It is traditional to paint onion domes blue like the heavens, or to gild them if the congregation is feeling rich. But Homestead was known for one thing, so these domes are glimmering Homestead stainless steel.
This church was designed by Button & McLean, who also designed yesterday’s Homestead Senior High School. The Button of the pair was Lamont Button, whom we have met as a designer of high-class houses for the upper middle classes. Ground was broken in 1936, but the church got stuck at the basement level. It remained stuck until 1949, when the job was finally finished.1
- “Who, What, Why, When and Where in Today’s Church Work,” Charette, December, 1949, p. 17. See also the Wikipedia article on St. Nicholas Carpatho-Rusyn Church. ↩︎
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