St. Boniface Church, Convent and Rectory - Uniontown, WA
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The St. Boniface Church, Convent and Rectory in Uniontown.
Waymark Code: WMVXJE
Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 06/07/2017
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"Rolling wheat country known as "The Palouse" frames the small southeastern Washington community of Uniontown, where St. Boniface Catholic Church is a commanding architectural presence on a hill overlooking town. Visible for several miles before arrival, the church complex is symbolic of the predominately German Catholic heritage of Uniontown. The large brick church spouts twin spires from a Romanesque Revival program of broad arches, corbelled brickwork and buttresses. Flanking the church along St. Boniface Street are a modest, two-story rectory to the south, and a larger, two-and-a-half-story convent to the north. In spite of slightly varying styles found among the three buildings, overall uniformity is achieved through the use of red brick walls and rock-faced concrete and stone accents.
The three properties are aligned along St. Boniface Street and are preceded by large expanses of grass, original sidewalks, and a number of mature fir trees. The back of the complex is a grass yard which slopes gently away toward cultivated fields. A small grotto of native basalt is located behind the former convent building. Additional fir trees skirt the rear'margin of the property, but are not dense enough to obscure the rural vistas of the Palouse country." (
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