The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-11-07
Lithuanian Catholics to Build a
Splendid Temple at Corner
Of Brocket and Jenne SITS.
SEEK CONSENT OF BISHOP
Foundations for the New Church Will
Be Put In This Year, and Church
Will Be Completed in the
Early Summer of 1908

The Rev. Father Klonowski and
members of the Building Committee
of the Lithuanian Catholic church so
ciety OF this city made visit to Arch
bishop Messmer insMilwaukee Thurs
day morning for the purpose of secur-
ing the consent of the Archbishop for
the erection of splendid new church
for the Kenosha society. The plans
for the new church drawn by Joseph
Indie, the Main street architect,
were accepted at meeting of the
church society on Tuesday evening,
and the work of erecting the church
will be started just as soon as the con-
sent of the head of the diocese is OBJ
tanned. The church will be erected
at the corner of Jenne and Brocket
ing committee to have the building
started before the first of January.
The basement will be completed this
year and it is the plan to have the
church ready for dedication in the
early summer of next year. The
church will be one of the most hand
some churches in the city and with
the parsonage the cost will be in the
neigh borhood of $4,000. The church
is to be of pressed brick and in dimen-
auditorium with seating capacity of
700 people. It will have a tower 13O
feet in height. The lower part of the
building will contain four rooms for
use as parochial school, and in addi-
ton to this there will be rooms in this
part Of the church for the living quar-
tiers of the Sisters who will be in
charge Of the school.
The second floor of the building
will be used entirely for the auditor
ium. There will also be a balcony in
the church which will increase the
seating capacity to seven hundred.
There were large number of designs
for the church submitted to the build
Lindle were accepted on account of
the fact that they were considered
best adapted to the demands of the
congregation. The estimated cost
of the church property is thirty thous-
and dollars and it is estimated tina t
ten thousand dollars will be needed to
make the other provements plan
ned.
The Lithuanian congregation is
one of the strongest of the Catholic
IA IN %
the past two or three years there has
been great influx of Lithuanians to
the city and while the church society
is but few years old it is claimed
that it already has communicates to
the number of more than four hun.
dred and the congregation is growing
faster than any other catholic con-
gregation in the city. The site for
the new church has been purchased
and paid for. It comprises nearly a
whole city block and it is located IN
one of the Lithuanian centres of the
city. Some of the money needed for
the building of the church has already
been raised and the loyalty OF the
| Lithuanians to their church gives as
surance that the remainder of the
money will be Forthcoming when il
is needed. Father Klonowski, who is
in charge of the church, is now living
in Chicago but he will come to Keno.
sha in the near future and give all Of
his time to the demands of the work
of the Kenosha church. At the pre-
sent time the Lithuanians are wor
Shipping for the most part with other
Catholic congregations ia the city.