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Trudeau and built in 1958-59, the church
seats 1,300 people beneath a seamless
poured concrete dome topped with a
Celtic cross. The remarkable façade above
the front entrance features 16-foot cast
stone statues of the famous missionaries
Father Kino and Father Serra standing
alongside St. Francis.
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Yet amid all the architectural splendor
and prolific construction achievements of
Homes & Son, perhaps the sweetest job of
all for Fred Homes personally was the
company’s routine 1972 renovation of
Madison School #1 at 16th Street and
Missouri Avenue. This was the landmark
elementary school that Fred himself
attended, and so he approached this
particular project with a distinct mixture
of pride and nostalgia.
One of the first things Fred did on the
work site was to throw a rock through one
of the old windows. “That was something
that got me sent to the principal’s office as
a student, and now here I was doing it as
part of my job,” he recalls with a laugh.
Across page: Construction of the Sears store at
Town and Country shopping center, 20th St. and
Camelback Road, 1960s.
Top left: Paving by Black Contracting Co. at the
Valley National Bank, Grandview Plaza, 59th Ave
and Camelback Road, 1960.
Top right: Homes & Sons sidewalk stamp, 1953.
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