Several documents are published with the permission of the Augustinian Province of St. Thomas of Villanova. The remainder are published with the permission of the St. Monica Archives (SMA). The original documents are held at SMA.
Works Progress Administration Local Historical Records Survey for Our Lady of Good Counsel (1936)
OLGC-WPA-Local-Historical-Records-Survey-1936Our Lady of Good Counsel History Write-up with Notes (no date, post-1938)
OLGC-History-Write-up-with-Notes-no-date-post-1938Our Lady of Good Counsel Handwritten Church and Convent History (1941)
OLGC-Handwritten-Church-and-Convent-History-1941Joseph J. Hagler, “The Founding of Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish” (1952)
OLGC-Hagler-Parish-History-1952Our Lady of Good Counsel Brief Parish History (1957)
OLGC-1957-Brief-Parish-HistoryOur Lady of Good Counsel Church History Questionnaire, compiled for Fr. Robert F. McNamara (July 1959)
Note: Fr. McNamara was the author of The Diocese of Rochester 1868–1968 (1968).
OLGC-Church-History-Questionnaire-for-McNamaras-Book-July-1959“A Parish is Born,” Our Lady of Good Counsel History (no date, post–1967)
OLGC-A-Parish-is-Born-no-dateOur Lady of Good Counsel History Files compiled by Loretta Merger (undated, circa 1971)
Notes: This collection of files includes a flyer, “Our Mother of Good Counsel,” published by Augustinian Devotions (Augustinian Press). It is reproduced here with the permission of the Augustinian Province of St. Thomas of Villanova. The collection also includes a hymn for “Our Lady of Good Counsel.” According to Fr. Michael Di Gregorio (Prior Provincial, Augustinian Province of St. Thomas of Villanova), Fr. William Sheedy, O.S.A., and not Rochester Bishop James Kearney, composed this hymn.
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Joanie Thyroff Valenti
who and when was Our Lady of Good Council change the exterior of the Church. and Please kindly forward to me the original photos of the church when first erected (before the brown siding was put on) I can’t find any references to who and when exterior was changed.