1909

Parish created by Archbishop Henry Moeller and named for his predecessor. Land originally part of St. Lawrence parish.

1910

Temporary, one-story church built on donated property.

1912

School built.

1931

Current Romanesque Revival church completed. Designed by Joseph G. Steinkamp and Bro. Architects and Superintendents, it features an Ohio sandstone exterior and red tile roof with a square bell tower. Fifty-six feet tall, the nave is more than twice that in length.

1941

Cincinnati painter and Price Hill resident Gerhard Lamers decorated walls damaged by a fire and used his wife as the model for Mary in Annunciation painted on the arch in front of the fresco. The painted dome in the convent chapel was the last of his career; he was 90 when he finished.

“I think St. William is the prettiest church in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati! There is something to see everywhere you look. My favorite detail is two carved heads high in the back two corners: St. John Vianney, patron of priests, and St. Therese of Lisieux, patron of missions.” – Ann Andriacco, parishioner and church tour leader

“Most columns are cut in pieces and assembled; ours are one piece, the tallest one-piece columns in any church I know of. One got loose on the way from Italy and almost took down the ship. When they arrived in Cincinnati, traffic had to be stopped to get them up the hill in carts.” – Ann Andriacco, parishioner and church tour leader

Semidome in the apse features a massive fresco of Christ as Pantocrator (King) in the Byzantine tradition, surrounded by the Apostles, a choir of angels and trees common in the Holy Land.

Two-sided crucifix carved in Italy hangs above the transept. Christ (dressed as a deacon) faces the pews and Mary faces the sanctuary; matching statues of Mary and Christ the King are in niches at the back of the nave.