{"id":1183,"date":"1908-12-08T08:44:18","date_gmt":"1908-12-08T14:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ss.sites.mtu.edu\/cca\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2017-01-02T20:28:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T01:28:56","slug":"st-josephs-catholic-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ss.sites.mtu.edu\/cca\/st-josephs-catholic-church\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Joseph\u2019s Catholic Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Kiel Vanderhovel and Derek Dykens.<\/p>\n

Architect: Shand & Eastman<\/a>
\nLocation: 8th and Oak Streets, Calumet
\nAlternate Name:\u00a0St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church
\nBuilt: 1903-081<\/sup><\/p>\n

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St. Joseph’s Church. Photograph by A. K. Hoagland, 2007.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Slovenians separated from Sacred Heart Church in Calumet Township to form their own congregation, called St. Joseph’s.\u00a0 In 1903 they replaced their frame structure built in 1889 with this magnificent Jacobsville sandstone twin-towered church.\u00a0 The Romanesque Revival style is seen in the round arches of the openings and the rough-faced sandstone.\u00a0 Buttresses support the side walls, which are interrupted slightly by the transepts. Architect\u00a0Paul Humphrey Macneil<\/a>\u00a0designed the interior.2<\/sup>\u00a0 The largest and grandest of the churches in Calumet, the church was renamed St. Paul the Apostle in the late 1960s when several other congregations closed their churches and joined together at St. Paul’s.<\/p>\n

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