grounds that their greater number, earlier arrival and greater financial contribution entitled them to preference.
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church is a historic church at 320 Middle Avenue in Elyria, Ohio. It was built in 1883 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. References