St. Gabriel's Catholic Parish Complex

St. Gabriel's Catholic Parish Complex is a historic Roman Catholic church complex located at 122-142 S. Wyoming Street in Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania within the Diocese of Scranton.

St. Gabriel's Catholic Parish Complex
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Church in 2013
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Location	122-142 S. Wyoming St., Hazleton, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°56′55″N 75°58′20″W
Area	1.3 acres (0.53 ha)
Built	1907-1908, 1925, 1937
Architect	Sheridan, Peter B.; DePace, Anthony J.
Architectural style	Gothic Revival, Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.	02000889[1]
Added to NRHP	August 22, 2002

Description

The St. Gabriel's complex consists of the church (1925), rectory (1907-1908), and former convent (1937). The church is a high French Gothic Revival steel frame building clad in pink granite ashlar with Indiana limestone trim. It features twin bell towers with triple entrance portals at the front facade. The rectory is a three-story, wood-frame building in the Colonial Revival style. The convent was designed by architect Anthony J. DePace (1892–1977), and is a four-story building clad in granite ashlar and limestone. It was converted to affordable apartments and offices in 1998–1999. The church was founded in 1855.^[2] It merged with Annunciation Parish. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.^[1]

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  Convent building in 2013
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  Postcard c. 1940