Joseph William McCarthy, AIA, was an architect in the early 20th century most famous for his work on buildings for the Roman Catholic Church.
Others with whom he worked in the late 1950s as "Joseph W. McCarthy and Associates" included Richard R. Reedy and Max A. Eckert.
[4] McCarthy is credited with at least 41 churches in addition to schools, hospitals, convents and other buildings.
St. Carthage Roman Catholic Church and School, located at 7320 S. Yale Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, was built 1920-1921 and is an example of a Renaissance Revival style religious facility designed by McCarthy.
[9] He was also the architect of record for the Saint Philip Neri Church (1928), on East 72nd Street, in Chicago's south side, a high rise on 1540 North Lake Drive (17 floors), opened 1926, and the Corpus Christi Church, constructed in 1916, on East 49th Street, in Chicago's south side.