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  • Immaculate Conception Church, Bloomfield

    Immaculate Conception Church

    Update: This church was demolished shortly after this article appeared. It seems the misunderstanding we mentioned below was not so easy to clear up.

    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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  • Stained Glass in the Allegheny Cemetery Mausoleum

    America the Beautiful
    “America the Beautiful,” by Katherine Lee Bates.

    The Allegheny Cemetery Mausoleum is now advertised as the Temple of Memories, because our taste has gone in that direction. It’s a very large communal mausoleum, built in 1960, and walking through the doors feels like going through a time portal into the end of the Eisenhower era. By far the most striking feature of the mausoleum is the series of stained-glass windows by Willet in Philadelphia and Hunt in Pittsburgh. They are some of the best modern stained glass in Pittsburgh, and they commemorate great triumphs of religious literature and music. We have a lot of large pictures here, so we’ll put them behind a “read more” link to avoid weighing down the front page.

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