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Why should the beautiful die?


Immaculate Conception Church, Bloomfield

Immaculate Conception Church

This modernist church was dedicated by Cardinal Wright in 1960. The architects were Belli & Belli of Chicago. The stained glass was by Pittsburgh’s Hunt Studios; the scribbly outlines visible from the outside are typical of their postwar work. The church was abandoned by the diocese, but the last old Pa Pitt heard it was being worked on for another use. (In fact there was a stop-work order pasted on the window when Father Pitt walked by in February, but he assumes that is just a minor misunderstanding that will be cleared up.)

Panorama of Immaculate Conception Church
Turret
Immaculate Conception Church
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One response to “Immaculate Conception Church, Bloomfield”

  1. von Hindenburg

    Quite different from the diocese’s other Immaculate Conception down in WashPa. It’s lovely inside, but the exterior… Gothic on a budget? style looks quite stark and unfinished. Supposedly, there was originally going to be a tower which would have helped to enliven the design, but that never got built.

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