Old Santa Rosa Catholic Church and Cemetery
Old Santa Rosa Catholic Church and Cemetery | |
 Old Santa Rosa Cemetery | |
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| Location | Main St., Cambria, California |
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| Coordinates | 35°33′58″N 121°04′53″W / 35.56611°N 121.08139°W |
| Area | 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) |
| Built | 1870–71 |
| NRHP reference No. | 82000990[1] |
| Added to NRHP | October 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]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ 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.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Santa Rosa Cemetery at 35°33′59″N 121°04′49″W / 35.56639°N 121.08028°W
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Old Santa Rosa Catholic Church and Cemetery.
- Photos from the NRHP nomination
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Old Santa Rosa Catholic Church
- Old Santa Rosa Catholic Church and Cemetery at Find a Grave
- Old Santa Rosa Chapel, photo gallery at Flickr
Categories:
- Churches in San Luis Obispo County, California
- Cambria, California
- Roman Catholic churches in California
- Roman Catholic cemeteries in California
- Roman Catholic churches completed in 1871
- National Register of Historic Places in San Luis Obispo County, California
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in California
- Neoclassical architecture in California
- 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States
- Cemeteries in San Luis Obispo County, California
- Neoclassical church buildings in the United States
- Cemeteries established in the 1870s