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Photograph of Loreto Shrine Chapel
Photograph by Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Loreto Shrine Chapel

Built in 1870. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Loreto Shrine Chapel is located in St. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.”

Wikipedia article Loreto Shrine Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Manitowoc County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1870.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Off WI A, St. Nazianz, 54232
  • When was it listed? June 1982
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Colony of St. Gregory of Nazianzen TR
  • Village. St. Nazianz village
  • When was it built? 1870
  • National Register reference number. 82000679 - 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

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Loreto Shrine Chapel between 1994 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
13 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources6036
16 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19059
5 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5056
14 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5123
27 April 2003Recreation and ceremony1.8 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources310
22 April 1994Arson/incendiarism85 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources9874

Every fire recorded in Manitowoc County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Loreto Shrine Chapel: 4 producers. All of them 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
Brocker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lutski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lutzki PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Schwartz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Manitowoc 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
St. Mary's Convent0.4 miles2001
St. Gregory's Church0.4 miles1982
Kiel Mill7.7 miles2022
Carl Gottlieb Heins House7.9 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82000679 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Manitowoc CountyAll 38 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.