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Church of the Holy Family (Catholic)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Church of the Holy Family is a historic Roman Catholic church building in Eveleth, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1909 by a Slovene American congregation and anchored its ethnic community for seventy years.”

Wikipedia article Church of the Holy Family (Eveleth, Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 126 National Register listings published here for St. Louis 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. 307 Adams Ave., Eveleth, 55734
  • When was it listed? August 1980
  • Category. building
  • City. Eveleth city
  • National Register reference number. 80004345 - 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

302 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 302 fires within 5 miles of Church of the Holy Family (Catholic) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 561 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 91 were 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
Arson/incendiarism91
Debris and open burning60
Railroad operations and maintenance52
Equipment and vehicle use37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Recreation and ceremony15
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2006Railroad operations and maintenance71 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesJUNCTION 101 FIRE
26 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenance1.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 119 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 119 workings within 5 miles of Church of the Holy Family (Catholic): 97 past producers, 18 producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Auburn & Great Western MinesIron, Silica, Water, Free, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-PhosphatesProducer1894
Cloquet Annex Reserve X-62Iron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1943
Security MineIron, Manganese, Silica, Aluminum, Water, Free, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1961
Magnetic Taconite Mesabi Range 17wIron, Water, FreeProspectSurface
Rouchleau GroupIron, Water, FreePast Producer1943
Gulbranson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gulbranson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sly PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Aad MineIronPast Producer1904
Alberta MineIronPast Producer1907

Every working recorded in St. Louis County

Storms near this property

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eveleth, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1995Thunderstorm WindEveleth$6,000Thunderstorm winds from 61 to 70 kts (70-80 mph) tipped over boats and caused power outages.
June 2025Flash FloodEveleth-Water was over Old Highway 53 along with a minor washout of road surface. Highway 53 was being routed down Old Highway 53. Highway 53 was not only flooded over but the current was so strong coming down that hill that car tires were slipping.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEveleth-A large willow tree was down over a road.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindEveleth-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindEveleth-Power lines were down along Routes 53 and 37.
August 2011HailEveleth-Hail covered the ground.
May 2011HailEveleth-Hail was measured to be 13-20mm in diameter, or 0.51 to 0.79 inches in diameter. The hail lasted about 3 minutes.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindEveleth-Shingles were blown off a roof.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindEveleth-Trees were blown down on County Highway 25
June 2002HailEveleth-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindEveleth-no account filed
June 1996HailEveleth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Louis 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

6 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Hotel Glodeunder 500 feet1980
Eveleth Recreation Building0.2 miles1980
Eveleth Manual Training Center0.2 miles1980
W. Bailey House0.3 miles1980
W. T. Bailey House3.5 miles1980
Coates House3.5 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80004345 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Louis CountyAll 126 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.