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Pilgrim Baptist Church, Easter Sunday, 1941. Photographer: Russell Lee. Source: Library of Congress.

Interior of Unity Temple, Oak Park, 1965. Photographer: Hubert Henry, Hedrich-Blessing. Source: ChicagoHistorical Society.

Temple (–), on Greenwood at HydePark Boulevard, by Alfred Alschuler; SS.Volodymyr and Olha Church (–), at North Oakley Boulevard, by Jaroslaw Kor-sunsky; and the ultramodern St. Joseph’sUkrainian Church (–), at NorthCumberland Avenue, by Zenon Mazurkevich.St. Simeon Mirotovici (–) on East thStreet is an exact replica of a fifteenth-centurySerbian monastery church.

Three fine Chicago churches were designedin the Richardsonian Romanesque style remi-niscent of Henry Hobson Richardson’s TrinityChurch in Boston. They are the Church ofthe Epiphany (), at Ashland and AdamsStreet, designed by Burling & Whitehouse;St. Gabriel Church (–), at th andLowe, by Burnham & Root; and the Metropoli-tan Community Church (), at st andKing Drive, by Solon S. Beman.

Unity Temple, Oak Park, 1913. Photographer: PercySloan. Source: The Newberry Library.

Gothic-style churches abound in Chicago:French Gothic, English Gothic, and VictorianGothic. Among the finest are St. Alphonsus(–), at Southport and Wellington, de-signed by Schrader & Conradi of St. Louis;St. Paul’s, by Henry Schlacks: St. James Chapel(–), at Rush and Pearson Streets, byGustav Steinbach of New York and ZacharyDavis of Chicago; and Queen of All SaintsBasilica (–), at North SauganashAvenue, designed by Meyer & Cook.

Chicago’s English Gothic masterpieces in-clude Shaw’s Fourth Presbyterian; Our Ladyof Mt. Carmel (–), at West Bel-mont, designed by Chicago architects Egan& Prindeville; Bond Chapel (–), atthe U C, by Coolidge& Hodgdon; St. Thomas Aquinas, nowSt. Martin de Porres (–), at WestWashington Boulevard, by Karl Vitzthum;St. Chrysostom (–), at NorthDearborn, by Chester H. Wallace; St. Sabina(–), at th and Throop, by Joe Mc-Carthy; St. Viator (–), at WestAddison Street, by Charles L. Wallace; St.Gertrude (–), on Glenwood at Granvillein Rogers Park, by James Burns; and the FirstUnitarian Church of Chicago (–), atth and Woodlawn, by Denison B. Hull.

Among the finest Renaissance-style designsare Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica (–),at West Jackson Boulevard, designed byEngelbert, Pope & Brinkman; St. John Can-tius Church (–), at North Carpen-ter Street, and St. Hedwig Church, at

North Hoyne (–), both designed byAdolphus Druiding; Corpus Christi Church(–), at th and King Drive, by JoeMcCarthy; St. Mary of the Angels (–),at North Hermitage, by Worthmann &Steinbach; Annunciation Cathedral (), at North LaSalle Drive, by N. Dokas; andSt. Josaphat Church (–), at NorthSouthport, by William J. Brinkman.

Twentieth-century churches departed some-what from their nineteenth-century antece-dents. Several churches designed by Edward

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Icon of Annunciation, St. Nicholas Ukrainian Church, 2238 West Rice Street. Photographer: Unknown. Source:Chicago Historical Society.

Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago (no date). Photographer: Jun Fujita. Source: ChicagoHistorical Society.

Madonna della Strada Chapel, Loyola University,1951. Photographer: J. Sherwin Murphy. Source:Chicago Historical Society.

Interior of Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist,55 East Wacker Drive, 1968. Photographer: JamesHedrich. Source: Chicago Historical Society.

D. Dart—in clean, brick-and-glass style—arein this category: First St. Paul’s LutheranChurch (–), at North LaSalle,and St. Procopius Abbey Church (–),at B U in L, areboth Dart designs. The Seventeenth Churchof Christ, Scientist (), at East WackerDrive, designed by Harry Weese, has clean,modern lines as well. Madonna della StradaChapel (–), on L U’sLake Shore Campus, designed by Andrew