The Choir of the Pro-Cathedral of Saint Mary poses with director Father Francis A. Missia outside the northeast door of the church. Mrs. Grace Long stands in the front row, 6th from the left.
Panoramic photograph of the students of the Basilica School, grades 1 through 8. The children are posed on the south side steps of the school building.
Prelates gather during Solemn Pontifical Mass in connection with the Consecration of the Basilica of Saint Mary. Archbishop John Gregory Murray, celebrant, flanked by other higher ranking clergy, reverences the altar.
During renovation work on the Basilica, workers hung lines from the front edifice and used these to reach stonework around the rose window for tuckpointing and other repairs.
In the pulpit, Archbishop John Gregory Murray preaches his first Pontifical Mass at the Basilica. Assisting were Father James Reardon (rector), Father Thomas Cullen (former rector).
Consecration of the altar of the shrine of St. Anthony. Consecrator Bishop James Morrison, Bishop of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, is assisted by Father Thomas J. McNamara.
Interior view of sanctuary during Consecration Mass of the Basilica of Saint Mary. Banners for the Ninth National Eucharistic Congress bedeck the pillars and baldachin.
Church and rectory seen through trees along 16th Street North. Noted on reverse by the rector, "The New Look" - probably refers to recent work cleaning the stone and retuckpointing.
View from Hennepin Avenue of the church, hung with banners for the Ninth National Eucharistic Congress on the day of its Consecration. Father Hennepin Memorial is obscured by a tree.
The vested Basilica Boys' Choir stands and sings carols before the 5:00 a.m. Mass on Christmas morning. Choir director and organist George Bussman plays a small portable organ just outside the sacristy rail. Boys pictured include: Tommy Hendricks, Martin Strong, Tom Bennett, Danny Stone, and Laird Miller.
Aerial view from the southwest, showing the rectory and school buildings. Taken before construction of Interstate 94, so shows homes and businesses in surrounding neighborhood.
The Solemn Communion Class for 1937 poses on the front steps of the Basilica. Father James M. Reardon and four assistant priests stand at the top. Children include: Colleen Macintosh, Katherine Wolfe, Bonny Howard, Mary Iacona, Pat Haverty, Teddy Lotz, Anthony Mandile, George Mastros, Anthony Battaglia, Joe Battaglia, Russel Favorite, Sammy Iacona, Robert Iacona, Terrence Sweeny, and Danny Skay.
Image 2 of 2. Father Thomas Cullen, seated, poses with the Pro-Cathedral Choir on the front steps of the Pro-Cathedral of St. Mary, Minneapolis. Easter Sunday. Mary Jane Mulhein and her parents stand in the front row, far left.
Front exterior is hung with multiple banners. A number of Congress events were held at the church, and rector Father James M. Reardon was General Chairman of the event.
View from the rectory down the west side of the church. The Fawkes building, Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church steeple, and businesses along Lyndale Avenue are visible in the distance.