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.
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.
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.
No. 952-A. Drawn by G.B.M. Two side-by-side drawings: Door no. 3, with symbols for Peter, Andrew, John and James. This drawing has been colored with orange and blue pencils; Remaining 7 doors prototype. Also a sketch indicating door locations.
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.
Dedication ceremony for the bell of St. Peter's Church in Pantown, Minnesota. Officiating at the service was Reverend Theodore S. Ziolkowski (left), Right Reverend C. Thiebault (center) and Reverend Ralph Aschoff, pastor for the new parish.
St. Cloud Times publisher, Fred Schilplin lying in a coffin in the St. Cloud Times building lobby during a funeral visitation. Mourners can be seen on the right.
Fire destroys St. John's Episcopal Church on Fourth Street South. The church was built in 1892. 4 firemen bring a fire hose up a ladder to the top of the church, hosing down the inside of the church in efforts to put out the fire.
Fire destroys St. John's Episcopal Church on Fourth Street South. The church was built in 1892. Fireman sprays the church with a hose from a distance as he stands on a hook and ladder fire truck. Firemen on the ground assist and look on. Roof of church has been destroyed.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
East view across the Laurel Avenue bridge in Minneapolis. To left, the Foshay Tower stands alone in the skyline, to center is the Basilica of Saint Mary, to the left is Dunwoody Institute. Predates construction of Interstate 94.
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.
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.
Sheet no. 3. Cross section detail view of unidentified altar. Notes: Use of B. C. Altissimo marble, stucco, dome design. Statue of B. P. quality statuary marble.
Sheet no. 2. Notes: Riser, altar B. C. altissimo marble; Treads and marble. Archway labeled ""not in contract." Initialed by E. H. L. (Edwin H. Lundie), stamped E. L. Masqueray, architect.