309 S. 3rd Ave., Virginia, Minnesota. County/parish: St. Louis.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 27, 1980. NRIS 80004362.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The Church of St. John the Baptist was a historic church building in Virginia, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1924 by a Polish American congregation of Roman Catholics. In 1980 the church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places under the name Church of St. John the Baptist (Catholic) for its local significance in the themes of religion and social history. It was nominated for serving as the center of religious and social life for Virginia's Polish Americans.
The parish moved to a new building on the same block, the Holy Spirit Catholic Church, in the 1970s. The Church of St. John, little used for years, was demolished in December 2018 to make room for a playground and expanded parking lot for the adjacent parochial school.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93202919