3769 E UNDERWOOD AVE, 3750 & 3776 E HAMMOND AVE
Historic Name: | Holy Family Roman Catholic Church Complex |
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Reference Number: | 100006695 |
Location (Address): | 3769 E UNDERWOOD AVE, 3750 & 3776 E HAMMOND AVE |
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County: | Milwaukee |
City/Village: | Cudahy |
Township: |
Holy Family Roman Catholic Church Complex 3769 E Underwood Avenue, 3750 & 3776 East Hammond Avenue, Cudahy, Milwaukee County Architects: Francis S. Gurda (church); Unknown (convent); Myles E. Belongia (school) Artist: Adolph Roegner (bas relief on school) Dates of construction: 1931 (church); 1954 (convent); 1958 (school) Cudahy’s first Catholic congregation—St. Frederick’s--was established in 1896. Despite the existence of St. Frederick, which primarily consisted of Germans, the area’s Polish population wanted a church of their own. Four years later, Holy Family Roman Catholic Church was established as a mission church of South Milwaukee’s, St. Adalbert’s Roman Catholic Church (est. 1898). In 1901, the Holy Family congregation built their first edifice at the northeast corner of E. Underwood and S. Swift avenues at a cost of $3,000. In 1905, a rectory was built and, in 1910, a school was erected; the latter structure of which also provided accommodations for the Felician Sisters who were called upon to teach the Holy Family students. Although the growing congregation was in need of a larger church by the early 1920s, their new, Neo-Gothic Revival-style house of worship, built at the same location as the 1901 structure, was not completed until 1931. The need for additional classroom space grew such that it prompted the 1954 construction of a $75,000 purpose-built, Colonial Revival-style convent along E. Hammond Avenue. Finally, in need of modernized educational facilities, the 1910 school was demolished and a new 1950s Contemporary-style structure was completed in 1958. The convent was sold in the early 1980s, but the congregation continued to worship in the church until 2000, while the school was utilized as a parochial school until closing in 2004 and the former rectory was used as a rental. Despite the 2018 razing of the rectory by the congregation, the remaining three Holy Family Roman Catholic Church buildings—church, convent and school--combine to stand as a very good and highly intact religious complex (in Cudahy), both inside and out. |
Period of Significance: | 1931-1964 |
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Area of Significance: | Architecture |
Applicable Criteria: | Architecture/Engineering |
Historic Use: | Religion: Religious Facility |
Historic Use: | Religion: Church School |
Historic Use: | Religion: Church Related Residence |
Architectural Style: | Late Gothic Revival |
Architectural Style: | Colonial Revival |
Architectural Style: | Modern Movement |
Resource Type: | Building |
Architect: | Myles E. Belongia |
Architect: | Francis S. Gurda |
Architect: | Adolph Roegner |
Historic Status: | Listed in the State Register |
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Historic Status: | Listed in the National Register |
National Register Listing Date: | 07/06/2021 |
State Register Listing Date: | 02/19/2021 |
Number of Contributing Buildings: | 3 |
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Number of Contributing Sites: | 0 |
Number of Contributing Structures: | 0 |
Number of Contributing Objects: | 0 |
Number of Non-Contributing Sites: | 0 |
Number of Non-Contributing Structures: | 0 |
Number of Non-Contributing Objects: | 0 |
National Register and State Register of Historic Places, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |