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In 1956, the Sisters of Providence in Great Falls selected fledgling Great Falls architects George Page and Vincent Werner to design what became the largest concentration of Modernist buildings in Montana. Historian Patty Dean and architect Lesley Gilmore investigate how the Cold War values
of the Catholic Church aligned with Modernist aesthetics as embodied by
the campus’s original eleven buildings.
In 1956, the Sisters of Providence in Great Falls selected fledgling Great Falls architects George Page and Vincent Werner to design what became the largest concentration of Modernist buildings in Montana. Historian Patty Dean and architect Lesley Gilmore investigate how the Cold War values
of the Catholic Church aligned with Modernist aesthetics as embodied by
the campus’s original eleven buildings.
