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.
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.
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.
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.
Father Charles Doran, Assistant Priest, and Father James M. Reardon, Rector, pose holding a string of fish caught on Crooked Lake. The priests were visiting the cabin of parishioner Charles Linsmayer.
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.
Sheet no. 105. Side view detail of table legs, upswept swirls, with center floral carvings. Below swirls, Basilica seal of shield and umbrellino. Also side view of detail.
Sheet no. 115-A. Rose tavernelle marble bowl, leafy/swirl design along bowl, mirrored across row of pearls. Dome shaped piece to cover plumbing beneath.
Inscription for the seventh station,""Jesus Falls a Second Time," is at the top, with portions of marble framing sketched in. Below, other inscriptions are written out full scale.
Sheet #222. Coachlamp style hanging lamp, located in sacristy and aisles of church (in a slightly simplified design)"""Aurine"" glass bowl manufactured by Steuben Glass Works, Corning, NY.
Sheet no. 106. Pilaster front and side elevations, with smaller front elevation showing placement of detail work. Cartouche topped with fleur-de-lis (a symbol of Mary), centered with crown. Below, cross rising from leafy decorations.
Sheet no. 115. Larger image is fan/shell design for panel above gallery door. Along left side, detail of archway over fan, with Celtic interlinked circles, centered with florettes.
Sheet no. 211. Detail of plaster ornament runner; raised square rose panels; Celtic circular runner panels; Full scale cornice; Elevation showing stone omitted at back of altar (cross section/elevation with measurements).
Sheet no. 203. Framed scene, Christ at center greeting Mary, the Cross against his shoulder. A centurion stands behind him to the right, another sketchy figure to his left. Frame design is sketched in to upper right corner. Also measurements, notion for ""inscription." Stations were crafted by McBride Studios - New York and Pietrasanta, Italy.
Untitled. Pattern sheet for plaster ornamentation, grape clusters, vines and leaves separated by S-curves. Pattern is repeated decorating the narrow ribs cross the overhead arch of the nave. Pattern is broken by smaller rosettes half-way up each side, and at center by a large protruding florette.
Interior view of the sanctuary and nave of the Pro-Cathedral, taken before the interior was finished. (Completion of the interior was put on hold due to WWI). Walls are unfaced stone, windows have clear glass. Temporary altar is decorated with small pine trees.
View over excavation site of choir procession down into site for the laying of the cornerstone of the Pro-Cathedral of Saint Mary. Crowds watch from around edges of the hole. Current accounts note some 20,000 attended the event and preceding parade.
Building 2, sheet no. 332. Various section plans: Window, Elevation of window, cap on pier. Stamped E. L. Masqueray, Architect: Slifer, Lundie and Abrahamson, Successors.
Men march in front of and behind banner for the Basilica of Saint Mary. Basilica rector Rev. James M. Reardon served as General Chairman of the event, held June 23-26 at venues around the Twin Cities.
Interior view of Basilica, Memorial Mass 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. The sanctuary is hung with flags representing the allied nations. Cross and statuary are covered for Good Friday.
Female students from area parochial schools, cadets from St. Thomas Academy, and a crowd lines up to the steps of the church for the annual May Day Rosary Procession. Crowd extends up Hennepin Avenue. Current newspaper accounts noted some 30,000 people participated.
At center, Knights of Columbus line up down steps of the church, parochial school students to either side, for the annual May Day Rosary Procession. Crowds fill Hennepin Avenue some distance up the hill to the south. Current newspaper accounts noted some 30,000 people participated.
On the occasion of his Golden Jubilee, Monsignor James Michael Reardon poses beside Archbishop John Gregory Murray, along with a group of priests and altar boys.
Nave and Sanctuary filled with floor to ceiling scaffolding. The pews and pulpit are covered with drop cloths. Taken during restoration work, which included repainting of the ceiling and cleaning the stone, plaster and marble work by the St. Paul Statuary Company.
A full congregation of Sisters and Priests, parishioners, attend the Solemn Mass elevating the Basilica of Saint Mary to a Co-Cathedral of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.