Coeur d'Alene Mission of the Sacred Heart

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Coeur d'Alene Mission of the Sacred Heart
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The mission school in 1975
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LocationOff U.S. 95
De Smet, Idaho
Coordinates 47°08′45″N116°54′52″W / 47.145898°N 116.914382°W / 47.145898; -116.914382
Arealess than one acre
NRHP reference No. 75000623 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 21, 1975

Coeur d'Alene Mission of the Sacred Heart is a historic church mission school off U.S. 95 in Desmet, Idaho.

The mission was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [1]

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De Smet mission school

The mission was destroyed by fire in 2011. [2]

The NRHP-listed building was a major schoolhouse which had been built in two phases. Its three-story front section was built after 1900. A smaller hip-roofed two-story brick structure, connected at the rear, was built after 1877. [3]

At the time of NRHP listing, the first floor of another early structure survived in a two-story building, but was not deemed eligible for NRHP listing. [3]

The original chapel of the mission was destroyed in a 1939 fire. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Mike Prager (February 3, 2011). "Historic school building burns in DeSmet". Spokesman-Review.
  3. 1 2 3 Merle W. Wells (March 26, 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Coeur d'Alene Mission of the Sacred Heart, Desmet". National Park Service . Retrieved August 22, 2017. With two photos from 1975.