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Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church

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1943, D. E. Bond, designer-builder. W. Gallego St. and S. 5th St.

Rock construction attained its apotheosis in Alpine at Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, a twin-towered, idiosyncratic Gothic Revival design. The multicolored, randomly sized stonework from local quarries was a favorite material in Alpine. Towers bracket the facade with its pointed arches outlined in white stone for the entrance, an upper niche with a Mary and Child statue, and three crenellation-like arches forming the gable.

Alpine south of the railroad tracks historically was the town’s “Mexican” neighborhood. The side-gabled, adobe-built double house at the northeast corner of S. 5th Street and E. Avenue F exemplifies the most representative Mexican vernacular house type of the Big Bend adobe belt.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church", [Alpine, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-FV9.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 439-439.

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