St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church

On June 25, 2021 the Heritage Calgary board approved the following site to be updated to the Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources.

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St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church – 640 19 Avenue NW (Mount Pleasant)
Year Built: 1914-1915

Evaluated as a City-Wide Historic Resource

St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, built in 1914-15, is significant as a marker of the expansion of Calgary’s Roman Catholic parish system north of the Bow River and its development from barren prairie lands to thriving religious epicenter by the 1950s (Institutional Value – City Wide Significance).

St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church is valued as a well-preserved example of Gothic Revival church architecture in Calgary (Style Value – City Wide Significance).

St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church has significant community landmark value for its refined Gothic Revival architecture and as the only church in the area integrated into a residential context (Landmark Value – Community Wide Significance).

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