Our Lady, Queen of Heaven Church, Roman Catholic church in Oreana, United States.
Our Lady, Queen of Heaven Church is a Roman Catholic church in Oreana, Idaho, housed in a lava rock building with a false front and a wooden cornice above its parapet roofline. The 1883 structure, originally a general store and post office, was renovated in 1961 with Gothic features while keeping its overall design.
The lava-rock building went up around 1883 as Oreana's general store; its first post office opened inside in 1885. In 1961 the store was renovated into a Catholic church, a project that added Gothic features while keeping the overall design intact. It joined the National Register of Historic Places on November 28, 1980.
The building's name comes from its 1961 conversion, when the former general store became a Catholic church; the renovation added Gothic features while keeping the original design. The post office that opened inside in 1885 made it Oreana's first, and the false front and wooden cornice still mark it as a storefront rather than a purpose-built church.
The building stands in Oreana, a small unincorporated community in Owyhee County reached by road from Grand View; there is no public transport. It is a rural church without visitor facilities, so check locally before travelling. The lava-rock walls and false front are best seen from the street outside.
The building's false front and wooden cornice survive from its years as Oreana's general store, which also housed the town's first post office from 1885. The 1961 conversion to a church added Gothic features but left the overall design intact, and the building joined the National Register of Historic Places on November 28, 1980.
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