page_title: Immaculate Conception Catholic Church (Botkins, Ohio)
section_title: School
hierarchical_section_title: Immaculate Conception Catholic Church (Botkins, Ohio) / School
caption_attribution_description: English: Site of the Botkins Elementary School, a former Catholic school located along N. Main Street in Botkins, Ohio, United States, viewed from its western end. Now a parking lot, the school that once occupied the site was built in 1921. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a part of the Cross-Tipped Churches of Ohio Thematic Resources. Despite having been destroyed, the school remains still listed on the Register. Botkins' public school, located along N. Sycamore Street, is visible in the distance.
context_page_description: Immaculate Conception Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic parish in Botkins, Ohio, United States. Erected in 1865, the parish owns a complex of buildings constructed in a wide range of years, including two that have been designated as historic sites.
context_section_description: Many parishes in the region also operated parish schools from their earliest years.  Some rural parishes, such as St. Rose's in St. Rose and St. Wendelin's in Wendelin, built one-room schools for their children in the middle or late nineteenth century, while parishes such as St. Joseph's in Wapakoneta and St. John's in Fryburg erected larger two-story structures around the beginning of the twentieth century.  Immaculate Conception's school was founded in 1881, when the parish purchased a church building formerly used by the Botkins Methodist Church.  In 1883, the school's enrollment was ninety-three children: forty-nine boys and forty-four girls.  A new parish school building was erected in 1921, adjacent to the church.  This building was built of brick and supported by a concrete foundation; it was a two-story building with a basement; among its most significant architectural features were the pillars at its entrance and the sharp contrasts at corners between walls.  In this way, it was similar to parish schools at Celina and Coldwater, which were architecturally very similar to Botkins and to each other, and which were erected at a similar point in time.
caption: Parking lot on the site of the school
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