JNKA designed this new mausoleum to provide burial crypts and a small chapel for 30 Poor Clare sisters adjacent to their Monastery of the Immaculate Conception in Palos Park, Illinois. The arched entrance, pitched roofs and masonry detailing stem from the existing monastery design, and the angled exterior walls integrate an existing statue of St. Colette, stone cross, and cornerstone that were salvaged from the original Poor Clare monastery in Chicago that was demolished in the 1950’s. The remains of the Poor Clare sisters from that original monastery were exhumed and re-buried in this mausoleum.
