Old St. Mary's Catholic Parish House

Built in 1908 (American Foursquare). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Mary's Catholic Parish House, located at 5th Ave. and Underwood St. in Bryant, South Dakota, is an American Foursquare-style house built in 1908. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Old St. Mary's Catholic Parish House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Hamlin County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1908, American Foursquare.

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. 5th Ave. and Underwood St., Bryant, 57221
When was it listed? December 1988
Category. building
Township. Garfield township
When was it built? 1908
Architectural style. American Foursquare
National Register reference number. 88002840 - 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

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Old St. Mary's Catholic Parish House between 2001 and 2020, burning about 85 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	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
29 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WISEMAN
29 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WISEMAN2
25 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DITCH
27 April 2001	Debris and open burning	75 acres	Desmet Volunteer Fire Department	# 691

Every fire recorded in Hamlin County

Storms near this property

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bryant, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 13 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
September 1995	Hail	Bryant	$30,000	Hail caused considerable damage to crops, mainly corn and soybeans. The crop loss was estimated to be 50 percent over three townships. The hail caused relatively minor property damage.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Bryant	-	The public reported that a tree branch had come down due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2024	Flash Flood	Bryant	-	Sheriff reports flooding south of the intersection of 443rd ave and 191st street.
October 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Bryant	-	Tree damage was reported in Bryant by estimated 65 mph winds.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Bryant	-	A large, sturdy ash tree with estimated one foot diameter trunk was knocked over.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Bryant	-	Sixty mph winds were estimated north of Bryant.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	Bryant	-	A tornado touched down briefly south of Bryant causing no damage.
June 1997	Tornado (F1)	Bryant	-	A tornado touched down near Bryant and moved some grain bins about 3/4 of a mile and uprooted several trees in a shelter belt.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Bryant	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Bryant	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Bryant	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Bryant	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Bryant	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Bryant	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Bryant	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Bryant	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Bryant	-	no account filed
September 1999	Hail	Bryant	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Bryant	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Bryant	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Bryant	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamlin 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
Bryant Masonic Lodge 118	0.2 miles	2020
Kant Hotel	0.2 miles	1985
Garfield Lutheran Church and Cemetery	5.6 miles	2012
Jacob and Amelia Tuohino Farm	7.7 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002840 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hamlin County	All 15 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.