St. Joseph Parish Complex

Infobox_nrhp | name =Saint Joseph Parish Complex
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location= Omaha, Nebraska
lat_degrees = 41
lat_minutes = 14
lat_seconds = 29.94
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 95
long_minutes = 56
long_seconds = 14.81
long_direction = W
locmapin = Nebraska
area =
built =1896
architect= Brother Adrian Wewer, Brother Leonard Darscheid, et al.
architecture= Tudor Revival, Other, Romanesque
added = July 17, 1986
governing_body = Private
refnum=86001716cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

The Saint Joseph Parish Complex is located at 1730 South Sixteenth Street in South Omaha, Nebraska. Established in 1886, the congregation was founded "to serve Omaha's German-speaking Catholics." St. Joseph's continues with parishioners of German heritage comprising a large percentage of the church's membership.

The church was located in an area of German Catholics that was centered on South 16th Street and Center Street, and which was exclusive of Protestant Germans, who generally settled in a concentration centered on South 11th Street and Center Street where they built a German Methodist Episcopal Church in 1886. [Mead and Hunt. (2001) " [http://www.nebraskahistory.org/histpres/reports/omaha_so_central.pdf Reconnaissance survey of portions of south central Omaha] ". City of Omaha. p 6. Retrieved 1/20/08.]

The complex includes a church, a friary, convent, and two school buildings. The friary, built in 1886, was planned by the same Brother who designed the convent and school in 1901. In 1928 a second school building was designed by Omaha architect Jacob Nachtigall. [ [http://www.nebraskahistory.org/histpres/nebraska/douglas2.htm "More Nebraska National Register Places in Douglas County"] , Nebraska State Historical Society. Retrieved 1/20/08.]

ee also

* Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha
* List of churches in Omaha, Nebraska

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