St. Ann's Catholic Church of Badus
St. Ann's Catholic Church of Badus | |
Nearest city | Ramona, South Dakota |
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Coordinates | 44°8′51″N 97°8′28″W / 44.14750°N 97.14111°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1884 |
Architectural style | Gothic |
NRHP reference No. | 79002403[1] |
Added to NRHP | August 7, 1979 |
St. Ann's Catholic Church of Badus is a historic church in Ramona, South Dakota. It was built in 1884 and was added to the National Register in 1979.[1]
History
[edit]The area was settled by 10 Swiss immigrants who relocated to Lake Badus from Stillwater, Minnesota in 1877, naming the lake after a lake near Piz Badus.[2] The community celebrated its first Mass and baptism on May 20, 1880, joined by Irish settlers from elsewhere in Nunda Township. Plans to build a permanent church began in 1883, and were realized in 1884.[2]
The routing of the Milwaukee Road through Ramona led to faster growth there; St. William of Vercelli there was split off as its own parish in 1898. St. Ann's was closed for regular services in 1965, although it remains in use as a summer chapel and for a special celebration on the Feast of St. Ann in July.[2][3]
Architecture
[edit]It is a one-story vernacular-Gothic Revival building with a gable roof and clapboard siding. It is west-facing with four bays on its north and south sides, and it has Gothic-style tracery within pointed arches of its windows.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b c Atyeo, Janelle (March 18, 2018), "Church preserves history of Swiss community", Tri-State Neighbor, retrieved October 27, 2021
- ^ a b Denis E. Meier (1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: St. Ann's Catholic Church of Badus". National Park Service. Retrieved December 29, 2017. With two photos from 1978.
- Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls
- Former Roman Catholic church buildings in South Dakota
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in South Dakota
- Gothic Revival church buildings in South Dakota
- Roman Catholic churches completed in 1884
- Churches in Lake County, South Dakota
- National Register of Historic Places in Lake County, South Dakota
- 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States
- Religious organizations disestablished in 1965
- Religious organizations established in 1880
- Swiss-American history
- South Dakota Registered Historic Places stubs
- South Dakota church stubs