St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church & Parsonage

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church & Parsonage is a historic church at 412-414 East Lyon Street in Minneota, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1891 by Icelandic immigrants and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.”
Wikipedia article St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church & Parsonage, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Lyon County · listed in 1982 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 412--414 E. Lyon St., Minneota, 56264
When was it listed? March 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Lyon County MRA
City. Minneota city
Architectural style. Carpenter Gothic
National Register reference number. 82002986 - 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

6,003 words

The chapter on Minneota City in An Illustrated History of Lyon County, Minnesota, published 1912 names Minneota. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Minneota is in the northwestern part of the county, on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad. The platted village is on the southeast quarter of section 25. Kidsvold township. Its elevation above sea level is 1179 feet. The population when the 1910 census was taken was 819.

Passage source: An Illustrated History of Lyon County, Minnesota, published 1912.

So early as 1871 located in the northwest corner township in close proximity to the site of the present village. Others came the following year, and in 1872 a postoffice named Nordland was established for their benefit. It was located on section 26, just west of the site of the village, and H. D. Frink, a homesteader, was the postmaster. That office was the predecessor of the Minneota office and Mr. Frink remained in charge until it was moved to the present location in 1875. Mr. Frink

Passage source: An Illustrated History of Lyon County, Minnesota, published 1912.

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 Minneota City - 6,003 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

44 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minneota, the town this property stands in, in 44 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 23 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Minneota	2 hurt	High winds downed numerous trees and damaged several buildings in Minneota. The roof was torn off the Auto Center. One direct injury resulted to a driver when his semi-truck was blown into the ditch and rolled 3 miles east of Minneota. A second direct injury occurred when a person was blown down by the wind.
June 1997	Hail	Minneota	$100,000	Large hail devastated about 40 thousand acres of crops in western Lyon County. The area just south of Minneota was the most affected.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Minneota	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds caused tree and minor building damage damage and blew down signs.
March 2014	Tornado (EF0)	Minneota	$15,000	A tornado destroyed outbuildings, damaged a grain bin, and broke windows in a house in northern Lyon County, then crossed the county line into Yellow Medicine County.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Minneota	$1,000	A large tree was toppled on a farmstead. Property damage costs are rough estimates. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Minneota	-	Strong thunderstorm wind gusts broke off several 2 inch diameter tree limbs.
April 2023	Flood	Minneota	-	Areal flooding from rapid snowmelt resulted in damage to several gravel roads and culverts across Lyon County, Minnesota during mid April. The most concentrated area of issues occurred in Westerheim Township in northern Lyon County. This flooding resulted in a Presidential Disaster Declaration for several townships across the county.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Minneota	-	A thunderstorm wind gust of 65 mph was measured by a hand-held anemometer.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Minneota	-	Medium to large diameter branches were downed by thunderstorm winds in Minneota.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Minneota	-	Wind estimate through social media report.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Minneota	-	Peal size hail and very heavy rain occurred at the same time.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Minneota	-	Several large tree branches were downed.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Minneota	-	Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, with numerous trees in Minneota blown down.
June 2013	Hail	Minneota	-	Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles.
April 2012	Tornado (EF0)	Minneota	-	A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
August 2012	Hail	Minneota	-	Large hail caused an unknown amount of crop, vehicle, window, and roof damage.
June 2004	Tornado (F0)	Minneota	-	A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
June 2004	Tornado (F0)	Minneota	-	A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
June 2002	Flash Flood	Minneota	-	Heavy rain caused flooding of several township roads.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Minneota	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines and moved cars.
July 2000	Hail	Minneota	-	Large hail caused widespread crop damage, with soybean crops especially hard hit. Crop damage estimates were available but incomplete.
July 2023	Hail	Minneota	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Minneota	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Minneota	-	no account filed
September 2020	Hail	Minneota	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Minneota	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Minneota	-	no account filed
June 2014	Funnel Cloud	Minneota	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Minneota	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Minneota	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Minneota	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Minneota	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Minneota	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Minneota	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Minneota	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Minneota	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Minneota	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Minneota	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Minneota	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Minneota	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Minneota	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Minneota	-	no account filed
September 1995	Hail	Minneota	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Minneota	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lyon 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
	J. S. Anderson House	under 500 feet	1982
	Anderson, O. G., & Co. Store	0.3 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002986 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lyon County	All 12 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.