page_title: St. Gertrude's Convent and Chapel
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: St. Gertrude's Convent and Chapel / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: St. Gertrude's Convent and Chapel This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 79000790
context_page_description: The Monastery of Saint Gertrude is a Benedictine nunnery near Cottonwood, Idaho County, Idaho. Founded by three Benedictine nuns from St. Andrew's Abbey, Sarnen, Switzerland who immigrated in 1882, it was designated the motherhouse for the community in 1909. Its main building and chapel were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as St. Gertrude's Convent and Chapel in 1979.
context_section_description: The historic structure consists of a 50 by 127 feet (15 m × 39 m) basilican chapel plus a 127 by 164 feet (39 m × 50 m) convent wing. The chapel has two 97 feet (30 m) high corner towers capped by basilica roofs of red shingle tile and gold crosses. The towers house bells honoring the Sacred Heart and saints Joseph, Michael (archangel), and Gabriel. The statue in the niche between the towers depicts the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
  The two-foot-thick walls of local blue porphyry are characteristic of the Romanesque Revival style. The structure rests on a three-quarter-story stone foundation, with a grand stairway leading to the balustraded front entry porch, presenting an imposing view. The chapel is divided along its length into seven bays supported by abbreviated buttresses, with a two-story arched window and oval window above in each bay, with surrounds of locally-made brick. The statue in the niche above the chapel's rear entry is of Saint Gertrude of Helfta, to whom the nunnery is dedicated.
  The chapel's interior is richly decorated with hand-carved pieces. The high altar, a gift from a brother of one of the founding sisters, was built in 1928 in Sigmaringen, Germany "by a company whose master recently had been awarded the insignia "Pro Papa Et Ecclesta" (for the Pope and Church) for outstanding service to the cause of religious art. This distinction is rarely conferred and this man was, as far as is known, the only one so honored in Germany up to that time." The side shrines were preserved from the original wooden building, purchased from the Philips Company of Dubuque, Iowa in 1909. The emblems of the Apostles' Creed and other paintings on the chapel's ceilings and walls were painted by Alex Linenberger and Associates of Hays, Kansas in 1947.
caption: Chapel exterior
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