Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
Basilica of St. Louis, King of France (the old cathedral), Third and Walnut Sts., St. Louis, Mo.
[ca. 1960–1979]
Present church begun in 1831 on property set aside for religious use when St. Louis was founded in 1764. The old cathedral was once the mother church for a diocese almost as vast as the entire American West. "The Crucifixion" painted by Charles F. Quest, St Louisan, is a reproduction from the original by Diego Velazques 1628-1639 now in the Prado, Madrid.
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