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Photograph of Church of the Most Holy Trinity
Photograph by Elkman, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Church of the Most Holy Trinity (Catholic)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Veseli, Minnesota is a Catholic church designed by Clarence H. Johnston designed a large number buildings for state institutions in Minnesota, such as the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf, the University of Minnesota, the former Minnesota Historical Society building, and many others, but churches were not common in his architectural practice.”

Wikipedia article Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Veseli, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 76 National Register listings published here for Rice County · listed in 1997 · category: District.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 4938 N. Washington St., Wheatland Township, 55046
  • When was it listed? November 1997
  • Category. district
  • Township. Wheatland township
  • Architect. Clarence H. Johnston, Sr.
  • National Register reference number. 97001424 - 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

6,378 words

This property stands in Wheatland Township. History of Rice County, published 1882 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 Wheatland Township - 6,378 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Lonsdale Public School2.9 miles1979
Trondhjem Norwegian Lutheran Church4.6 miles2001
Den Svenska Evangeliska Lutherska Christdala Forsamlingen7.6 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97001424 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rice CountyAll 76 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.