
German-born Schickel built churches for German Catholic congregations throughout the United States with a concentration in New York, generally building High Victorian Gothic hall-churches with prominent central towers, as here. The immense Laurel Run redstone church and the adjacent school (1913, Reilly and Schroeder) attest to the size of the Catholic community at the end of the nineteenth century. The city's principal Catholic churches (the other being St. Mary's; LU22) were built near the industrial quarter of the town, while the more socially prominent