Trondhjem Norwegian Lutheran Church

Built in 1899 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“Trondhjem Norwegian Lutheran Church is a historic church in Webster Township, Rice County, Minnesota. It was original built in 1878 and rebuilt in 1899.”
Wikipedia article Trondhjem Norwegian Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 76 National Register listings published here for Rice County · listed in 2001 · category: Building · built in 1899, Greek Revival architecture.

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 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 8501 Garfield Ave., Webster, 55046
When was it listed? September 2001
Category. building
Township. Wheatland township
When was it built? 1899
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 01000945 - 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.

The ground it stands on

6,378 words

The chapter on Wheatland Township in History of Rice County, published 1882 names Webster. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

This, the northwest corner townshi)) of Kice county, has Le Siieur county on the west, Scott county on the north, the town of Webster on the east, and Erin 9U the south. It has the regular thirty-six sections of a government township. As to the name, whethei' it is derived from the Wheatland which was the residence of President Buchanan, from some town further east, or from its intrinsic quality as regards the production of the leading cereal of the eounti'y, it perhaps matters little so long as it answers the two great purposes of a name, which are to characterize and also to distinguish it from all else with which it may be confounded.

Passage source: History of Rice County, published 1882.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Wheatland Township - 6,378 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Trondhjem Norwegian Lutheran Church: 3 producers. All of them still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Camp Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Concrete Materials Pit No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Elwood Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Rice County

Storms near this property

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Webster, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 8 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2021	Hail	Webster	-	Social media had a picture of golf ball size hail near Webster.
June 2021	Hail	Webster	-	Social media had a picture of tennis ball size hail in Webster.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Webster	-	A large tree was snapped in half near Webster.
June 1998	Tornado (F0)	Webster	-	Remained in open field. Grain bin blown into woods 2 SE of Webster.
August 2020	Hail	Webster	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Webster	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Webster	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Webster	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Webster	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Webster	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rice 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Lonsdale Public School	1.7 miles	1979
Den Svenska Evangeliska Lutherska Christdala Forsamlingen	3.1 miles	1995
Church of the Most Holy Trinity (Catholic)	4.6 miles	1997
Church of the Annunciation-Catholic	6.7 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000945 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rice County	All 76 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.