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.