The Church of the Holy Angels, Dayton

The Church of the Holy Angels in South Dayton was established in December 1901 by Archbishop Henry Elder to serve employees of the National Cash Register company. The parish was founded during a period when Protestant churches were actively recruiting workers through various community activities and classes.

The parish initially operated out of a 200 seat wooden church on Stewart Street. In 1906, the structure was moved to land donated by the Society of Mary at Brown and L Streets. The first pastor, Fr. Martin B. Neville, expanded the site by adding a school and a belltower.

The current stone church, designed by the Boston firm Maginnis and Walsh in the Norman Gothic style, opened in 1927. The building features a flat facade, a square lantern tower, solid buttresses, and Gothic spires. While the interior decorations were not finished until 1944, the parish reached a peak of 8,500 parishioners by 1967.