Anyone hoping that some architectural elements of the 19th-century First Reformed Church of Astoria could have survived the ...

CHICAGO — A historic Chicago church apologized on Friday, a day after pieces of a gargoyle fell off the building’s facade and killed a mother-of-two who was walking along the street. Sara Bean, 34, ...

In the early morning darkness of Feb. 29, 2012, a tornado roared through Ridgway, a southern Illinois town of some 800 to 900 souls, located about 10 miles from where Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... PARIS — A Muslim stonemason who spent nearly four decades helping to restore a Roman Catholic cathedral in France has been immortalized as a winged gargoyle ...

CHICAGO - A historic Chicago church apologized on Friday, a day after pieces of a gargoyle fell off the building's facade and killed a mother of two who was walking along the street. Sara Bean, 34, ...

A Chicago man is suing a historic Presbyterian church after his 34-year-old fiancée died when a portion of a stone gargoyle fell from the church’s façade, striking her in the head and killing her, ...

The traditional gargoyle is a horrendous creature who leers out of medieval church walls. But people have continued making gargoyles right up into the modern day, bringing science fictional flourishes ...

Margaret Visser, the Canadian writer who can find a universe of meaning in a shaker of salt or the tip of a man’s hat, has turned her intense gaze on architecture. The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, ...

The Second Presbyterian Church in Chicago, Illinois on April 1, 2011. A historic Chicago church apologized Friday to the family of a woman who was killed Thursday when she was struck by crumbling ...

Picture the outside of a church. Here’s the porch, here’s the steeple, here’s the parish noticeboard. It’s all very ordered and all very charming — except for the gruesome faces on the roofline. They ...