Immaculate Heart of Mary Church (North Little Rock, Arkansas)
Immaculate Heart of Mary Church | |
Location in Arkansas | |
Location | 7006 Jasna Gora Drive |
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Nearest city | North Little Rock, Arkansas |
Coordinates | 34°52′36″N 92°20′32″W / 34.87667°N 92.34222°WCoordinates: 34°52′36″N 92°20′32″W / 34.87667°N 92.34222°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1932 |
Architect | Thompson, Sanders & Ginocchio |
Architectural style | Late Gothic Revival |
Website | http://www.ihmnlr.org |
MPS | Thompson, Charles L., Design Collection TR |
NRHP reference No. | 82000901[1] |
Added to NRHP | December 22, 1982 |
The Immaculate Heart of Mary Church is a historic Roman Catholic church in northern Pulaski County, Arkansas. It is located off Arkansas Highway 365 on Blue Hill (Jasna Gora) in Marche, north of North Little Rock.
History[]
In 1878, Father Anthony Jaworski, a Polish priest from the Holy Ghost Fathers came to Marche. He led the efforts to establish a parish and build the first church. The first structure was a small wooden chapel built on a large hill. The new parish was named the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the hill was named Jasna Gora or "Blue Hill" after the shrine in Poland. In 1896, a larger church was built and served the parish until it was destroyed by fire. It was replaced by the current church building in 1932.
The current church building is a Gothic Revival structure, built out of brick on a stone foundation. It was designed by the noted Arkansas architect Charles L. Thompson, and was completed in 1932.[2]
The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]
See also[]
- Immaculate Heart of Mary School (Marche, Arkansas)
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Pulaski County, Arkansas
References[]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Immaculate Heart of Mary Church". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
- Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Little Rock
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
- Gothic Revival church buildings in Arkansas
- Roman Catholic churches completed in 1932
- Churches in Pulaski County, Arkansas
- National Register of Historic Places in Pulaski County, Arkansas
- 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States
- Pulaski County, Arkansas Registered Historic Place stubs
- Arkansas church stubs