Masonry Magazine February 1973 Page. 7
Chancel area of St. Lawrence Seminary chapel and friary, Gold Cup winner in the 2nd annual "Excellence In Masonry" awards program of the Mason Contractors Association of Greater Chicago.
Excellence In Masonry
The St. Lawrence Seminary Chapel and Friary, Mount Calvary, Wis., has been designated Gold Cup winner of the second annual "Excellence In Masonry" awards program sponsored by the Mason Contractors Association of Greater Chicago.
It was a shining hour for the Park Ridge (III.) architectural firm of Charles Edward Stade & Associates, designers of the chapel and friary, who received an appropriately inscribed loving cup for their top-winning project in the Religious Buildings category.
Winners of nine other project classifications honoring midwestern architects and mason contractors were announced on December, 1972, at a festive banquet with a capacity audience in the main ballroom of the Hyatt Regency O'Hare, Rosemont, III. Award winners received handsome plaques embellished with the Masonry Industry's medallion and the symbolic mason's trowel.
According to awards committee chairman Harry J. Bevignani, president of Chicago Block Co., judging was based on design; imaginative use of basic materials; color and texture, and the use of piers, arches, panels and other facets of construction to impart the central function of the building and adapting it to its surroundings.
masonry February, 1973
"The 'Excellence In Masonry' concept honors the professional whose imagination and talent created the design and the builder whose skill and integrity transformed dimensions and specifications into a finished product,"
Donald E. Larsen (2nd from left), president of MCAGC, presents Gold Cup to award-winning architect Charles Edward Stade. Smiling their approval are awards chairman Harry Bevignani (left) and David B. Soloff, Jr. (far right), president of MCAA.
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