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The rectory is a two-story (three-story on the garden) red brick structure with a red tile roof and cream terra cotta and limestone trim. It is joined to the church by an open passageway with a Tuscan-colonnaded roof The front elevation is the most elaborate, containing a central, two-story pedimented frontispiece, and on the first level a blind arcade of Roman arches with window inserts. The gable ends are corbelled and have a quatrefoil rose window. A panelled chimney ornaments the west elevation.

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The rectory was erectea in 1919 using the designs of a Fa~her Michael, a priest "who hard] taken to architecture If· It replaced a frame rectory pre-dated the church Originally the building served as the residence of the BishoP the Pastor and the Assistant Pastor and provided rooms for instr~ction ana sewing. The rectory is of a Neo-Tuscan Renaissance design that is both attractive and complementary to the church that it serves.

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