Sentimental (Church Record) Sunday: St. Michael Catholic Church, Old Town, Chicago - Miscellaneous Exterior

While visiting my son in Chicago in August 2017, I was able to easily walk from the daylight basement apartment where we were staying in Lincoln Park to St. Michael Catholic Church in Old Town.  I made a couple trips there over the week we were visiting.  So far I have written about the exterior and some of its details, as well as a family connection at the rectory doors, the interior in general, the main altar (the High Altar of Angels), and the four other altars in or next to the sanctuary of the church.  I also wrote about the stained glass windows on the west side as well as those on the east side and in the narthex/vestibule area.  Last week I wrote about miscellaneous interior features.  Today's post is the final one on this church, about miscellaneous outdoor features.  Click on all photos to make them larger.

Just outside the front entrance is the third major statue of the church's namesake, St. Michael the Archangel (the other two statues are over the entrance door, and at the top of the main altar).  His foot rests on a defeated Lucifer.

The inscription on the base reads:  "St. Michael + Archangel assist us in our battles against the evils of the day. Our dead are not unknown soldiers. We know who they are and wither they seek to go.  Dedicated to the glory of God by St. Michael Post No. 201 Catholic War Veterans U.S.A. June 14, 1959"

Above and below:  More views of the statue of St. Michael outside the entrance.

The former church meeting hall, just east of the church entrance and constructed in 1899, was converted to six residential units in 1987.

Across from the church entrance is the current parish hall, which is the former convent, built in 1892.  It has some beautiful features like stone carvings...

...and leaded glass windows.

Finally, having nothing to do with the church but posted simply because it is located right outside the entrance and I thought it was pretty, particularly at sunset - "Genesis," a stainless steel sculpture by Jaci Willis, part of the Chicago Sculpture Exhibit.

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