Angel Museum In Regional Press

We get visitors from every state in the union as well as internationally. In turn regional press from other cities and states have taken notice of The Angel Museum as well.

The Chicago Tribune: Featured Tempo Road Trip

Another in our summer-long series of stories on places, characters and other curiosities in the Midwest.

By Patrice M. Jones – Tribune staff reporter

Beloit Wis. – Joyce Berg likes to say the angels saved the old St. Paul’s Catholic Church building from demolition.

Well, in fact, they did. At least indirectly.

The church closed in 1988, and the building changed hands a couple of times before former parishioners got wind of a redevelopment plan that meant tearing down St. Paul’s

Meanwhile, Berg, a longtime local resident, was looking for a way to establish a museum to house her massive collection of angel figurines. the church, she thought, would be perfect.

The Milwaukee Sentinal:

By Kathleen Ostrander – Sentinel correspondent

Beloit – Angels brought an early Christmas present to a group of Beloit residents trying to save a historic Catholic church from demolition.

St. Paul’s Church on Riverside Drive was built in 1914 and recognized in April as one of the city’s historic landmarks.

The building is slated for demolition, but some residents have proposed using it to house a one-of-a-kind museum for an internationally recognized collection of angels and angel momorabilia owned by Joyce and Lowell Berg of Beloit.