Henry J. Schlacks was an ecclesiologist

Ecclesiology

Today, ecclesiology usually refers to the theological study of the Christian church. However when the word was coined in the late 1830s, it was defined as the science of the building and decoration of churches and it is still, though rarely, used in this sense.In its theological sense, ecclesiology...

 from Chicago, Illinois, 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

University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States...

 and designed several buildings in the Chicago area.

Among the Churches that Schlacks designed are

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

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• St. Adalbert Church
  St. Adalbert's in Chicago
  St. Adalbert Church is a historic church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago located in Chicago, Illinois.It is a prime example of the so-called 'Polish Cathedral style' of churches in both its opulence and grand scale. The church is located on 17th Street between Paulina Street and...
  
  
• St. Anthony Church
• St. Boniface Church
• St. Gelasius Church
• St. Ignatius Church
• St. Ita Church
  St. Ita's Church
  St. Ita's Church is a Roman Catholic church in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago. The church building was designed by Henry J. Schlacks in the Neo-Gothic style and completed in 1927.-External links:* at Emporis* from the Edgewater Historical Society...
  
  
• St. John of God Church
• St. Mary of the Lake Church
• St. Paul Church
• St. Martin of Tours Church (Schlacks was supervising architect for this building, plans supplied by a German architect)

• Angel Gurdian Croation Catholic Mission Church

Evanston, Il

• St. Nicholas Church

Forest Park, Illinois

Forest Park, Illinois

Forest Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago in the United States. The population was 15,688 at the 2000 census...

• St. John Lutheran Church

Oak Park, Illinois

Oak Park, Illinois

Oak Park, Illinois is a suburb bordering the west side of the city of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is the twenty-fifth largest municipality in Illinois. Oak Park has easy access to downtown Chicago due to public transportation such as the Chicago 'L' Blue and Green lines,...

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• St. Edmund Church

Skokie, Illinois

Skokie, Illinois

Skokie is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Its name comes from a Native American word for "fire". A Chicago suburb, for many years Skokie promoted itself as "The World's Largest Village". Its population, per the 2000 census, was 63,348...

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• St. Peter Church

Indianapolis, IN

• St. Joan of Arc Church

Topeka, KS

• Holy Name-Mater Dei Church

Cincinnati, OH

• St. Mark Church

External links

• Architectural Photographs of the Churches of HJ Schlacks