St. Lucas Evangelical German Lutheran Church and Cemetery

Built in 1899 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

“Lucas Evangelical German Lutheran Church and Cemetery in rural Monroe County, Wisconsin is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Gothic Revival style frame church was built in 1899 in to serve as spiritual and social center of its German Lutheran community.”
Wikipedia article St. Lucas Evangelical German Lutheran Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 2019 · category: Building · built in 1899, Gothic Revival.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 30013 Oxford Rd., Glendale, 53929
When was it listed? August 2019
Category. building
Town. Glendale town
When was it built? 1899
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 100004276 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of St. Lucas Evangelical German Lutheran Church and Cemetery between 2018 and 2019, burning under an 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	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
30 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	7
2 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1900012
25 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	5
22 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1800014

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of St. Lucas Evangelical German Lutheran Church and Cemetery: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Arthur Overgaard Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Arthur Overgaard Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Parker Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glendale, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Glendale	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and powerlines down in the town of Glendale.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Glendale	$10,000	Shingles were blown off the roof of a church south of Kendall.
July 2014	Hail	Glendale	-	Quarter sized hail fell south of Kendall.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Glendale	-	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Glendale	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Glendale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Kendalls Depot	3.5 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004276 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe County	All 13 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.
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.
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.