Catholic Churches:

Other Ecclesiastical Buildings:

Other Buildings:

From its fairly small beginnings, this tour has grown to include almost 40 sites and buildings. Almost half are related to the Catholic Church, due to its wide sponsorship of construction in the 1950s and 1960s, its generally good stewardship of its buildings, and the ease of discovering them online.

The buildings span from 1938 into the 1970s, and cover a large range of styles. Modernism, as intended by its originators, was not even about a "style", but a method of problem-solving; that approach can be seen in a number of buildings here that are wholey unique creations. Others capture the spirit of their era: a sleek and stylized future, a combination of mass production and craft, a flowering of technology, creativity and possibility.... a movement known today as Mid-Century Modern.

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