National Register of Historic Places

Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

O'Connor, Greeley County, Nebraska
Listed
February 23, 1984
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
84002472

About this property

Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a church complex off NE 56 in O'Connor, Nebraska. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The listing included three contributing buildings on 109.7 acres (44.4 ha). It is also known as the O'Connor Church Complex. The main building is the church (1904–05), which is brick and soaring and Romanesque Revival in style. There is also a rectory (1929–30), a plain parish hall (1954–55), a cemetery, and surrounding windbreaks and other land. The land was purchased in 1879 by the Irish Catholic Colonization Association of the U.S. which was organized in part "to aid the social, economic, and religious conditions of the Irish-American urban poor by assisting their relocation from eastern cities to farms in Minnesota and Nebraska." In total 25,695.9 acres (103.988 km2) in the area was purchased from the Burlington and Missouri Railroad, and townsites of O'Connor and Spalding were opened in 1880. The church was designed by architect James H. Craddock.

Location

O'Connor, Greeley County, Nebraska
41.51177, -98.46888

Categories

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Sources

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Nearby Historic Sites

Greeley County Courthouse
Industrial
4 mi
Scotia Chalk Building
Civil War
12.5 mi
Spalding Power Plant and Dam
Listed
13.1 mi
First Presbyterian Church
Industrial
13.4 mi
St. Michael's Catholic Church Complex
Industrial
13.5 mi

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When was Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary listed on the National Register?

Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1984.

What type of historic resource is Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary?

Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary?

The period of significance for Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is recorded as the industrial era.

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