Immaculate Conception, Newport

In 1955, the Church of the Immaculata published a souvenir folder
of postcards to celebrate it's  centennial.  Those are the nine images below.

Church of the  Immaculate Conception  The Church	Church of the  Immaculate Conception  The Convent	Church of the  Immaculate Conception  The Interior

 

Church and School
From a Facebook post by Old Photos of Newport

 

Church of the Immaculate  Conception,  The Rectory	Church of the Immaculate Conception, The School (There are other views of the school on our Newport Schools page)

 

The Most Reverend William T. Malloy, D.D., Bishop of Covington	The Right Reverend Monsignor Gerhard H. Geisen, P.A. Pastor	Reverend Owen Patrick Gleeson, Assistant Pastor	Reverend Allen J. Meier, Assistant Pastor

In 1949, Immaculate Conception published a booklet celebrating the silver anniversary
 of Father Gerhard H. Geisen's at the church.  It had the following images:  

Looking southeast at  Central and Fifth	Immaculate Conception  Convent	Convent Chapel

 

Immaculate Conception Teaching Faculty Names are here.	Immaculate Conception School	Interior of Immaculate Conception

Ad's in Father Geisen's Anniversary Booklet included full pages from the Yorkshire Club, Latin Quarter,
Glenn Rendezvous, Beverly Hills, Club Flamingo, the West Side Cafe, and the Merchant's Club.

The Catholic Telegraph, July 4, 1857. Parlor Grove was an amusement park in Boone County.

The Rev. Paul Ryan published a comprehensive history of the Covington Diocese in 1954. His history had special sections on each of the churches in the Diocese. Immaculate Conception's here,	In 1926, the US Census Bureau counted church denominations   and their members.  The Newport results are here.
Immaculate Conception celebrates its jubilee in 1905	In 1887 they had a dedication ceremony for their new steeple.
The last mass at Immaculate Conception was at high noon on August 3, 1969.	The church faced north, on fifth, between Central and Columbia.   The rectory was to the immediate west of the church, on 5th.  The school was on Central, in back of the rectory, and across an alley.

 

Interior of Immaculate Conception 1937 Flood		Immaculate Conception 1937 Flood

 

This is a small section of a 1910 Sanborn Fire map, which will show you
where the various pieces of Immaculate Conception were.

To learn how to see *all* of the Sanborn maps, go here.