Immaculate Conception Church (Sparks, Nevada)

Immaculate Conception Church

View from southwest, across Pyramid Way
Location 528 Pyramid Way, Sparks, Nevada
Coordinates 39°32′18.35″N 119°45′9.3″W / 39.5384306°N 119.752583°W / 39.5384306; -119.752583Coordinates: 39°32′18.35″N 119°45′9.3″W / 39.5384306°N 119.752583°W / 39.5384306; -119.752583
Area less than one acre
Built 1932
Architect DeLongchamps,Frederick J.
Architectural style Mediterranean Revival
MPS Architecture of Frederick J. DeLongchamps TR
NRHP Reference # 92001700[1]
Added to NRHP December 23, 1992

The Immaculate Conception Church, located at 528 Pyramid Way in Sparks, Nevada, is a brick Roman Catholic church that was built in 1932 to replace an earlier church that was built in 1905 but destroyed by a fire in 1930.[2][3] It was designed by prolific Nevada architect Frederic J. DeLongchamps (1882-1969) in Mediterranean Revival architecture.[1][2]

It was used as a Catholic Church as late as 2004 when construction on a larger building was completed and the parish moved to that location.[4] When the building was photographed in 2014, it was operating under the name "Iglesia Cristiana Monte Sinai".[5]

The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1] The building was deemed significant as the oldest surviving Catholic church in Sparks, as one of the first built in Nevada after the state became a diocese under 1931 decree of Pope Pius XI, and architecturally as a relatively rare use of Mediterranean Revival style in Nevada and "one of the many outstanding works" of DeLongchamps.[6]:6

Its original form is "somewhat obscured" by a 1970 addition of a vestibule and porch on the front, added to provide handicapped access, but the addition was designed to be compatible architecturally.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 Nicoletta, Julie (2000). Buildings of Nevada. Oxford University Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-19-514139-9.
  3. ↑ Chiat, Marilyn J. (1997). America's Religious Architecture: Sacred Places for Every Community. John Wiley & Sons. p. 395. ISBN 978-0-471-14502-8.
  4. ↑ "Our History". Immaculate Conception Church.
  5. ↑ See photo
  6. 1 2 Ana Beth Koval, Patricia Lawrence-Dietz and Lucy Scheid (September 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Immaculate Conception Church" (PDF). National Park Service. and accompanying six photos


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