Henry Schlacks

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Name Henry Schlacks Role Architect		Died January 6, 1938

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Henry J. Schlacks (July 4, 1867 – January 6, 1938) was an ecclesiologist 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 and designed several buildings in the Chicago area.

Among the Churches that Schlacks designed are

Chicago:

St. Adalbert Church

St. Anthony Church

St. Boniface Church

St. Gelasius Church

St. Ignatius Church

St. Ita Church

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)