St. Mark's Episcopal Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Mark's Episcopal Chapel is a small Gothic Revival chapel in Corinna Township, Minnesota, United States, built in 1871. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 for having local significance in the themes of architecture and religion.”
Wikipedia article St. Mark's Episcopal Chapel (Corinna Township, Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Wright County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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.
Address. Off MN 24, Annandale, 55302
When was it listed? December 1979
Category. building
Also known as. Wright County MRA
Township. Corinna township
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 79001272 - 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.

Fires near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of St. Mark's Episcopal Chapel between 1998 and 2009, burning about 219 acres in total. 1 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
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	1

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
4 May 1998	Natural	3.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	125 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	SUGAR LAKE
11 April 2009	Debris and open burning	91 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Wright County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of St. Mark's Episcopal Chapel: 1 producer. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Anderson Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Wright County

Storms near this property

38 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Annandale, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 22 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Annandale	1 hurt	One woman critically injured when a tree branch was blown off a tree and struck her in the head.
July 2010	Hail	Annandale	$50,000	Several trained spotters reported numerous nickel, up to hen egg size hail from southwest of Annandale, to northeast of Cokato.
September 2005	Lightning	Annandale	$20,000	A home on Maple Avenue suffered an electrical fire after being struck by lightning. Damage to electrical appliances, wiring, and attic insulation totaled $20,000.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Annandale	$15,000	Multiple reports of blown down trees and power lines from Annandale, to northwest of Maple Lake, Minnesota.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Annandale	-	Tree downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Annandale	-	Trees down in Annandale.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Annandale	-	A 50 foot boat was flipped, with several trees blown down east of Annandale.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Annandale	-	A large tree was blown down near Annandale that was blocking Highway 55.
May 2008	Hail	Annandale	-	Approximately 800 homes in and around Annandale were damaged due to hail, according to Dwight Gunnarson, general manager of Huber Construction Co., which was tasked for repairing many of the damaged homes. Information provided by the Annandale Advocate newspaper.
May 2008	Hail	Annandale	-	Highway 55 and Kennedy Ave.
May 2008	Hail	Annandale	-	County Roads 39 and 24.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Annandale	-	A tree was downed across the intersection of County Road 36 and 80th Street.
May 2004	Hail	Annandale	-	Walnut sized hail was reported at Sugar Lake.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Annandale	-	Tree down on road.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Annandale	-	Trees down: one was partially blocking a road.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Annandale	-	Shed and camper overturned. Few trees down. Grain bin dented. Damage occurred along south side of Cedar Lake.
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Annandale	-	Windows blown in.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Annandale	-	Trees and power lines down. Estimated windspeed.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Annandale	-	Large tree blown down. Estimated windspeed and time.
June 2025	Hail	Annandale	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Annandale	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Annandale	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Annandale	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Annandale	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Annandale	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Annandale	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Annandale	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Annandale	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Annandale	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Annandale	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Annandale	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Annandale	-	no account filed
September 2002	Hail	Annandale	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Annandale	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Annandale	-	no account filed
September 1998	Hail	Annandale	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Annandale	-	no account filed
August 1994	Hail	Annandale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wright 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Thayer Hotel	3.5 miles	1978
	First Congregational Church of Clearwater	8.0 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001272 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wright County	All 22 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.
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.