Churches of the West

St. Leo's history is nicely explained by the National Registry of Historic Places photograph included above.  This beautiful chu...

This is St. Benedict Catholic Church in Roundup Montana. The church is built in a fairly modern style, although I do not know the year of...

This is, admittedly, an odd photograph, and not intended to be disrespectful, but it is a bit startling in a way.  This is The Father'...

An unusual one for us here today, but a shout out to another one of our blogs.  Note, on today's entry, all the churchmen listed in the ...

This Catholic Church in Hudson Wyoming was built in 1917.  In a way, it shows the limitations of travel at the time, as Hudson is quit...

This building obviously was built as a church, but no longer is used as one.  I don't know what its use is today.

     The First Baptist Church in Jeffrey City, Wyoming.  Other than its location, I don't know anything about it.

The default photo size has been increased on this blog, and so old entries will now appear larger.  If you had a favorite church here, there...

First Baptist Church in Tulsa Oklahoma, demonstrating an unusual combination of Romanesque styling and modern office building styling.

  This is Trinity Episcopal Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  It's a downtown church of classic Gothic styling, but otherwise I don&#...

This is the Boston Avenue United Methodist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  The church combines Gothic features with Art Deco features, refl...

This is the First Baptist Church in Yale, Oklahoma. This particular church style is surprising in this context. The town of Yale is fai...

This stone church is located in the small Oklahoma town of Yale.  In some ways, its appearance causes me to suspect that it was converted ...

This is Our Lady of the Pines in Story, Wyoming. This Catholic Church is served by the parish in Sheridan, Wyoming. This church is in...

This Catholic Church, served by the Parish in Buffalo, is a truly rural church being located on the highway leading east out of Kaycee, W...

This will, undoubtedly, be an unusual entry here. Where's the church? Well, this is where it was. This was the location of Ft. Phil ...

This is St. Mary's Catholic Church in the small town of Clearmont, Wyoming. This Mission church is served by the Catholic Parish in B...

I don't know anything about this church, but it's an older structure.

This is the Glendo Communit Church in Glendo Wyoming, a small Protestant church in this small town.

This is Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in the small town of Glendo, Wyoming. This church is served by the Parish in Douglas and was bu...

This is St. Joseph Catholic Church in Cheyenne, Wyoming, which is one of three Catholic Churches in Cheyenne (excluding the one on F. E. War...

This is the last of the old downtown Cheyenne Wyoming churches that needed to be added to the blog. I'm unaware of any other of these c...

Surprising effort at converting a house into a church, located in Casper Wyoming. The architecture here also leans on Byzantine elements.

Interesting architecture which appears to lean on some Byzantine elements, located in Buffalo Wyoming

This is the very impressive Our Lady of the Mountains in Jackson, Wyoming. The stone Romanesque church is located on a little under a cit...

These photographs, taken in waning light, depict St. John's Episcopal Church in Jackson, Wyoming. There are actually two churches on t...

This is the First Baptist Church in Jackson Wyoming. The photograph was taken in poor light, but the church is an impressive modern wooden ...

This is Our Lady of the Woods Catholic Church in Dubois, Wyoming, which is a mission church in the Catholic Diocese of Cheyenne served by t...

This is St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Dubois, Wyoming. The church was constructed in 1910, and has been added on to since that time.