The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-09-23
The TeW Catholic Church at Maple
Grove

Grove
This large and beautiful church is now
being rapidly pushed TO completion, the
walls being at the present writing over 10
feet high, and the brick work of the sa
cristy nearly completed This church is
located in the town of Maple Grove, in this
county, and is being built by the Catholics
IN that part of the county, under the su-
peryision of the Rev. Father Mahoney.-
An attempt at brief description of the
building, as we ale enabled to learn from
the plans shown US, may not be uninterest-
ing to the readers Of the PILoT.
First, then, the building is to be built
of brick, manufactured at the brick yard of
Geo. Groffman, of this village. And is
45 feet wide, by l06 feet in length, the
building resting upon stone foundation,
which is sunk | 2 feet below the level of
the ground. In laying this foundation 90
cords of stone were used Upon this foun
dation the brick work commences, and is
laid to the hight of 2 feet upon which is
laid a water table of fine Joliet stone of
the thickness Of the wall, and six inches
wide, and upon this stone the church is
built, raising there-from 80 feet in solid
brick masonry to the ceiling, or the fu
hight to which the main building is to be
raised. There ate windows in each side
of the church, each about 20 feet in hight
and feet and inches in width. These
windows are TO be in gothic style and be
tween each window column or pier is
brought out l6 inches projection from
the general wall Of the building, and 20
inches wide, extending from the base of
the building to the cornish. This cornish
is also in gothic style, and extends entire
ly around the building.
Coming now to the front of the building
We discover a hexagonal projection, l. feet
on each side, with the hight of the main
building, this is the entrance to the main
building; it has gothic door IN front, I3
feet in hight and feet wide, to be made
from solid oak, and over the door is to be
placed beautiful cut stone cross. Two
windows are to be in the main frort of the
building, Of same size aud style as the side
windows, a smaller window like style, is
over the front door, and all the windows
in the main body Of the church, are t, be
of cut diamo ID stained glass
The tower is placed upon the front cen
= tre Of the building, and is to extend Il
feet above the root. The brick work is tc
extend i feet above the roof The tower
Is to be also hexagon, having gothic
window in each side, as far az the brick
work extends. 1t is to be in three sec,
tlons, each projection guarded by miniature
p towers. The main tower is surmounteC
by beautifully carved cross Passing now
around the front to the South side of the
building, and 70 feet from the front, we
find a projection or widening Of I l-2 feet
, passing around this, and Is feet further on
/ we came to another projection or widening
Of Is feet, in which is the outside door OF
the sacristy. Thence passing IS feet around
this we reach the rear of the building.
will be able to form get correct idea oi
the design Of this building, from our i'm
perfect description /; but we have done the
{ best We could, and will aban1on the at
tempt, only asking all who wish to see one
of the largest churches in Northern Wis
, consin, to go to Maple Grove and see it,
as soon as it is completed, which we have
no doubt will be done quickly, from the en-.
ergy and determination which seems tc
stimulate all parties interested in its bull
ding
, The cost of the church when completed,
we are informed will not be far from $50,
600, about $40, 90 being already ex pended
How the people in that section Of the
country can raise that amount Of money, in
these hard times, we confess that we dc
not know To do it, they certainly must be
heartily enlisted in the work, and also have
man at their head, who will not falter
, or faint, and sucn man is the Priest, who
has the work in ch arge
Our townsmen, Charles Bressler, and
John Lantry, have the contract to complete
] the brick work, and John Mendlck tht
) stone work of the building. We are in
! formed that they and each of them, arr
doiug their work well, aud to the entire
satisfaction of their employers They Ger
tainly are all skilful workmen, and any
| thing they undertake to do, will be wei
doue
When this building is completed, VI
hope to be able to give our readers a more
intelligent dc. cription OF it, both inside
c and out.