This video can be viewed on KCRG-TV9’s website. A new childcare center is coming to downtown Dubuque. It’s called Marita Theisen Childcare Center and it will be on Steeple Square campus. The center will provide affordable and accessible childcare to about 100...
The Steeple Square Board of Directors announced that a day care center will be opened in the former St. Mary’s rectory. The facility will be called the Marita Theisen Child Care Center at Steeple Square. It is not expected to be ready for children until late 2018 or...
Amy McFarland’s life was at a low point. It was March 2016 and she had just been arrested on drug charges for the second time in 14 months. That’s when she found Opening Doors’ Maria House through a drug court program. Now, after 490 days of sobriety, a lot of tears,...
A new apartment complex is opening in Dubuque, right next to the Maria House. It’s called Francis Apartments and it’s part of the Steeple Square campus. It’ll give women, like Amy McFarland, who have graduated the Maria House program an affordable,...
The steeple of the former St. Mary’s Church has towered over Dubuque’s Washington Neighborhood for 150 years. For decades, it served as the physical, social and cultural center of a prominently German-Catholic working-class neighborhood. Dubuque artist Tim Olson on...
