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Photograph of St. Anthony's Church and School
Photograph by Ammodramus, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Anthony's Church and School

Built in 1911 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Anthony's Church and School is a Romanesque Revival style church and an accompanying school at 514 West Main Street and 103 North 6th Street in Cedar Rapids, Nebraska within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha.”

Wikipedia article St. Anthony's Church and School (Cedar Rapids, Nebraska), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Boone County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1911, Romanesque Revival architecture.

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. 514 W. Main St. and 103 N 6th St., Cedar Rapids, 68627
  • When was it listed? March 2000
  • Category. building
  • Precinct. Cedar precinct
  • When was it built? 1911
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 00000172 - 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

8 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of St. Anthony's Church and School between 2011 and 2020, burning about 18 acres 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 October 2012Debris and open burning12 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 January 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 January 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 January 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Storms near this property

40 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Rapids, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 21 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
March 2019Flash FloodCedar Rapids$50,000Heavy rain and rapid snow melt created ice jams along Cedar Creek and flooded Highway 52 and Highway 56. The town of Cedar Rapids was evacuated due to the impending flood waters.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids$50,000Semi tractor trailer overturned. Large 12 inch diameter tree branches were also blown down.
June 2025HailCedar Rapids-Trained spotter report of hail estimated up to 1 inch in diameter.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-Measured gust from public mesonet station of 64 mph.
April 2024HailCedar Rapids-The office received a public report of golf ball sized hail just to the west of Cedar Rapids, Nebraska. Another golf ball sized hail report in the area was reported on mPING at the same time.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-A 69 mph wind gust was measured from a personal weather station.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-A 58 mph wind gust was recorded on a personal weather station.
September 2023HailCedar Rapids-Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail and torrential rainfall. The spotter reported they received 1.40 inches of rain in 30 minutes.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-Trained spotter reported 5-inch tree limbs down due to wind gusts.
October 2022Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 61 mph.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 69 mph.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-The public reported winds to near 70 mph. This resulted in tree limbs of 2 to 3 inches in diameter being blown down. There were also center irrigation pivots overturned as well.
April 2013HailCedar Rapids-Hail up to quarter-size was accompanied by freezing rain and sleet in the Cedar Rapids area.
May 2012HailCedar Rapids-Hail up to ping pong ball-size was reported just southeast of Cedar Rapids.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-Emergency Management estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of around 60 mph between Cedar Rapids and Saint Edwards. The strong winds caused scattered tree damage in the Cedar Rapids area.
June 2008HailCedar Rapids-The hail was accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
May 2008Flash FloodCedar Rapids-Rainfall of 2 to 3 inches produced areas of flash flooding from around Cedar Rapids east across Highway 14 south of Albion then to near Boone. Debris from the flooding briefly closed Highway 14 with other flooding observed along River Road near Cedar Rapids and the Highway spur into Boone. Flash flooding also closed Highway 32 east of Petersburg for a while and several county roads also experienced flooding which not only closed them this evening, but also washed out their approaches.
February 2007FloodCedar Rapids-An ice jam along the Cedar River near Cedar Rapids flooded some farmland and few county roads near Cedar Rapids. The river came out of it's banks between 1/2 and 3/4 of a mile in the area.
August 2004HailCedar Rapids-Hail estimated at 1 inch in diameter stripped corn fields west of town.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at around 60 mph by a storm spotter. The winds downed large tree limbs causing damage to at least one vehicle in town.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph caused tree damage in town.
October 2001Tornado (F0)Cedar Rapids-This tornado crossed over from Nance county...southwest of Boone county...one and one half miles east of the western county line. The tornado then traveled 1 mile north before lifting. According to a damage survey from the National Weather Service Hastings, Nebraska office, the tornado was around 60 yards wide in Boone county, and only some minor tree and crop damage was reported in Boone county, although more damage was observed across Nance county.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-Trees downed.
June 2018HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
April 2017HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
June 2014HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
September 2008HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-no account filed
May 2007HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
May 2007HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
May 2005HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
May 2005HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
May 2005HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
October 2001HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
October 2001HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
October 2000HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
September 1998HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-no account filed
September 1995HailCedar Rapids-no account filed
September 1995Thunderstorm WindCedar Rapids-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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

1 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
Cedar Rapids City Hall and Library0.1 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000172 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boone CountyAll 6 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.
  • 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.