Church of St. Bridget-Catholic

Built in 1901 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Bridget is a Roman Catholic church in De Graff, Minnesota, United States. The parish, founded in 1876, was the first established in a major drive by Archbishop John Ireland to settle western Minnesota with Catholics.”
Wikipedia article Church of St. Bridget, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Swift County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1901, Gothic Revival.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Church of St. Bridget--Catholic - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 3rd St. and Ireland Ave., DeGraff, 56271
When was it listed? August 1985
Category. building
Township. Kildare township
When was it built? 1901
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 85001768 - 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

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Church of St. Bridget-Catholic in 2008, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
3 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Swift 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
Sabin S. Murdock House	4.5 miles	1985
Christ Church-Episcopal	7.4 miles	1985
Church of St. Francis Xavier-Catholic	7.5 miles	1985
Swift County Courthouse	7.6 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001768 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Swift County	All 9 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.