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Photograph of Grotto of the Redemption
Photograph by Ben Franske, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Grotto of the Redemption

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Shrine of the Grotto of the Redemption is a religious shrine in West Bend, Iowa, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux City. A conglomeration of nine grottos depicting scenes in the life of Jesus, it contains a large collection of minerals and petrifications and is believed to be the largest grotto of its kind.”

Wikipedia article Grotto of the Redemption, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Palo Alto County · listed in 2001 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 300 N. Broadway, West Bend, 50597
  • When was it listed? February 2001
  • Category. structure
  • Township. West Bend township
  • National Register reference number. 00001679 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Grotto of the Redemption: 5 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
BennettSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dorweiller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
FehrSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
JergensSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
West Bend PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Palo Alto County

Storms near this property

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Bend, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 10 hail, 5 heavy rain, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2018HailWest Bend$50,000Emergency manager reported windows broken on houses and cars by hail. This is a delayed report and time estimated from radar.
August 1998HailWest Bend$50,000no account filed
October 2000Tornado (F1)West Bend$30,000Numerous trees toppled as this tornado moved in from Pocahontas County and lifted southwest of West Bend.
April 2004HailWest Bend$15,000no account filed
April 2004HailWest Bend$10,000no account filed
April 2004HailWest Bend$10,000no account filed
September 2012Thunderstorm WindWest Bend$5,000Large trees were snapped.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindWest Bend$5,000Large trees were snapped.
May 2015HailWest Bend$3,000no account filed
June 2024Heavy RainWest Bend-From 6am CDT Friday to 8:30am CDT Saturday, 7.5 inches of rain fell. Relayed via social media.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWest Bend-A large tree branch down.
May 2023Heavy RainWest Bend-Storm total of 4.67 inches.
September 2018Heavy RainWest Bend-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.36 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2018Heavy RainWest Bend-Local media reported 3 hour heavy rainfall total of 3.6 inches.
August 2015Heavy RainWest Bend-Public/citizen weather station reported heavy rainfall of 3.59 inches since 6 pm.
May 2023HailWest Bend-no account filed
July 2012HailWest Bend-no account filed
July 2012HailWest Bend-no account filed
March 2005Thunderstorm WindWest Bend-no account filed
April 2004HailWest Bend-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Palo Alto County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
First Presbyterian Church0.2 miles2010

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001679 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Palo Alto CountyAll 4 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.