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The Our Lady of the Annunciation Chapel at Annunciation Priory in 
It was built in 1963 and is
Bismarck, North Dakota
Bismarck () is the capital of the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Burleigh County. It is the state's second-most populous city, after Fargo. The city's population was 73,622 in the 2020 census, while its metropolitan popula ...
, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 2020. It is located at 7500 University Drive and is the chapel of University of Mary
The University of Mary (UMary or simply Mary) is a private, Benedictine university near Bismarck, North Dakota. It was established in 1959 as Mary College.
The university is the largest degree-granting institution in western North Dakota. It ha ...
.
It is a work of world-class modernist architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...
Marcel Breuer
Marcel Lajos Breuer ( ; 21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981), was a Hungarian-born modernist architect and furniture designer.
At the Bauhaus he designed the Wassily Chair and the Cesca Chair, which ''The New York Times'' have called some of the most im ...
. He termed this chapel his "jewel on the prairie."
It was built in 1963 and is Brutalist
Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era. Brutalist buildings are characterised by Minimalism (art), minimalist constructions th ...
in style. It has a pipe organ
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called ''wind'') through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ''ranks ...
of 1,641 pipes. The chapel can seat 500 persons.
See also
*Annunciation Monastery (University of Mary)
Annunciation Monastery is a Benedictine monastery in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA associated with the University of Mary. The monastery's building was designed by noted modernist architect Marcel Breuer and constructed from 1959 to 1963. The project ...
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Roman Catholic churches completed in 1963 Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in North Dakota National Register of Historic Places in Bismarck, North Dakota Brutalist architecture in the United States University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Dakota 1963 establishments in North Dakota Modernist architecture in North Dakota University and college chapels in the United States University of Mary Roman Catholic chapels in the United States Marcel Breuer buildings {{NorthDakota-NRHP-stub