Saint Alphonsus Church
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Designed by early Baltimore architect Robert Cary Long in 1845, the St. Alphonsus Church has been called "the German cathedral" for its Southern German neo-Gothic style. The church was originally established with a large German congregation and the attached rectory functioned as provincial headquarters for the Redemptorist Fathers and Brothers.
By 1917, the German congregation had largely left the neighborhoods around the church and the building was acquired by the Roman Catholic Lithuanian Parish of Saint John the Baptist. The new congregation took on the historic name of the church and reopened the school in St. Alphonsus Hall, which had been established in l847.
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Saint Alphonsus Church
View of the church from the rooftop of a nearby Park Avenue building. | Source: | Date: c. 1905-1940
St. Alphonsus Church (c. 1888)
Illustration of St. Alphonsus Church. | Source: Weishampel's Baltimore Guide, The Stranger in Baltimore: A New Hand Book (1888), Internet Archive, weishampelsbalti01weis. | Date: c. 1888
St. Alphonsus Church (2012)
View of St. Alphonsus Church. | Source: 91视频 | Date: 2012
Commemorative Plaque, St. Alphonsus Church (2012)
Image of plaque commemorating the parishioners who served in the military during World War II. | Source: 91视频 | Date: 2012
Window, St. Alphonsus Church (2012)
Exterior view of St. Alphonsus Church window. | Source: 91视频 | Date: 2012
Spire, St. Alphonsus Church (2012)
View of St. Alphonsus Church spire. | Source: 91视频 | Date: 2012
Interior, St. Alphonsus (1953)
View of the kitchen of St. Alphonsus Church at Saratoga Street and Park Avenue. | Source: BG&E Collection, Baltimore Museum of Industry, BGE.27254 | Date: September 17, 1953
St. Alphonsus Church and Lithuanians on the West Side (2012)
Video describing the growth of the Lithuanian community and St. Alphonsus' place in that community. | Source: UMBC Practices in Public History course with Dr. Denise Meringolo | Date: (2012)Map
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