DeCurtins

{{short description|American architect}}

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The DeCurtins family, sometimes written De Curtins, were involved in Midwestern U.S. church architecture. Anton De Curtins (J. A. De Curtins) was a Swiss immigrant who lived in Carthagena, Ohio and designed several Gothic Revival architecture churches in Mercer County, Ohio, as well as rectories, schools and residences. Anton was a master carpenter, and with his sons he directed the building and decorating of the steepled churches that "still shine across the surrounding flatness of the Northwestern Ohio landscape".

Anton designed St. Aloysius' Catholic Church in Carthagena, one of Swiss missionary priest Francis de Sales Brunner's churches for German Catholics in far western Ohio's Land of the Cross-tipped Churches.Marilyn Joyce Segal Chiat [https://books.google.com/books?id=I0GviYfRKOsC&dq=DeCurtins+architect&pg=PA102 America's religious architecture: sacred places for every community] Preservation Press Series Edition illustrated Publisher John Wiley and Sons, 1997 {{ISBN|978-0-471-14502-8}}. 465 pages, page 102

Anton's grandson Frederick designed Immaculate Conception High School (1933) in Celina, Ohio.Virginia Evans McCormick [https://books.google.com/books?id=PxwCLqaGl6YC&dq=DeCurtins+architect&pg=PA112 Educational architecture in Ohio: from one-room schools and Carnegie libraries to community education villages] Edition illustrated Publisher Kent State University Press, 2001 {{ISBN|978-0-87338-666-1}}. 318 pages,

page 112, 113 (photo of school)

Projects by Anton DeCurtins (J.A. DeCurtins)

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  • St. Aloysius' Catholic Church, a Gothic Revival architecture style building in Mercer County added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 [http://www.historicdistricts.com/oh/Mercer/state.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927163111/http://www.historicdistricts.com/oh/Mercer/state.html |date=2011-09-27 }} St. Aloysius Catholic Church ** (added 1979 - Building - #79002824)

OH 274 and OH 127, Carthagena National Register of Historic Places OHIO - Mercer County and St. Joseph Catholic Church and Rectory,

Andrew DeCurtins

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