| Additional Information: | 2023 - St. Philip’s the Apostle Parish was established by the Green Bay Diocese in 1938 to meet the demands of a growing population. The parish initially had 268 families in the Town of Preble and constructed a Church, School, and Rectory in 1939. The complex cost $163,500 to build and the school was staffed by the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity from Manitowoc. A school addition, immediately behind the church, and a convent on the upper floors of the school, were completed in 1949. The parish was one of the first of its kind in the area. Not only was it located at the suburban edge of Preble when established, but it was also not associated with the larger, older, and ethnically aligned Catholic parishes that existed in Green Bay at the time. In 1959, a wing addition to the school on the south side of the complex, creating a T-plan was added. This addition was designed as a near duplicate of the original 1939 school building. The addition included eight classrooms, a library, a lounge, a hall, and an elevator. At the same time, the windows on the school and church were replaced and the convent expanded. The addition, as well as the church, first school building, and rectory, were all designed by Berners’ Schober Architects. By the 1960s the parish school had nearly 900 students and 24 teachers and the church had nearly 2,000 parishioners. St. Philip’s school ended providing classes in 2006 and the building is presently used by the Green Bay Public School District as an Early Learning Center. In 2009, the interior of the church and rectory was remodeled.
Large, later combination church and school done in late interpretation of the Neo-Gothic Revival style. The gable church has three segmental arched splayed entrance doors, each with cut stone surrounds done in an in-and-out pattern. The side walls of the nave of the church have large segmental arched-roofed bay windows lighting the interior. Each bay has a cut stone surround about the large stained glass window it contains. A small copper clad roof spire is placed on the apex of the main roof. The church is joined to a large two-and-a-half-story rectangular brick school building wing having a slate covered hip roof with hip roofed dormers inset into the main slopes of the roof. The dormers have brick side walls. The entrance to the school is through a large segmental arched entrance with a cut stone surround which is on the east facing of the wing.
In 1959, a similar school building was added to the south facing facade of the original structure, giving the whole a T plan. The later addition almost exactly duplicates the original 1939 one. In addition, all windows on the school were later modernized with smaller units fit into the original openings.
Related building: Church rectory building separately surveyed as (BR 126/10). Also small hip roofed brick garage building. |
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| Bibliographic References: | 2023 - The Compass, September 17, 2014.
(A) Sanborn-Perris Map Co., Inc. Fire Insurance Map of Green Bay, Wisconsin. New York, 1957.
(B) Cornerstone of building.
(C) Berners-Schober, Assoc., Inc. Archives Stick No. 207. |
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