A Dubuque project prompted a statewide nonprofit organization to create a new category in its annual Best Development Awards. Steeple Square has been awarded the first-ever award in the Best of Show category by 1000 Friends of Iowa. The nonprofit is “focused...
A state program will enable a Dubuque child care center to offer free preschool for 4-year-old children. Marita Theisen Childcare Center at Steeple Square is offering the preschool to 17 children, according to a press release. It states that the preschool spots are...
Steeple Square, 101 E. 15th St., has completed its challenge to match a fundraising from the Jeffris Family Foundation. This is the second grant awarded by the foundation to Steeple Square since 2016. The $221,231 grant required Steeple Square to raise a two-to-one...
On Sundays when Trish McDonald was with her dad, her mornings were the same. She sat in awe, staring at intricate designs and red, painted ceilings embellished with gold inside St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Each detail was memorizing, and she found herself easily lost...
Sometimes opportunity knocks. Other times, it slides in through the windows. When a Dubuque parish moved out of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in 2010, the community turned the cluster of church buildings into a community center known as Steeple Square. In the process,...
Organizers of the Steeple Square project had a chance to show off their accomplishments Sunday. The continuing project is transforming the former St. Mary’s Catholic Parish property at 15th and White streets into a campus offering a community/event center, 12...
Durable Restoration’s work on Steeple Square in Dubuque, Iowa, won the award for metal roofing from the International Federation for the Roofing Trade (IFD). The Durable Restoration Co., based in Columbus, Ohio, is the first American company to win the award,...
Kids play at the Marita Theisen Childcare Center in Dubuque on August 26, 2019. (Allison Wong/KCRG) It’s tough for parents to find childcare for their kids due to fewer programs available across the state of Iowa, but one center opening in Dubuque is...
As many schools were welcoming their students back to class, the Marita Thesien Child Care Center opened its doors for the first time. The daycare center is operated by the non-profit, Steeple Square. The group renovated the former home of St. Mary’s Rectory to house...
People explore an infant room Tuesday at the Marita Theisen Childcare Center located in Steeple Square in Dubuque. A former Dubuque church rectory has found new life as a child care facility, reflecting community efforts to adapt historic structures to satisfy current...
