Corpus Christi

Corpus Christi RC Church - Table of Contents

Corpus Christi RC Church - Exterior
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

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Erected:
1907-1909 at a cost of $200,000.00.
Restored 1970

Architect:
Karl G. Schmill and Gould

Style:
Romanesque Revival

Exterior building material:
Brownstone from the Hummelstown Brownstone Company in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

Status:
National Register of Historic Places

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Clark Street (west) facade	An East side landmark	Lantern Cupola with roundels	Lantern Cupola Belfry

	Twin towers and spires Rose window	Raking corbel table	Rose window

Compound arch in the door surround	Quatrefoil in the tympanum	Foliated compound arch in the door surround	North (right) side of church

Curved apse

Exterior building material: Brownstone from the Hummelstown Brownstone Company in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The quarries were the premiere brownstone quarries of the Commonwealth at the turn of the last century. Originally opened by German settlers in the late 18th Century, these pits became one of the finest sources of brownstone (as regards both quality and durability) in the northeastern quadrant of the United States. Although not as large as the vast quarries at Portland, Connecticut, they were their equal in every respect and a worthy competitor of most other brownstone quarries including those at Medina and Moscow New York.

The Walton Family (owners of the Hummelstown Brownstone Company) published a handsome advertising booklet around 1910 which listed almost 400 structures built of their stone, but Corpus Christi Church did not appear on that list. The verification for the source of the stone in that church, however, appears in Ralph W. Stone's book Building Stones of Pennsylvania. - Ben Olena

See also: "Sandstones," from Building Stones and Clay-Products: A Handbook for Architects, by Heinrich Ries, 1912, First Edition.

Special thanks to Corpus Christi Pastor Rev. Karl Kolodziejski, OFM, for his cooperation in 2002

Erected:	1907-1909 at a cost of $200,000.00. Restored 1970
Architect:	Karl G. Schmill and Gould
Style:	Romanesque Revival
Exterior building material:	Brownstone from the Hummelstown Brownstone Company in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Status:	National Register of Historic Places