• Date: 1881
• Style: Renaissance Revival
• District: West Washington
• Rating: Outstanding

St. Hedwig Roman Catholic Church was completed and dedicated on this site on April 8 1883. It was the first Polish Roman Catholic Church in South Bend and the Pastor, Reverend Valentine Czyzewski, was the first Pole in America to become a member of the Holy Cross Order. The Church replaced an earlier frame building dedicated by Rev. Edward Sorin, founder of Notre Dame, which was destroyed at its location by a windstorm in November 1879. The Church follow the basic ecclesiastical plan of a central entrance flanked by arched side entrances and surmounted by a tall bell tower leading into the long nave that terminates with a rounded apse. The walls are a yellow brick in common bond, and corbelled courses project at the sill line of front balcony windows. There are elaborate brick arches in the side walls. There are seven bays of windows on each side and there are five windows in the semicirular apse. All the windows are stained glass, with the ones portraying scenes from the life of Christ and the saints installed in 1926.

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