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-gable-roofed -boring on east, west & south -deep set windows east, west, south -thick wattle & daub walls -front portico

   -Greek Revival (modified Tuscan order)
   -cornice w/ triglyphs on each of 6 columns
   -pediment modified Baroque
   -4 wooden urns on steps
   -cross above
   -Italianate sunburst surrounds bulls eye window

-91'10" long -40'8" wide -52'2" above grade -rock foundation

   -4' thick
   -originally set w/ mud, now masonry mortar

-huge wooden uprights

   - 18" - 22" square
   - 24' long

-horizontal beams mortised into uprights -willow saplings interlaced in holes drilled in uprights

    -wild grass woven around saplings
    -mud spread over surface

-wooden pegs -1865 added clapboard exterior (Father Caruana) -now yellow with white trim -rafters 10-12" sq -mortised, tenoned and pinoned joints -floor large hand hewn boards, prob installed 1860's -no pews during missionary period (indians pref floor) -interior wall panels prob insyalled 1865 w/ ext clapboards -17 panels in flat ceiling

   -carved by Br Huybrechts

-frames for stations of cross carved by Br Huybrechts -altar attrib to Fr Ravalli

   -hand carved woods
   -no nails
   -painted shades of green to simulate marble

-walls covred with patterned cloth -ceilings of side altars cloth overe wooden framework -half dome ceiling above main altar

   -decorated in hand carved and painted wood
   -imitation Greek Revival style
   -base of dome above fabric walls has Greek Key pattern
   -painted white with green and gold trim

-main altar

   -above hangs painting of Christ and the Sacred Heart suspended from an iron crown decorated with fleur-de-lis made from   tin cans (prob)

-statues on either side carved by Fr Ravalli from solid blocks of wood -some paintings from Europe, some by Fr Ravalli -sketch about 1860 by Fr Gilmore includes

   -church
   -parsonage
   -parsonage barn
   -cabin for brothers
   -cabin for travelers
   -kitchen
   -repair shop
   -blacksmith & harness shop
   -grist mill
   -Coeur d'Alene dwellings (mat lodges, tepis, log cabins)
   -Coeur d'Alene cemetery

-archaeological confirmation of some wooden buildings and aboriginal settlement -approx 300 indians -oldest surviving mission church in Pacific NW -oldest extant bldg in Idaho

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