Henry Schlacks
Henry John Schlacks was primarily known as an ecclesiologist in a 19th Century sense of the word, meaning one who designs and decorates churches. He was from Chicago, Illinois, and is considered by many to be the finest of Chicago's church architects. Schlacks trained at MIT and in the offices of Adler & Sullivan before starting his own practice. He founded the Architecture Department at the University of Notre Dame and designed several buildings in the Chicago area.
Churches
Among the Churches that Schlacks designed are:Chicago:
- St. Adalbert Church
- St. Anthony Church
- St. Boniface Church
- St. Clara Church
- St. Ignatius Church
- St. Ita Church
- St. [John of God in Chicago|St. John of God Church]
- St. Mary of the Lake Church, 1917
- St. Paul Church
- St. Martin of Tours Church
- Angel Gurdian Croatian Catholic Mission Church
- St. Nicholas Church
- St. John Lutheran Church
- St. Edmund Church
- St. Peter Church
- St. Joan of Arc Church
- Holy Name-Mater Dei Church
- St. Mark Church
Other works
- Denver and [Rio Grande Western Railroad Depot (Grand Junction, Colorado)|Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Depot], Grand Junction, Colorado, 1906
- Denver & Rio Grande Western Depot, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1910
- Idaho Building (Boise, Idaho)
- Wm. J. Cassidy Tire Building, Chicago, Illinois, 1902