The old Ursuline Convent was built in 1850, on land purchased by Archbishop Kenrick with money apparently donated by the King of Bavaria. Devoted to teaching, at one point they managed nineteen schools around the Archdiocese. You can read about the Ursuline Sisters here at their website. They were named after St. Ursula, a famous…
Tag: Romanesque Revival
Sts. Teresa and Bridget Roman Catholic Church
Update: As part of the Archdiocese’s plan of consolidation and closures known as All Things New, this Sts. Teresa and Bridget was combined with Most Holy Trinity and St. Nicholas to create the newly named St. Josephine Bakhita, the patron saint of human trafficking victims. Services will take place at this location. St. Teresa of…
St. Ambrose Roman Catholic Church
St. Ambrose Roman Catholic Church, as can be seen above, started out with much more humble accommodations than its current church, which dates from 1925. St. Ambrose, who was the archbishop of Milan when it was the capital of the late Western Roman Empire, is one of the Four Doctors of the Roman Catholic Church….
Former St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church
Founded in 1891 and closed in 1993, the church of St. Agnes sits on a quiet stretch of Sidney Street at the intersection of Salena. It is currently vacant and has been for a number of years. It was designed by James McNamara, and if one looks closely, we can tell that this church was…
Former St. Hedwig’s Roman Catholic Church
Update: This was in fact a Polish national parish, famous for its fall festival on Labor Day. Also, thanks to a reader’s observation, I confirmed with Sanborn maps that the school did in fact function as the church as well, which was on the second floor. The former St. Hedwig’s is set back in a…
St. Cecilia Roman Catholic Church, Revisited
Update: See the interior here from November of 2024. I visited and photographed St. Cecilia’s way back in April of 2011 when the sun was setting and I realized it was far past time to get some new pictures of the thriving parish which serves the Spanish speaking population of St. Louis after St. Francis…
Former Our Lady of Covadonga Roman Catholic Church, Quinn Chapel AME Church and Other Churches
No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t get a good picture of one of the shortest lived parishes in St. Louis, Our Lady of Covadonga Roman Catholic Church, which used this building from 1915 to 1932. It was a Spanish national church, and the story of that country’s immigration to Carondelet has not…
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
The story of Carondelet as a community is pretty much inseparable from the story of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, and their massive complex, which stretches along the bluffs in the middle of the neighborhood, reflects that connection. It’s really a series of buildings all built right next to each other, and really…
Ivory Theater, Former St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church
Update: The building is now abandoned and being looted. Founded in 1860, though the building is clearly from later in the 19th Century, St. Boniface closed in 2005 and was sold to developers who turned it into the Ivory Theater. It’s Romanesque Revival in many ways, but not compeletely. The towers have more of a…
St. Columbkille Roman Catholic Church
This row of houses hides the location of the former Roman Catholic church of St. Columbkille’s one of the three most important patron saints of Ireland along with St. Bridget of Erin and St. Patrick. It was demolished back in the 1950s and after the parish closed in 1952. The cornerstone was laid on June…