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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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