An interesting stopover on the way to somewhere else...here is another closed church, St. Mary of Częstochowa in northwestern Clark County. Opened effectively, if not officially, as a Polish ethnic parish, it stands at the crossing of two nondescript gravel roads that earned the glamorous place name of Junction (you can see it in DeLorme's atlas of Wisconsin). The area around the church is not heavily populated, which probably led to the parish's closing in 1996. However, on the last Saturday of the month, I am told the parish priests from nearby All Saints (Boyd/Cadott/Stanley) and St. Bernard/St. Hedwig's (Thorp) do Mass at this church.
I am not sure what the building's condition is, but I think the main altar is centered on a rendition of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa painting for which the parish is named.
St. Mary of Częstochowa Catholic Church
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