Digital Exhibits

Catholic Church, Hillsboro

Photograph of a wooden church with a steep, gabled roof and a square bell tower at the front. The church is mid-toned with white moldings and other decorative accents. Arched windows with double panes bracket the front porch, which has a gabled roof with a white cross on its pediment. Stairs with railings lead up on either side of the porch. Windows down the side of the church alternate double paned arched with triple panes, and the bell tower has a slightly smaller arched window with the double-paned construction. The bell tower extends from the porch to just above the roofline of the main building, and is topped with an octagonal belfry built of dormer windows and topped with a tall, sloping steeple of alternating dark and light bands of shingles. On the very top is a heavily carved square cross. A smaller gabled section giving the building a t-shape projects from the rear, and has a chimney and a single, double-paned arched window on the visible end. The minimal lot around the church has some grass, while the street appears to be muddy dirt. Sidewalks run past the church on both visible sides, and a power pole rises up about twenty feet in front of the church. There is a small cross-bar and a single power line extending from the top of the pole. The cross-bar of another pole protrudes into the left side of the image and another two-story building juts into the image on that same side.

[Front] Catholic Church, Hillsboro, OR

circa 1900s

Public architecture

Catholic church buildings

Communities

Social History

Cultural Studies

Catholicism

Hillsboro, Oregon

photographic prints

English

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