Aerial view from the southwest, showing the church, rectory and school. A foundation hole has been dug for the convent building. To the west, most homes and businesses have been razed to make way for construction of Interstate 94.
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.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish activities and news, annual financial reports. Also includes detailed accounting of the interior finish of the church and its elevation to a minor basilica. Book was also used as a scrapbook for programs and newspaper clippings pertaining to the church and Catholic events in the city.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish activities and news. Documents laying of the cornerstone for the Pro-Cathedral (later Basilica) of St. Mary in 1908. Also includes list of parish library holdings.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday Mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish activities & news, and special Diocesan notices. Reverse of book includes financial records of expenditures and financial contributions listed by parishioner.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday Mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish activities & news, and special Diocesan notices. Also includes roster of First Communion class attendees for 1883 and the parish choir.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday Mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish activities, entertainments and news. Initial fundraising and groundbreaking for the new Pro Cathedral is documented.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday Mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish activities, entertainments and news. Progress of the new Pro Cathedral building is documented.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish and civic activities. Documents first two years in the new Pro-Cathedral church. Includes some baptism records.
Schools in North-central Minnesota (1871-1909). Eden Valley was platted in 1886 when the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad Company laid their tracks through the area, Eden Valley developed rather rapidly. By 1901 three Benedictine sisters from St. Joseph went there to teach in temporary classrooms until the new parochial school was completed in 1902. Eventually the enrollment peaked at 310 with 8 sisters teaching at the Assumption School. Watkins The same year, the neighboring town of Watkins was platted along the same railroad. By 1907 the Catholic parish, St. Anthony's, in Watkins was large enough to build its own parochial school. The Benedictine sisters from St. Joseph were invited to teach there and the school soon realized an enrollment of 200 pupils. In subsequent years, the school developed to a peak of 321 students and for some years included high school classes (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives, Olsenius, page 137).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Postcard of the "New Cathedral. Minneapolis. Minn," the Pro-Cathedral of Saint Mary. Building has a round dome, a design ultimately changed by architect Emmanuel Masqueray. Church is shown surrounded by trees and parkland.
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.
The Catholic Church was located on the southeast corner of Seventh Avenue South and Fourth Street South. It was torn down and a new one was built on the south end of Seventh Avenue South.
Exterior view of the Catholic School and Convent in Madison Lake, Minnesota, with message from Martha to Miss J. B. Hoffman, Wabasso, Minnesota, postmarked Eagle Lake, Minnesota
Mass celebrating the Basilica being named Co-Cathedral of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. At center behind forward altar, Archbishop Leo Binz, flanked by Father Colbert and Father Gormely.
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.
Exterior view of the St. Mary's Parish School with children in front of the building. They are posed with pastor, Reverend Ansgar Osendorf, Order of Saint Benedict (OSB).
Schools in north-central Minnesota (1871-1909). New Munich began with a few small buildings built by two men, Burns and Sutton, in 1855. They also ran a small "wayside" inn for the stagecoach that ran north-south through this part of the county. The town gradually settled around the church built by the German Catholics. In 1879 three sisters came to New Munich to teach in the district school at the request of the pastor. The trustees and the people did not agree with this decision and hired a lay teacher. The pastor then opened a parochial school in the church basement, but attendance was very small and leaders of the antagonism made it almost impossible for the sisters to live there. Despite the set-backs, the sisters won the good will of the people so that the following year the school opened with over 100 children enrolled (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives, Olsenius, page 120; Jaakkola and Frericks, page 77).
This image shows the Church of St. Peter in St. Peter, MN. This Catholic church was located on the southwest corner of the intersection of Myrtle and Fifth Streets until it was destroyed by the March 1998 tornado. This postcard negative, marked 479, has been converted to a digital positive image.
The west face and the south side of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, also known as St. Mary's Church, are visible in this image. The church faced South Third Street, and was located on the northeast corner of the intersection of Third and Myrtle Streets in St. Peter.
Color guard exits down front steps, past large crowds to either side. Leaving Memorial Mass said for Marshall Ferdinand Foch, Generalissimo of the allied forces in WWI. The Mass was said the same day Foch was laid to rest at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
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.
Composite panoramic photograph showing crowds gathered for the dedication of the Father Hennepin Memorial on the grounds of the Basilica. Clergy and Knights of Columbus process down the steps towards the monument. Homes and the Beldon Porter Co. are visible along 17th St. N.
Sheet no. 225. Notes: Bronze chains bearing spun bronze counter-weight filled with lead shot. Cover handles arranged as spring clips to hold cover in place.
Bldg. no. 112, sheet no. 13B. Three sketches with measurements: Plan (overhead, showing half-sketch of flush veneered cover); End Elevation with piping; Half Elevation / Half Section.
Building no. 2, Sheet no. 2. Stamped Slifer, Lundie & Abrahamson, Successors to E. L. Masqueray. 1/2 elevations and measurements, half plan, doors on axis ""Q"" and axis ""O"" Note references removal of present wooden steps.
Untitled sketch. Includes canopy, throne, stools and a walnut platform. Canopy details include the Archdiocesan coat-of-arms, painted in color, gold leaf and velour drapery. Throne detail shows carvings on seat back and posts, and note a spring cushion of ""best quality leather""
Sketch of Chapel of the Immaculate Conception. Pillars, decorations, and Mary emerging from a cave, with another woman kneeling below. Chapel bears inscription,""Je suis l'immaculee conception,", and is marked ""traced"" by FAA (architect Frank A. Abrahamson) and dated.
Building no. 2, sheet no. 100. Notes: Make 1 thus for St. Joseph's Altar (Base detailed on sheet #2). Make 1 thus for Sacred Heart Altar with Base as detailed on sheet no. 101. Noted materials: Ebony inlay on cross, ivory corpus.
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.
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).
Sheet no. 201. St. Joseph monogram, S-J encircled by lilies. Encased in circle, with leaf and berry motif around outside of circle frame. To be centered along center line of the altar.
Sheet no. 226. Detail ornamentation and section view, also notes. A section of the drawing, which appears to have contained ""typical detail of the 4 symbols to be hammered in low relief in 4 panels"" has been cut away.
Bldg. no. 2, Sheet No. X. Detail of inlayed cross, with stippled finish, low relief lily on either side of base of cross. Florets at corners of inlay. Note: Finish to be dull statuary bronze with highlights polished.
Sheet no. 117. Wreath of thorns around disc-shaped symbol (located on separate drawings), upright bow and ribbon around hanging grape cluster, grape/leaf robe drapery to second bow/ribbon.