Church of St. Francis Xavier | |
Location | 1382 Minnesota Highway 61, Grand Marais, Minnesota |
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Coordinates | 47°45′29″N90°18′42.7″W / 47.75806°N 90.311861°W Coordinates: 47°45′29″N90°18′42.7″W / 47.75806°N 90.311861°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1895 |
NRHP reference No. | 86002119 [1] |
Added to NRHP | July 31, 1986 |
Church of St. Francis Xavier is a historic church on Minnesota Highway 61 in Grand Marais, Minnesota, United States. The church began as a Jesuit mission from Fort William, Ontario, in 1855 to minister to the Ojibwe residents of the area. The permanent structure was built in 1895 and was used until declining attendance forced it to close in 1936. The Cook County Historical society restored the site between 1970 and 1974 and it was added to the National Register in 1986. [2] The church is located in the abandoned townsite of Chippewa City. [3]
Cook County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 5,600, making it Minnesota's seventh-least populous county. Its county seat is Grand Marais. The Grand Portage Indian Reservation is in the county.
Grand Marais is a city in Cook County, Minnesota, United States, on the North Shore of Lake Superior. It had a population of 1,351 at the 2010 census.[6] It is the county seat and sole municipality of Cook County.[7] Before it was settled by French Canadians and before Minnesota's statehood, Grand Marais was inhabited by the Anishinaabe indigenous people, also known as the Ojibwe. The Ojibwe name for the area is Gichi-biitoobiig,[8] which means "great duplicate water," "parallel body of water" or "double body of water", a reference to the two bays that form this large harbor of Lake Superior.[9]
Minnesota State Highway 61 is a 148.843-mile-long (239.540 km) highway in northeast Minnesota, which runs from a junction with Interstate 35 (I-35) in Duluth at 26th Avenue East, and continues northeast to its northern terminus at the Canadian border near Grand Portage, connecting to Ontario Highway 61 at the Pigeon River Bridge. The route is a scenic highway, following the North Shore of Lake Superior, and is part of the Lake Superior Circle Tour designation that runs through Minnesota, Ontario, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
Little Marais is an unincorporated community in Lake County, Minnesota, United States; located on the North Shore of Lake Superior.
Hovland is an unincorporated community in Cook County, Minnesota, United States.
Tofte is an unincorporated community in Tofte Township, Cook County, Minnesota, United States.
Schroeder is an unincorporated community in Schroeder Township, Cook County, Minnesota, United States.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cook County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Cook County, Minnesota, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Cook County Courthouse in Grand Marais, Minnesota, United States, was built in 1911. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
St. Francis Xavier Church, including ones named Cathedral, and variations may refer to:
Croftville is an unincorporated community in Cook County, Minnesota, United States.
Chippewa City is an abandoned townsite in Cook County, Minnesota, United States.
Grand Marais Light is located on the outer end of a breakwater on the shore of Lake Superior in the city of Grand Marais in Cook County, Minnesota, United States. It is located in USCG District 9.
Church of St. Francis Xavier-Catholic may refer to:
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Swift County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Swift County, Minnesota, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Colvill is an extinct townsite in Cook County, Minnesota, United States.
The Church of St. Francis Xavier is a Roman Catholic church in Benson, Minnesota, United States. The parish was founded in 1881 and its current building was designed by architect Emmanuel Louis Masqueray and constructed in 1917. St. Francis's building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 for having local significance in the themes of architecture and European ethnic heritage. It was nominated for being one of west-central Minnesota's most architecturally sophisticated churches, for its Renaissance Revival design by Masqueray, and for its association with a parish of Swift County's late-19th-century Catholic settlers.
Arthur R. Nichols was a landscape architect who practiced in New York City and Minnesota in a long career from 1902 through 1960. He was a very productive landscape architect who was instrumental in bringing the field of landscape architecture to Minnesota.
The Jim Scott Fishhouse is a historic building in Grand Marais, Minnesota, United States, built in 1907 by a family-owned commercial fishing outfit. During the fishing season it served as a place to dress and pack fish, while over the winter it was used for the storage and repair of fishing gear. The Jim Scott Fishhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 for having local significance in the theme of commerce. It was nominated for being a representative of the important commercial fishing industry on the upper North Shore of Lake Superior.
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