John Bellairs attended elementary school at St. Mary’s and used his church as the model for St. Michael’s Church in Duston Heights. Father Peter Baart was the builder of St. Mary’s; the ghost of Father Remigius Baart is the chief villain in The Curse of the Blue Figurine.
“A tall brick building with a brick steeple on the northeast corner. There were three big pointed wooden doors at the front of the church. A flight of worn stone steps led up to each one.”
As featured in:The Curse of the Blue Figurine
The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull
