Romanesque Revival architecture

Burials continue today, still bury up to 5,000 people a year.

The gatehouse is gorgeous and was designed by architect Andrew J. Warner in the high Victorian Gothic and Neo-Romanesque style.

It was completed in 1874.

There are wonderful monuments and statuary throughout the cemetery.

Complexity of design.

The Romanesque revival style architecture of the depot.

It wasn't a simple wooden shack.

You know, the construction of the time.

It was built in 1862.

A really beautiful Romanesque Revival building that is, of course, like the meeting house, still standing today on Northern Boulevard.

So by 1884, though, the meeting house was finding itself in the middle of town.

Right.

Our first stop was the city's most iconic landmark, Christuskirche, which is the Lutheran Church of Christ, built out of local sandstone and completed in 1910.

Its whimsical blend of Neo-Romanesque and Art Nouveau architecture looks like something plucked right out of the Bavarian countryside.

Towering directly adjacent to it is a striking ideological contrast, the Independence Memorial Museum.

This massive glass and concrete socialist realist monument was actually designed and built by a North Korean state firm to commemorate Namibia's hard-fought anti-colonial liberation struggle and its 1990 independence from South Africa.

Before Walt Disney built Disneyland, he and his wife Lillian toured Europe, including a stop at the magnificent Neuschwanstein Castle in the Bavarian Alps of Germany.

Disney was so impressed with the skyscraping turrets and towers of this faux Romanesque structure that he used it as the model for Sleeping Beauty's castle, the centerpiece of Disneyland, and now the ubiquitous logo of Walt Disney Pictures.

But if Disney had known the real story of Neuschwanstein and its fairy tale king, an eccentric opera fan who was declared a madman before dying under mysterious circumstances, he might have chosen a different castle.

Neuschwanstein Castle is one of the most visited tourist destinations in Europe, welcoming more than 6,000 visitors on busy days in the summer.

By 1918, the missionary Oblate sisters of the Sacred Heart and Mary Immaculate also joined the community, along with what is now known as the College Mathieu, both to help educate the Francophone community and the strong Catholic faith again.

Then in 1919, a Romanesque cathedral known as the Our Lady of Assumption Co-Cathedral nowadays was built.

And let me tell you, if you've never been inside, I highly recommend taking the tour of the cathedral because the murals inside, they were painted by a resident priest between 1921 and 1931.

And it just turns turned the cathedral into something like the buildings in the Vatican.