Churches of the West

When I took this photograph, it was the location of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Gillette, Wyoming. As noted at the time, I had no id...

I'm updating, and reposting, this entry, as I was traveling through Gillette recently and found that this location was for sale, ...

Holscher's Hub: The Conversion of St. Paul : The Conversion of St. Paul by Caravaggio. January 25 is the memorial of the Conversion ...

Lex Anteinternet: January 24. St. Francis De Sales : Painting of St. Francis de Sales, public domain in the United States. Today, January...

Lex Anteinternet: What people read : We've had this blog up for a couple of years now, with the first posts being in 2009 . There were n...

I thought that this was a church, and I still suspect that it serves this function, but it is also a Christian school, located in Lewist...

This is the First Presbyterian Church in Lewistown Montana.  The Gothic style church was built in 1917. The same church, early in the ...

The United Methodist Church in Grass Lodge, Montana. All photos this date from our Flickr Site .

Unidentified Prairie Gothic style church in Hanna, Wyoming.

This is St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Hanna Wyoming, which according to the sign on the building was built in 1922.  They style is s...

This is St. Malachy's Catholic Mission Church in Medicine Bow, Wyoming. The Church is served by the parish in Saratoga Wyoming.

This is an old Prairie Gothic style church in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, but other than that, I don't know anything about it. All phot...

This is Saint Mary's Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Denver Colorado. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is a non-Chalce...

It took me some time to figure out what this building is, or was. Given the styling, I thought perhaps it had been built as an Eastern Rit...

Would anyone happen to recognize the location of this photograph?  It's been suggested to me that it may have been taken at the Shrine...

(4) D.2211 - Cardinal outside the Catholic Church of the Irish Brigade - First World War 'Official Photographs' > Other visitors ...

This is the second time I've posted a photo of a bare remnant of a church, but in this case, it's a much more recent structure...

I did a very poor job of photographing this church, as I failed to really investigate the full architecture at the time. What is visible ...

This is the First Christian Church in Sidney Nebraska.  Other than that, I don't know anything about this church.

This is St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Sidney, Nebraska.  It's a striking church that was built in 1913, although I wonder i...

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...