Talk about a vision: Built in 1889, this Howard County Episcopal church had fallen upon years of abandonment after its congregation formed a new church. Enter Stacia Smith. She was smitten with the ...

Traditional church liturgical art and design seem to be making a return after decades of taking a back seat to contemporary approaches. Liturgical artist and designer Anja Longenecker is on a path “to ...

Vaulted ceilings, stained-glass windows, brickwork, exposed beams and ceiling turnbuckles – historical details had to be carefully restored to preserve the soul of the place while incorporating all ...

A decade later, in 2007, a year after my grandfather passed away, I was home visiting my parents. My father, my uncle and I went over to his church. It had fallen into disrepair. When I say “fallen,” ...

At Lucas, eight stories of condos have been inserted into the Gothic shell of the former German Trinity Catholic Church. Four floors of glass-and-steel-enclosed apartments rise above the late ...

What was once the First Italian Methodist Episcopal Church on a quiet residential street in Little Italy in southwest Chicago has been reinvented into a streamlined and contemporary seven-bedroom, six ...