Church of the Holy Trinity-Catholic

Built in 1869 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Church of the Holy Trinity is a Roman Catholic church in Rollingstone, Minnesota, United States, built in 1869 and expanded in 1893. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 for having local significance in the themes of architecture and exploration/settlement.”
Wikipedia article Church of the Holy Trinity (Rollingstone, Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Winona County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1869, Gothic Revival.

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 the Holy Trinity--Catholic - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off Rollingstone Rd., Rollingstone, 55969
When was it listed? August 1984
Category. building
City. Rollingstone city
When was it built? 1869
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 84001721 - 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

2,095 words

This property stands in Rollingstone Township. History of Winona County, published 1883 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

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 Rollingstone Township - 2,095 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Church of the Holy Trinity-Catholic between 1992 and 2009, burning about 68 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Smoking	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
6 July 1992	Smoking	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 June 1997	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 June 1992	Smoking	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 1992	Smoking	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 May 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 May 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Winona District of the Upper Mississippi Complex	WINONA
6 April 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 April 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Winona County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Church of the Holy Trinity-Catholic: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Biesanz Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Winona Aggregate Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kohner Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Kreidermacher Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Mathy Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Winona County

Storms near this property

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rollingstone, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2023	Hail	Rollingstone	$150,000	Public reported tennis ball hail caused holes in siding of a house near Minnesota City.
July 2024	Hail	Rollingstone	$78,000	Local officials reported 2 inch diameter hail near Rollingstone.
September 2019	Lightning	Rollingstone	$10,000	A house fire near Rollingstone was started by lightning. The house sustained minimal damage.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Rollingstone	$5,000	Vehicles and a deck were damaged when large tree branches landed on them.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Rollingstone	$2,000	Trees were blown down in Rollingstone, temporarily blocking traffic on South Main Street.
April 2026	Hail	Rollingstone	-	Emergency management reported quarter sized hail in Rollingstone.
October 2023	Hail	Rollingstone	-	A volunteer observer reported ping pong ball sized hail in Rollingstone.
April 2022	Hail	Rollingstone	-	Quarter sized hail was reported in Rollingstone.
May 1999	Hail	Rollingstone	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Rollingstone	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winona 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

4 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
Rollingstone Village Hall	0.3 miles	2021
Bridge No. L1409	4.8 miles	1990
Trinity Episcopal Church	5.3 miles	1984
Madison School	8.0 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84001721 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Winona County	All 50 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.