St. Luke's Catholic Church is a historic

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church at 508 W. Pine in

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. It is attended from Holy Redeemer Church in

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, in the

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. The historic structure was built in 1907, following a simple L-shaped plan with

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styling. The exterior is concrete blocks that have been treated to look like

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stone. It was originally built for the

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and called St. Mary's Church, but it never had a large congregation, and services ended in the late 1920s. It was vacant until its purchase in 1948 by the

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, which named it St. Luke's. The church was listed on the

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in 1998.

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