Picture of Father Crowe

Title: Picture of Father Crowe
Description: Father Crowe was the founding reverend of St. Ita's church. He gathered 53 parishioner families and held the inaugural mass in the guild hall before the church even had its own frame building. During the ensuing frame building, Father Crowe established the convent that would run the school in the basement of the frame church. Eventually, the parish would grow so much that Father Crowe would plead the archdiocese to commission a church to be designed and built. This church was built in the French Gothic style and it is still standing over 100 years later.

Crowe unfortunately died after being struck as a pedestrian in a hit and run. This image memorializes him and his contributions to St. Ita.
Is Part Of: St. Ita Roman Catholic Church; Mary, Mother of God Roman Catholic Parish
Denomination: en Roman Catholic Church
Date: 1925
Source: Parish Heritage Center Mary, Mother of God
Language: English
City: Chicago
Neighborhood: en Edgewater
Rights: Item Courtesy of Mary, Mother of God
Contributor: Isaiah Dingus, Frannie Dreher