St. Thomas the Apostle Church | |
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| Location | 5472 S. Kimbark Ave., Chicago, Illinois |
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| Coordinates | 41°47′44″N 87°35′43″W / 41.79556°N 87.59528°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1922 |
| Architect | Barry Byrne |
| NRHP reference No. | 78001132[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 18, 1978 |
St. Thomas the Apostle Church is a historic site at 5472 S. Kimbark Avenue in Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois, at 55th Street.
A Roman Catholic church of the Archdiocese of Chicago, it was built in 1922 and opened in 1925 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It was designed by Barry Byrne, who was a student of Frank Lloyd Wright and incorporated elements from Wright's Prairie School of design and from the modernist movement. Byrne had previously built the convent at St. Thomas Apostle in 1919. It was built during a period of liturgical renewal that was just reaching the U.S.[2] It is often cited as anticipating the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council by some 40 years due to its projecting altar and lack of interior columns.[3]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Catholic New World - A church designed for the modernist movement". legacy.chicagocatholic.com. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
- ^ Michael, Vincent L. The Architecture of Barry Byrne (University of Illinois Press, 2013).