Church of St. Michael (St. Michael, Minnesota)

For other places with the same name, see St. Michael's Church (disambiguation).

Church of St. Michael--Catholic
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The Church of St. Michael from the northeast
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Location	Central Avenue and Main Street, St. Michael, Minnesota
Coordinates	45°12′39″N 93°39′55″W
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1890
Architectural style	Gothic Revival
MPS	Wright County MRA
NRHP reference No.	79001279[1]
Added to NRHP	December 11, 1979

The Church of St. Michael is a historic Roman Catholic church building in St. Michael, Minnesota, United States, constructed in 1890. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 for having local significance in the themes of architecture, exploration/settlement, and religion.^[2] It was nominated for its status as the dominant architectural feature and the religious and social center of a German Catholic community.^[3]

History

The community was established in 1856 and originally started worship in a small log church along the Crow River. The early ministers of the church came from Saint John's Abbey in Collegeville. In 1866 a new church was built in the center of the town and served for about 25 years. In 1890 the parish built a Gothic Revival building, which was the largest church in Wright County at the time.^[4] The building features ornate statues and German woodcarvings.^[5]

Although the parish had a mostly German ethnicity for many years, since 1985 the number of families in the parish doubled, and it no longer appears to be an ethnic parish. In 2004 the parish constructed a new building.^[4] The historic church building is still used for Mass on Fridays during the school year.^[6]

See also

• List of Catholic churches in the United States
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Wright County, Minnesota

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Church of St. Michael (Catholic)". Minnesota National Register Properties Database. Minnesota Historical Society. 2009. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
3. Hackett, John (April 1978). "Minnesota Historic Properties Inventory Form: St. Michael's Catholic Church". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-06-20. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
4. "Our History". St. Michael Catholic Church. 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-06-21. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
5. Paprock, John-Brian; Teresa Peneguy Paprock (2004). Sacred Sites of Minnesota. Black Earth, Wisconsin: Trails Books. ISBN 978-1931599269.
6. "Mass and Confession Times". St. Michael Catholic Church. Archived from the original on 2013-03-29. Retrieved 2013-01-19.

External links

• St. Michael Catholic Church