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• Collection: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

• Title: Gesu Catholic Church, 118 Northeast Second Street, Miami, Miami-Dade County, FL
• Other Title: The Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church
• Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
• Related Names:
     St. John Construction Company
     Williams, Orin T
     Lopez, Ricardo , faculty sponsor
     Cohen, Matthew , delineator
     Madureira, Carolina , delineator
     Ragusa, Ariana , delineator
     Kollar, Brendan , delineator
     Lal, Shefali , delineator
     Margarita, Ariana , delineator
     McGee, Sarah , delineator
     Varghese, Simi , delineator
     Vela, Jose A, III , delineator
     Veliz, Francela , delineator
     Wine, Mara , delineator
• Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
• Medium: Measured Drawing(s): 10
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
  
• Call Number: HABS FL-584
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • 2013 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention
  • Significance: Gesu Catholic Church was founded as a church in 1896, just months before the City of Miami was incorporated. Its complete name, The Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church, we Italianized simply to Gesu, which translates to Jesus. It is tended to by the Roman Catholic order known as the Jesuits, the Society of Jesus, whose emblem containing the abbreviation -I.H.S.- is found in cast ironwork throughout the building. The Mother Church of the Society of Jesus, also named Gesu, was built in 1580 in Rome on the spot where Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the order, had once prayed before an image of the Holy Virgin. That church, originally designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and later revised by Giacomo della Porta, ushered in the Baroque style to architecture, and served as a model for countless Jesuit church around the world, particularly in the Americas. In the 1920s, Miami was booming and the downtown was transforming from a town of wood framed office buildings and small buildings to one of steel framed office buildings that would give shape to the city's recent style. Gesu Church is a rectangular steel frame building on the corner of an urban block. with a large portico and central tower. The structural floor is reinforced concrete finished with terazzo while the walls incorporate terra cotta blocks with a stucco finish on the exterior and framed plaster on the interior. It has a basement half a level down from the sidewalk and the main floor is half a level up, accessed by stairs to the portico which are pressed up against the corner. Like the Gesu in Rome, there is no narthex and there are no aisles. Thanks to the wide span of the steel truss roof, there are no interior columns to interfere with one's attention being drawn to the altar, where the ceremony of the mass is focused...
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1946
  • Survey number: HABS FL-584
  • Building/structure dates: 1925 Initial Construction
  • National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000617
• Subjects:
  • Catholic churches
  • churches
  • Jesuit (Christian order)
  • religions
• Place:
  • Florida -- Miami-Dade County -- Miami
• Latitude/Longitude: 25.775979, -80.191623
• Collections:
  • Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
• Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: HABS FL-584
• Medium: Measured Drawing(s): 10

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