BlockFrom the record
One of 60 National Register listings published here for Goodhue County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Church of St. Rose of Lima
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 8778 County 11 Blvd., Kenyon, 55946
- When was it listed? August 2013
- Category. building
- Township. Cherry Grove township
- National Register reference number. 13000597 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
2,406 wordsThe chapter on Cherry Grove Township in History of Goodhue County, Minnesota, published 1909 names Kenyon. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Cherry Grove is one of the southern tier of townships in the county. It is bounded on the north by Wanamingo, on the west by Kenyon, on the south by Dodge county, and on the east by Roscoe. One complete government township, No. 109, range 17, constitutes its area, which has remained unchanged since the township act of 1858. Its surface is that of a high prairie, with low, broad, undulations of surface. The drainage is toward the north and south, from the elevated central portion. A branch of the Zumbro winds through the southern portion of the township, and along its valley are some wooded portions, although for the most part the township is under cultivation. The soil is excellent for agricultural purposes, and a specialty is made of dairy farming in that vicinity, the residents being a progressive set of people, who have adopted all the latest methods in agricultural operations.
Passage source: History of Goodhue County, Minnesota, published 1909.
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 Cherry Grove Township - 2,406 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Church of St. Rose of Lima: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peterson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
33 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenyon, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 tornado, 2 heavy rain. 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenyon | $250,000 | There were numerous reports of trees snapped, power lines and barns blown down, with injuries to livestock from Kenyon to Wanamingo and Zumbrota. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenyon | $5,000 | Several large trees were blown down in Kenyon, including some taking down power lines. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenyon | - | Photos of roof damage to large commercial warehouse in Kenyon. |
| September 2024 | Hail | Kenyon | - | Lots of hail occurred, with the largest being ping pong ball size. |
| September 2024 | Hail | Kenyon | - | There were several reports of quarter to half dollar sized hail in Kenyon. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenyon | - | Several 14 to 24 inch diameter trees were downed. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenyon | - | Various trees and branches were reported down in and around Kenyon. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Kenyon | - | Mix of quarter to half-dollar sized hail. Picture via Twitter. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenyon | - | A large tree limb was blown down at the corner of Red Wing Avenue and 1st Street. |
| September 2018 | Tornado (EF1) | Kenyon | - | This is the continued tornado track from the Rice County tornado that moved an additional 1.4 miles northeast into Goodhue County. A storm survey, and high resolution satellite imagery, concluded that damage was associated with flattened corn and soy bean fields, and a loss of a silo's roof panel. The damage is consistent with EF1 damage with winds up to 90 mph, and a width of 100 yards. |
| August 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Kenyon | - | A storm survey determined that a tornado started just east of Nerstrand MN (in Rice County) and continued into Goodhue County, where is dissipated. It damaged trees and crops. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenyon | - | A social media video showed several large trees branches blown down, and a couple of large diameter trees uprooted near Kenyon. A local farm noted that their corn had been flattened near Kenyon. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenyon | - | A 8 inch diameter tree branch was blown across Highway 56, south of Kenyon. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Kenyon | - | A local trained weather observer measured 5.16 inches of rainfall near Kenyon between Wednesday afternoon, September 21st, to the early morning of Thursday, September 22nd. |
| September 2016 | Flood | Kenyon | - | Runoff from torrential rainfall that occurred across most of southern Goodhue County Wednesday night, September 21st, caused numerous roads to remain impassable and closed. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Kenyon | - | Several areas in the town of Kenyon had over six inches of flowing water in streets and county roads. This water drained into the Zumbro River system. Very heavy rain also fell to the north of Kenyon, in Holden Township, and this water drained into the Cannon River system. Eventually, there was high water on both the Cannon and Zumbro Rivers. |
| June 2012 | Heavy Rain | Kenyon | - | A measured rainfall report of 4.54 inches occurred in less than 18 hours. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenyon | - | Few trees and power lines down. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenyon | - | Downed power lines. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Kenyon | - | A two to three mile wide swath of very large hail extended from Northfield in Rice County to Wanamingo in Goodhue County. About 40,000 acres of crops were damaged or destroyed in Goodhue County. Vehicles, homes and businesses damaged. Damage total includes all storm reports from August 24 in Goodhue County. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenyon | - | Two trees were downed. One tree fell onto a garage. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenyon | - | Along 430th Street in Holden Township, Section 23, a large commodity shed was destroyed after 5 support beams were ripped from the structure. One of the beams was thrown 75 feet and the roof of the structure fell onto a tractor. Doors on two free standing barns were also damaged. In addition, a very large Maple tree that was estimated to be over 100 years old was felled. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Kenyon | - | A newspaper published a picture of hail that fell in Kenyon that looked to be at least 1.25 inches in diameter. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenyon | - | Numerous trees down, chimney toppled. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenyon | - | Few trees and power lines down. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenyon | - | Trees down. Estimated windspeed. Also received 5 inches of rain. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenyon | - | Trees blown down. Estimated windspeed. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenyon | - | Large tree toppled by strong thunderstorm winds at Kenyon Country Club at 1657 CST. Four inches of rain flooded Highway 60 1.5 miles east of Kenyon. Water washed out part of the north shoulder and traffic was reduced to one lane. Kenyon Golf Course received three and one-half inches of rain in one hour. Five fairways that run parallel with the Zumbro River were flooded. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Kenyon | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Kenyon | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Kenyon | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Kenyon | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Kenyon | - | no account filed |
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
3 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory | 4.4 miles | 1980 |
 | Holden Lutheran Church Parsonage | 7.3 miles | 1980 |
 | Martin T. Gunderson House | 7.7 miles | 1975 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 13000597 in Record Group 79. |
| Goodhue County | All 60 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.