First Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“First Baptist Church is a historic church in Garden City, Minnesota, United States. The town, along the Watonwan River, was originally established in 1856 as Fremont.”
Wikipedia article First Baptist Church (Garden City, Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Blue Earth County · listed in 1980 · 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. U.S. 169, Lake Crystal, 56034
When was it listed? July 1980
Category. building
Also known as. Blue Earth County MRA
Township. Garden City township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 80001938 - 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.

Storms near this property

52 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Crystal, the town this property stands in, in 52 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 24 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 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
July 2003	Tornado (F2)	Lake Crystal	$100,000	The second tornado from a cyclic tornadic supercell touched down on the western edge of a farmstead. It snapped a dozen trees and demolished a barn and sheds. The roof of a house was peeled away and four vehicles were moved.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Crystal	$2,500	A large tree was blown down and caused damage to a trailers roof.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Crystal	$2,000	Several 10 inch branches down. One branch fell on truck causing moderate damage.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Crystal	$250	Several large tree limbs were blown down, with some damage to bleachers at the city park.
August 2025	Heavy Rain	Lake Crystal	-	Cocorahs station MN-BU-85 Lake Crystal 0.2 NW. 72 hour storm total of 5.19 inches.
June 2020	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	A social media picture of quarter size hail was noted.
June 2020	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	There was a large swath of very large hail, up to 2.5 inches in diameter, that fell from Lake Crystal, southeast toward Garden City, Rapidan, and Good Thunder. There was also vegetation damage that was associated with the hail.
May 2018	Funnel Cloud	Lake Crystal	-	A funnel cloud was photographed near Lake Crystal and relayed by KEYC-TV. The funnel appeared to have been about 1/3 to 1/2 to the ground, but it was not possible to determine whether it ever touched down, and there were no reports of it ever reaching the ground.
June 2016	Flash Flood	Lake Crystal	-	Several sources indicated that torrential rainfall caused roads to flood across parts of northern Blue Earth County during the afternoon of Tuesday, June 14th. Road closures included 1 between Skyline and County Road 90 along the Blue Earth River. There was also major flooding in the city of Mankato which had mudslides along the Minnesota River.
June 2016	Heavy Rain	Lake Crystal	-	A 4 hour rainfall report of 6.50 inches occurred one mile south of Lake Crystal.
June 2016	Heavy Rain	Lake Crystal	-	A 4 hour rainfall report of 5.50 inches occurred 3 miles south of Lake Crystal.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Crystal	-	Large tree branches were blown down in Lake Crystal along some power outages.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Crystal	-	Power lines were blown down in Lake Crystal.
May 2014	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	Most of the hail was the size of nickels.
June 2010	Tornado (EF1)	Lake Crystal	-	The tornado produced widespread damage to campers, roofs, docks, and sheds. Numerous trees were broken or uprooted.
June 2007	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	Crops were also reported damaged in the area according to the Mankato Free Press.
June 2005	Tornado (F0)	Lake Crystal	-	A storm chaser witnessed a tornado briefly touch down near Minneopa State Park. Two other storm chasers also confirmed the touchdown from different vantage points.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Crystal	-	An empty 15,000 bushel grain bin was blown into a barn a few miles south of Lake Crystal. In addition the roof of a hog barn was ripped off and power lines were downed nearby.
June 2005	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	Pea to dime sized hail fell south and east of Lake Crystal. Crop damage was reported.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Crystal	-	Law enforcement officials reported that a semi tractor trailer was blown over on Highway 60 between Mankato and Lake Crystal.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Crystal	-	A number of trees were downed, including one which fell onto a city dock at the swimming beach. The time was estimated.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Crystal	-	A 58 MPH wind gust was recorded by a MNDOT weather sensor.
May 2004	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	Quarter sized hail whitened the ground and removed leaves from the trees.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Crystal	-	Several trees blown down, including one across a road.
July 2003	Tornado (F0)	Lake Crystal	-	Brief touchdown in a bean field.
July 2003	Tornado (F0)	Lake Crystal	-	Brief touchdown on the extreme eastern edge of town, near the intersection of Kraus Street and Blue Earth Street. Several trees were damaged. The storm which produced this tornado also produced widespread strong wind damage throughout central and western sections of Lake Crystal (see corresponding entry).
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Crystal	-	Based on the NWS damage survey, the vast majority of damage in Lake Crystal this day was due to strong thunderstorm winds, rather than the brief tornado that also touched down (see corresponding entry). Dozens of trees were toppled, some snapped. Many trees fell on sheds, homes and vehicles.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Crystal	-	Light to moderate damage of approximately 15,000 acres of field corn, but severe damage to 2,000 acres of sweet corn. Scattered trees down, including one on an automobile causing considerable damage. Minor building damage.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Crystal	-	Trees felled. Estimated Windspeed.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Crystal	-	Trees blown down. Estimated windspeed.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Crystal	-	Tree blown down.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Crystal	-	Large tree limb brought down by strong wind.
April 2026	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	no account filed
April 2026	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	no account filed
April 2026	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	no account filed
April 2026	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	no account filed
July 2017	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	no account filed
May 2003	Funnel Cloud	Lake Crystal	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Lake Crystal	-	no account filed
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Crystal	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blue Earth 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

3 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
James P. Gail Farmhouse	2.0 miles	1980
Kern Bridge	7.5 miles	1980
Minneopa State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources	8.0 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001938 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Blue Earth County	All 28 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.
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.