St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church (Newark, Delaware)

	St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, Newark DE, April 2010
Location	200 E. Main St, Newark, Delaware
Coordinates	39°41′02″N 75°44′43″W / 39.683896°N 75.745276°W
Area	0.7 acres (0.28 ha)
Built	1883
Architectural style	Romanesque, Vernacular Romanesque
MPS	Newark MRA
NRHP reference No.	82002349
Added to NRHP	May 7, 1982

St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church at 200 E. Main Street in Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. The first congregants of the church were Irish immigrants. The church was dedicated on June 24, 1883,^[2] replacing the previous structure built in the late 18th century, after the floor collapsed on Christmas Eve of 1880. The church building is a one-story rectangular brick building with a central tower and three bays on the south front facade.^[3]^[4]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

It is maintained and directed by the parish of St. John the Baptist-Holy Angels which houses another worship site at 82 Possum Park Road in Newark.^[5]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ "Parish History - St. John the Baptist-Holy Angels Parish, Newark, DE". Retrieved 15 January 2012.
^ Valerie Cesna; Betsy Bahr (December 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church". National Park Service. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
^ National Registry of Historic Places photos
^ "St. John the Baptist-Holy Angels Parish". Retrieved 15 January 2012.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[2] "Parish History - St. John the Baptist-Holy Angels Parish, Newark, DE". Retrieved 15 January 2012.

[nom-3] Valerie Cesna; Betsy Bahr (December 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church". National Park Service. Retrieved 2010-04-20.

[4] National Registry of Historic Places photos

[5] "St. John the Baptist-Holy Angels Parish". Retrieved 15 January 2012.

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