St. Wenceslaus Parish is a Catholic parish of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls in Tabor, South Dakota in the Midwestern United States. Its historic red brick church, built in 1898, was listed as St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church and Parish House on the National Register of Historic Places on December 13, 1984, as part of a "Thematic Nomination of Czech Folk Architecture of Southeastern South Dakota".[2][3][4]
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| Location | Yankton and Lidice Sts., Tabor, South Dakota |
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| Coordinates | 42°57′02″N 97°39′31″W / 42.950462°N 97.658516°W |
| Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
| Built | 1898 (church), 1910 (parish house) |
| Built by | August O. Goetz |
| Architectural style | Czech folk architecture |
| NRHP reference No. | 84000579[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 13, 1984 |
Czech immigrants from Bohemia started arriving in the area, then part of the Dakota Territory, in 1868, and church services were being held by 1871.[5] The first church, of chalk rock, built with donated labor, was completed in 1874. This structure, quickly outgrown, was replaced with the current red brick church in 1898, with the parish house in the similar style built in 1910. The church was built by contractor August Goetz. A brick schoolhouse and dormitory was built in 1903–4. The school moved to a new campus in 1960, but was closed in 1970; the facility is now leased to the Bon Homme School District.[5]
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edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ "NRHP for SOUTH DAKOTA - Bon Homme County". National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 2012-07-30.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form" (PDF). South Dakota State Historical Society. Retrieved 2012-07-30.
- ^ James Stewart; Gerald Wolff; M. Betz (September 6, 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church and Parish House". National Park Service. Retrieved August 10, 2019. With accompanying seven photos from 1983
- ^ a b "Our History", St. Wenceslaus Parish website
