Corpus Christi RC Church - Table
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Corpus Christi RC
Church - Exterior
Listed on the National
Register
of Historic Places
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Corpus
Christi Official Website (online
June 2022) |
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Erected: |
1907-1909 at a
cost of $200,000.00. Restored 1970 |
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Architect: |
Karl G. Schmill and Gould |
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Style: |
Romanesque Revival |
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Exterior building material: |
Brownstone from the Hummelstown Brownstone Company in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania |
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Status: |
National Register of Historic Places |
2002
Photos
 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 |
 Clark Street (west) facade   Lantern Cupola with roundels   
 Raking blind arcade 
 Foliated compound arch in the door surround |
 North (right) side of church  South (left) side of
church Note curved apse |
