Sacred Heart Cathedral - Dodge City, Kansas
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BruceS
N 37° 45.388 W 100° 01.004
14S E 410437 N 4179281
Former Catholic Cathedral in Dodge City, Kansas.
Waymark Code: WMEGJ4
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 05/27/2012
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The Sacred Hearts parish was established in 1883. The parish had an earlier wood frame church which it outgrew. The Sacred Hearts church was designed by the renowned and prolific collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings architect Ralph Cram of the firm Cram & Ferguson in Spanish Colonial Revival. The church was completed in 1916.
The exterior walls of the Cathedral are off-white stucco with a red-clay tile roof. The entrance is surrounded by limestone elaborately cared in a Spanish Baroque style. Above the entrance is a quatrefoil-star window.
On May 19, 1951 the Diocese of Dodge City was established and Sacred Hearts Church was elevated to Sacred Hearts Cathedral. On December 9, 2001 the Sacred Heart and Our Lady of Guadalupe parishes in Dodge City merged at the completion of a new cathedral, Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Sacred Heart Cathedral was retained continues to named the Sacred Heart Cathedral and is used by the Sacred Heart School.
Type of Church: Cathedral
Status of Building: Actively in use for worship
Date of organization: 01/01/1883
Date of building construction: 01/01/1916
Dominant Architectural Style: Spanish Colonial Revival
Diocese: Diocese of Dodge City
Address/Location:
903-905 Central Avenue
Dodge City, Kansas
Relvant Web Site: [Web Link]
Associated Shrines, Art, etc.: Not listed
Archdiocese: Not listed
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