Mother of Good Counsel Church, Lisbon at 70th, Milwaukee Wisconsin. Built 1966-68.
How have I never seen this place before???
It's a beautiful massing of a curved brick screen wall, capped with limestone and studded with protruding bricks, behind which stands a diamond-shaped sanctuary with narrow bands of stained glass.
Next to it is a small parish office building, which brings together a number of fairly typical Mid-Century design elements (the vertical pier intersecting the horizontal plane, the rectangular cutouts, the limestone surrounds), but in an unusually high density -- and with a couple of elements I've never seen before.
Most flabergasting is this original doorway:
I can't believe they designed this -- let alone that it's still here 40 years later. Magnificent!!
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2 comments:
Hi, love the blog. Holy Family Church in Whitefish Bay is very similar. Until the '90s, maybe, it had some really bizarre Jetsons-esque details. Check it out sometime (E. Hampton Ave. in Whitefish Bay, about a half-mile west of the lake.)
I've got photos of it. If I ever get around to it, I'll do a whole series of posts on each of these churches, and that one's high on the list. Too bad it lost the vintage details...
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