St Thomas Roman Catholic Church and Howard-Flaget House

  • Also Known As: Bishop's Chapel and House

  • Address: 3 mi S of Bardstown off US 31E
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1800/00/00 Howard-Flaget House is built for Thomas Howard, a farmer, and his wife Ann Gough, 1795-1800.
1810/00/00 Thomas Howard and his wife Ann Gough will their 340-acre farm to the Bardstown Diocese.
1811/00/00 Benedict Joseph Flaget Vocation Bishop Flaget and Father David set up the seminary in the log house built in 1795 by Thomas Howard. They remained in this log house until a larger brick seminary was built in order to house the greater number of students
1813/00/00 Benedict Joseph Flaget Vocation John Rogers is dispatched from Baltimore by Bishop Benedict Flaget as early as 1812-1813 to help design and build a small Gothic Chapel at Saint Thomas Seminary in Bardstown.
1813/00/00 John Rogers (architect) Architect John Rogers is dispatched from Baltimore by Bishop Benedict Flaget as early as 1812-1813 to help design and build a small Gothic Chapel at Saint Thomas Seminary in Bardstown.
1816/00/00 Maximilian Godefroy Architect Built in 1816, St Thomas Church stands today as the oldest brick Roman Catholic Church in the diocese of Bardstown and in the English-speaking settlements of the Alleghenies.
1819/00/00 St Thomas becomes a preparatory seminary and the main seminary activities are moved to St Josephs in Bardstown.
1869/00/00 St Thomas preparatory seminary remained in operation until 1869 when all of the students were removed to the main seminary.

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Particulars for St Thomas Roman Catholic Church and Howard-Flaget House:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Area of Significance Education
Area of Significance Exploration-settlement
Architectural Style Greek Revival
Criteria Historic Event
Owner Private
Area of Significance Religion
Historic Use Religious Property
Historic Use Single dwelling
Area of Significance Social History



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 76000931
Resource Type:
Owner: Private
Architect: Godefroy,Maximilien
Architectural Style: Greek revival
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: State
Area of Significance: Exploration-settlement, Education, Architecture, Religion, Social history
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Criteria Consideration: Religious property
Period of Significance: 1800-1824, 1750-1799
Significant Year: 1795, 1800, 1816
Historic Function: Domestic, Religion
Historic Sub-Function: Religious structure, Single dwelling
Current Function: Vacant, not in use, Religion
Current Sub-Function: Religious structure

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