Holy Family Church - Woonsocket, Rhode Island
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BruceS
N 41° 59.701 W 071° 31.466
19T E 290908 N 4652305
Historic Catholic Church in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
Waymark Code: WM5154
Location: Rhode Island, United States
Date Posted: 10/24/2008
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Holy Family Church (Sainte Famille, French R.C.), 414-420 S. Main St., is
a structure of brick with white trim. Romanesque in design, it is rectangular in
plan and has a large well-proportioned arcaded porch; the three white trimmed
arches of the porch are flanked by columns and lead to the entrance doors.
Surmounting the entrance porch and some- what overpowering in scale is a tower
of two stages The first stage, rising to the level of the roof ridge, is square
in plan and has tall arched windows on three sides; the upper stage of the tower
has corner turrets and a louvered arched opening on each side of the belfry.
Terminating the whole is a dormered spire topped with a cross.
- Rhode Island: A Guide to the Smallest State, 1937, Woonsocket section, pg. 316
The Holy Family Church is much as described in the Guide. The church
built in 1909 to serve the growing French-Canadian population in Woonsocket.
The church continues as an active parish in the Diocese of Providence.