Constructed by Irish immigrants who settled in 1795 in Donegal Township across the nearby Butler County line, St. Patrick's may be the oldest Roman Catholic church in western Pennsylvania. Using squared logs and V-shaped notching at the corners, the simple rectangular, gable-roofed structure
Lu Donnelly et al., "St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church", [Worthington, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-AR6.
Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 191-192.
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