St. Gabriel's Catholic Parish Complex
St. Gabriel's Catholic Parish Complex | |
Location | 122-142 S. Wyoming St., Hazleton, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | 40°56′55″N 75°58′20″W / 40.94861°N 75.97222°W |
Area | 1.3 acres (0.53 ha) |
Built | 1907-1908, 1925, 1937 |
Architect | Sheridan, Peter B.; DePace, Anthony J. |
Architectural style | Gothic Revival, Colonial Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 02000889[1] |
Added to NRHP | August 22, 2002 |
St. Gabriel's Catholic Parish Complex is a historic Roman Catholic church complex located at 122-142 S. Wyoming Street in Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania within the Diocese of Scranton.
Description
[edit]The St. Gabriel's complex consists of the church (1925), rectory (1907-1908), and former convent (1937). The church is a high French Gothic Revival steel frame building clad in pink granite ashlar with Indiana limestone trim. It features twin bell towers with triple entrance portals at the front facade. The rectory is a three-story, wood-frame building in the Colonial Revival style. The convent was designed by architect Anthony J. DePace (1892–1977), and is a four-story building clad in granite ashlar and limestone. It was converted to affordable apartments and offices in 1998–1999. The church was founded in 1855.[2] It merged with Annunciation Parish. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.[1]
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Convent building in 2013
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Postcard c. 1940
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2012-03-12. Note: This includes Robert Janosov and Lawrence Newman (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: St. Gabriel's Catholic Parish Complex" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-05.
External links
[edit]- Roman Catholic churches completed in 1908
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- Gothic Revival church buildings in Pennsylvania
- Colonial Revival architecture in Pennsylvania
- Churches in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
- Hazleton, Pennsylvania
- National Register of Historic Places in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
- 1908 establishments in Pennsylvania
- 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States