1883 - Holy Family Church - Omaha, Nebraska
Posted by: BruceS
N 41° 16.110 W 095° 56.367
15T E 253779 N 4572731
Historic Catholic Church north of downtown Omaha.
Waymark Code: WM57Y3
Location: Nebraska, United States
Date Posted: 11/25/2008
Views: 11
"Holy Family was the third parish established in Omaha by the Roman Catholic Vicarate of Nebraska. The present church was built in 1883 to serve Irish railroad workers and their families and is an important example of an ecclesiastical building designed as a combined church, school, and rectory. It is rectangular with classrooms in the basement, the church proper on the main floor, and living quarters for the clergy at the rear. Variations of this building type were common in Roman Catholic parishes in Omaha during the late nineteenth century. Holy Family is the earliest and least altered of two known remaining structures of this type in the citv. The church is also the earliest known commission produced by the architect brothers Charles and August Cleves of Omaha, who designed a number of the city's important commercial and ecclesiastical buildings in the early 1880s through 1909." ~ Nebraska State Historical Society website
Year of construction: 1883
Cross-listed waymark: [Web Link]
Full inscription: 1883
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