Co. Hwy. 9, Avon, Minnesota. County/parish: Stearns.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 15, 1982. NRIS 82003038.
Part of Ethnic Hamlet Churches-Stearns County Catholic Settlement Churches TR (NRIS 64000381).
1 contributing building.
The Church of the Immaculate Conception is a historic Roman Catholic church building in the unincorporated community of St. Anna, Minnesota, United States. It is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Cloud. The church was constructed in 1902 in a rural community settled by Polish immigrants. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for its state-level significance in the themes of architecture, exploration/settlement, and religion. It was nominated for reflecting the settlement of rural Stearns County by Catholic immigrant groups clustered in small, ethnic hamlets dominated by a central church.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93201032