Saint Patrick's Church (Dubuque, Iowa)

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St. Patrick's Catholic Church
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Location110 W. 15th St., 1425 Iowa St., Dubuque, Iowa
Coordinates 42°30′23.37″N90°40′9.04″W / 42.5064917°N 90.6691778°W / 42.5064917; -90.6691778 Coordinates: 42°30′23.37″N90°40′9.04″W / 42.5064917°N 90.6691778°W / 42.5064917; -90.6691778
Built1877-1878 (church)
1880s (rectory)
ArchitectJohn Keenan (church)
Architectural style Gothic Revival (church)
Second Empire (rectory)
Part of Jackson Park Historic District
NRHP reference No. 86002102 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 31, 1986

Saint Patrick's Church is a Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of Dubuque, and is located at 15th and Iowa Streets, Dubuque, Iowa, United States. The church and rectory were included as contributing properties in the Jackson Park Historic District that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. St. Patrick's Church is located two blocks away from St. Mary's Church. The reason for the close proximity of the two parishes was that St. Mary was originally built for service to German families of Dubuque, and St. Patrick's provided services for the Irish settlers to Dubuque.

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History

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Rectory

The parish was founded in 1852 as a mission of St. Raphael Cathedral. [2] The parish buildings were built on land that Mathias Loras Bishop Mathias Loras had purchased when it was offered for sale by the Federal government. Originally, a wood-frame building was used as a church building and was located at what is now the front of the rectory. The first church was dedicated by Bishop Loras in 1853. St. Patrick became an independent parish five years later when the Rev. Patrick McCabe was assigned as the first resident pastor. The [cornerstone] of the present brick church was laid in 1877, and the building was dedicated on August 15, 1878. In 1928, the Rev. J.J. Hanley remodeled and enlarged the church.

St. Patrick Church was originally built for service to the Irish settlers of Dubuque and while the parish has maintained a healthy respect for its Irish heritage over its many years of service, the parish now specializes in service to the Hispanic residents of Dubuque. [2] The parish offers a Spanish language Spanish Mass on Sundays, and the offices of Hispanic ministry are also located at the parish. From 1995 to 2008 a pastoral administrator led the St. Patrick's congregation. During that same time, from 1999 to 2010, St. Patrick was clustered with St. Mary's Parish. St. Mary's closed in May 2010 and St. Patrick was clustered with St. Raphael's Cathedral at that time.

Architecture

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A view of the church from behind

St. Patrick's Church was designed by Dubuque architect John Keenan in the [Gothic Revival architecture Gothic Revival] style. It is a brick structure built on a Dubuque stone foundation. [3] It features a central tower that is capped with a crown. The main entrance has been altered in subsequent years, but it fits in with the older structure. The church building is seven bays long with the seventh bay on the south end forming a sort of [transept]. The bays are divided by brick [buttress]es and each bay contain a paired [lancet window]. The interior is divided into three naves.

The rectory was built in the 1880s to the rear of the church. It is a three-story brick residence capped with a [mansard roof]. The original [porch] has been replaced with a single-story addition. Other additions have also been added to the west side of the house. [3]

A school building, no longer extant, was built immediately west of the church. It was replaced by a three-story structure in 1951 on the corner of West 15th and Main Streets. The parish sold the building in 2006. [2] It is not considered an historic structure. [3]

Schools

St. Patrick's Parish had a parochial school for boys established after 1870, while girls attended St. Joseph Academy. St. Patrick's School merged with St. Mary's Catholic School to form Downtown Catholic School in 1982. The organization Holy Family Catholic Schools took control of Downtown Catholic and other Dubuque-area Catholic schools in 2001. Downtown Catholic and Sacred Heart – Holy Trinity School became St. Francis School in 2002, and St. Francis closed in 2004. Four Oaks Family and Children Services bought the school building in 2006. [4]

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