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Church of St Mary's-Catholic

Built in 1909 (Beaux-Arts). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Church of Saint Mary's is a 1909 Beaux-Arts Catholic church, located at 8433 239th Street East, New Trier in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The bright red building sits high on a hill overlooking the town, which was settled by German immigrants from Trier.”
Wikipedia article Church of Saint Mary's (New Trier, Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Dakota County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1909, Beaux-Arts.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Church of St Mary's--Catholic - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 8433 239th St., E., New Trier, 55031
When was it listed? December 1979
Category. building
City. New Trier city
When was it built? 1909
Architectural style. Beaux-Arts
National Register reference number. 79001233 - 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

4,696 words

The chapter on New Trier City in History of Dakota County and the City of Hastings, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, published 1881 names New Trier. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

This village is situated in the north-east part of the township, and has a population of about one hundred and twenty. Father Keller gave it the name in honor of a small city in Germany. The first building put up in the town was the log church in 1856. The next building was a board shanty built in 1863 by Mathias Hubli. In 1865, Peter Mies built the first hotel, called the New Trier house. This was sold in 1867, to John Simmer, who still owns it. In this was kept the first grocery in the place.

Passage source: History of Dakota County and the City of Hastings, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, published 1881.

The first marriage in the township was that of John Kranz and Miss Abbie Stumpf , celebrated in the Catholic church at New Trier, in November, 1857, by Father George Keller. The first birth was that of L. Holden, born August 11th, 1855.

Passage source: History of Dakota County and the City of Hastings, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, published 1881.

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 New Trier City - 4,696 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Church of St Mary's-Catholic between 1994 and 2000, burning about 80 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 October 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 October 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Dakota County

Storms near this property

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Trier, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2009	Tornado (EF1)	New Trier	$25,000	A roof was completely torn off a farm house, and several large sheds and outbuildings were destroyed. The tornado tracked through corn fields, from south-southeast to the north-northwest.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	New Trier	$15,000	A local National Weather Service employee and the local Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down east of New Trier, and a 16' hopper blown over near Miesville.
August 2022	Funnel Cloud	New Trier	-	A storm chaser took video of a funnel cloud. The funnel may have made ground contact, but it was not possible to verify that. No damage was reported. The location was approximated based on the video.
September 2018	Tornado (EF0)	New Trier	-	A NWS storm survey, plus areal footage of drone and satellite data, concluded that an EF0 tornado tracked 4.6 miles from south of Hampton, then east-northeast before it lifted 2 miles east of New Trier. This tornado tracked mainly through corn and soy bean fields, and occasionally damaging a few sheds and outbuildings. The damage was consistent with EF0 damage with maximum wind speeds of 75 mph and a width of 220 yards.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	New Trier	-	Several large tree branches were blown down on Highway 20, southeast of New Trier.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	New Trier	-	Metal shed blown apart and pieces of which wrapped around trees. Garage of home on same property partially collapsed. Two to three foot diameter tree uprooted.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	New Trier	-	Garage, pole barn and farm outbuildings detroyed.
August 2008	Hail	New Trier	-	Hail covered the ground.
September 2024	Hail	New Trier	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	New Trier	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dakota 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001233 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dakota County	All 40 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.