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Inside, the auditorium is 118 feet long and fifty-five feet wide, with an arcade of stained glass windows. Behind the altar is another large, elaborate stained glass window. The ceiling is supported by wooden trusses. The church was built by masons Marshall and Sweet, carpenters Cummingham Brothers,
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immigrants worshiping in the home of Captain Thomas and Lucy Power, where City Hall now stands. In 1854 the parish built a stone church, in which they worshiped for thirty years until it burned in 1884. Reverend J.W. Ward set right to work raising funds for a new building, partly by giving a series
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detail. A circle-within-the-arch motif repeats in many windows. Many buttresses lead up to little towers with gablets on top. The big corner tower has its own corner gablets, then a
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of Chicago designed a simply massed rectangular building with a gable roof and a square corner tower, with fine details. The walls are cream brick, with brick
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St. Thomas is the oldest Catholic parish in Beloit, with roots going back to 1846, when the parishioners were largely
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The new church was built from 1885 to 1886 on the site of the stone church.
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Church of St. Thomas the Apostle (Beloit, Wisconsin) is located in Wisconsin
Church of St. Thomas the Apostle (Beloit, Wisconsin) is located in the United States
Beloit, Wisconsin
42°29′58″N 89°1′41″W / 42.49944°N 89.02806°W / 42.49944; -89.02806
James J. Egan
MPS
Beloit MRA
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Beloit
Wisconsin
United States
National Register of Historic Places
Irish
temperance lectures
James J. Egan
buttresses
Stick style
arches slightly pointed
Gothic
belfry
rose window
"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service
"Church of St. Thomas the Apostle (Catholic)"


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