St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Davenport, Iowa)

Its former parish church is located in the west end of Davenport, Iowa, United States.

It was named for St. Kunigunda, and served the German immigrants who settled in the western part of the city.

[3] A stone building was dedicated May 25, 1856 by the parish's pastor Father Flammang, who conducted the services in Latin and German.

It was at this time that the parish name was changed to St. Joseph, probably because if its proximity to St. Mary's Church which was built two blocks to the west in 1867.

It is possible that this building was converted into the convent and continues to stand, radically modified, behind the church.

The communion rail was removed and a new altar, which allowed the priest to face the congregation, was put in place.

By the 1970s sizeable numbers of Mexican Americans began moving into the area, and a liturgy in Spanish was added.

The One Eighty ministry acquired the entire St. Joseph Parish property in 2016 as their headquarters.

[8] Davenport architect Victor Huot designed St. Joseph's in the High Victorian Gothic style.

The building is a Basilica-plan church with its main entrance at the base of the gable-end tower.

The tower itself features a tall, slender spire that rises above sharply-drawn gables on the bell-chamber.

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Former school building