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Photograph of St. Paul Roman Catholic Church
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St. Paul Roman Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Paul, Oregon, United States, was the first church in Oregon built with brick, constructed in 1846. It is the oldest brick building in the Pacific Northwest.”

Wikipedia article St. Paul Roman Catholic Church (St. Paul, Oregon), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 120 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 1979 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Off OR 219, St. Paul, 97137
  • When was it listed? October 1979
  • Category. building
  • Census division. St. Paul
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 79002098 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of St. Paul Roman Catholic Church: 11 past producers, 9 producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Coffee Island BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Coffee Island BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Coffey Island BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Coffey Island BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dayton Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dayton Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dorsey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dorsey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Freshauer BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Freshauer BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Marion 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

6 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
St. Paul Historic District0.2 miles1982
Kirk, John W., and Thomas F., House0.6 miles1987
William Case Farm4.8 miles1973
Casper Zorn Farmhouse5.1 miles1980
Champoeg Cemetery5.3 miles2004
Jesse H. Settlemier House7.2 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79002098 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marion CountyAll 120 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.
  • 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.