Immaculata High School
- Architect
- Barry Byrne
- Year
- 1921
- Style
- Streamline Moderne
- City
- Chicago, IL
Immaculata High School was an all-girls Catholic high school in Chicago, designed in 1921 by Prairie School architect Barry Byrne, a former apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright. It operated from 1921 to 1981 and still stands at Irving Park Road and Marine Drive, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 and designated a Chicago Landmark in 1983.
the building
The missing Madonna. A sculpture of the Virgin Mary once stood above the school's entrance, the work of Alfonso Iannelli, Byrne's frequent design collaborator. It has since been removed.
the style
Byrne designed the school in a Moderne idiom, a notable departure for an architect otherwise associated with the Prairie School and his early training under Frank Lloyd Wright.
More on Streamline Modernethe architect
Barry Byrne apprenticed under Frank Lloyd Wright early in his career before becoming known as a Prairie School architect in his own right. At Immaculata he again worked with sculptor Alfonso Iannelli, a frequent collaborator.
significance
The school's records are now held at the Women and Leadership Archives. Its alumnae include Mildred Agnes Martínez Prevost, mother of Pope Leo XIV.
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