Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and Rectory, Gothic Revival church in St. Helena, United States.
The Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and Rectory is a Gothic Revival church built in 1896–1897 to designs by architect Josef Schwartz, with a 1919 two-and-a-half-story Four Square rectory, in St. Helena, Nebraska. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
The Gothic Revival church was built in 1896–1897 to a design by architect Josef Schwartz, who also designed the similar Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church about 10 miles away in Bow Valley, Nebraska. The two-and-a-half-story Four Square rectory followed in 1919. The church and rectory were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
The parish is named for the Immaculate Conception, a Catholic doctrine, and the church has served the Catholics of St. Helena since it was built in 1896–1897. The rectory, added in 1919, housed the priests who served the parish. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
The church and rectory stand together in St. Helena, a town of 87 people in the 1990 census, so the complex is reached by road and seen on foot in minutes. The Gothic Revival exterior, designed by Josef Schwartz, is visible from the street; the 1919 Four Square rectory sits on the same grounds.
Architect Josef Schwartz designed both this church and the similar Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Bow Valley, Nebraska, about 10 miles (16 km) away. The shared design lets a visitor compare two buildings by the same hand in one region.
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