Immaculate Conception Church (Pawhuska, Oklahoma)

Immaculate Conception Church is a historic Roman Catholic church building at 1314 Lynn Avenue in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. It was built in 1910 and added to the National Register in 1979.[1]

Immaculate Conception Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	1314 Lynn Ave., Pawhuska, Oklahoma
Coordinates	36°40′17″N 96°19′53″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1910
Architect	Bavarian Art Glass Co. of Munich; Father Edward
NRHP reference No.	79002015[1]
Added to NRHP	May 21, 1979

It is a red brick cruciform church building which is significant mostly for its unusual stained glass windows designed by the Bavarian Art Glass Company of Munich, given dispensation to be placed in the church by special permission of the pope.[2]

One of the two largest shows Columbus arriving in the New World and being met by Indians. The other shows the arrival of Father Shoemaker to meet the Osage tribe in Kansas, before the tribe was moved to the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).[2]

The church and its stained glass windows were planned by Father Edward Van Waesberghe, who also directly helped in its construction.[2]

The "Bavarian Art Glass Co. of Munich" mentioned may be what is otherwise known as the Royal Bavarian Stained Glass Manufactory, in Munich, Germany, or the Royal Bavarian Stained Glass Manufactory, Munich or the Franz Mayer & Co..

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Immaculate Conception Church / Pawhuska Catholic Church". National Park Service. Retrieved September 27, 2019. With accompanying two photos from 1978