Aerial view from the southwest, showing the church, rectory and school. A foundation hole has been dug for the convent building. To the west, most homes and businesses have been razed to make way for construction of Interstate 94.
Aerial view from the southwest, showing the rectory and school buildings. Taken before construction of Interstate 94, so shows homes and businesses in surrounding neighborhood.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish activities and news, annual financial reports. Also includes detailed accounting of the interior finish of the church and its elevation to a minor basilica. Book was also used as a scrapbook for programs and newspaper clippings pertaining to the church and Catholic events in the city.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish activities and news. Documents laying of the cornerstone for the Pro-Cathedral (later Basilica) of St. Mary in 1908. Also includes list of parish library holdings.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday Mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish activities & news, and special Diocesan notices. Reverse of book includes financial records of expenditures and financial contributions listed by parishioner.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday Mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish activities & news, and special Diocesan notices. Also includes roster of First Communion class attendees for 1883 and the parish choir.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday Mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish activities, entertainments and news. Initial fundraising and groundbreaking for the new Pro Cathedral is documented.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday Mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish activities, entertainments and news. Progress of the new Pro Cathedral building is documented.
Book containing announcements made at Sunday mass, including marriage banns, deaths, parish and civic activities. Documents first two years in the new Pro-Cathedral church. Includes some baptism records.
Schools in North-central Minnesota (1871-1909). Eden Valley was platted in 1886 when the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad Company laid their tracks through the area, Eden Valley developed rather rapidly. By 1901 three Benedictine sisters from St. Joseph went there to teach in temporary classrooms until the new parochial school was completed in 1902. Eventually the enrollment peaked at 310 with 8 sisters teaching at the Assumption School. Watkins The same year, the neighboring town of Watkins was platted along the same railroad. By 1907 the Catholic parish, St. Anthony's, in Watkins was large enough to build its own parochial school. The Benedictine sisters from St. Joseph were invited to teach there and the school soon realized an enrollment of 200 pupils. In subsequent years, the school developed to a peak of 321 students and for some years included high school classes (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives, Olsenius, page 137).
The vested Basilica Boys' Choir stands and sings carols before the 5:00 a.m. Mass on Christmas morning. Choir director and organist George Bussman plays a small portable organ just outside the sacristy rail. Boys pictured include: Tommy Hendricks, Martin Strong, Tom Bennett, Danny Stone, and Laird Miller.
View from Hennepin Avenue of the church, hung with banners for the Ninth National Eucharistic Congress on the day of its Consecration. Father Hennepin Memorial is obscured by a tree.
Front exterior is hung with multiple banners. A number of Congress events were held at the church, and rector Father James M. Reardon was General Chairman of the event.
Church and rectory seen through trees along 16th Street North. Noted on reverse by the rector, "The New Look" - probably refers to recent work cleaning the stone and retuckpointing.
Postcard of the "New Cathedral. Minneapolis. Minn," the Pro-Cathedral of Saint Mary. Building has a round dome, a design ultimately changed by architect Emmanuel Masqueray. Church is shown surrounded by trees and parkland.
Panoramic photograph of the students of the Basilica School, grades 1 through 8. The children are posed on the south side steps of the school building.
The Catholic Church was located on the southeast corner of Seventh Avenue South and Fourth Street South. It was torn down and a new one was built on the south end of Seventh Avenue South.
Exterior view of the Catholic School and Convent in Madison Lake, Minnesota, with message from Martha to Miss J. B. Hoffman, Wabasso, Minnesota, postmarked Eagle Lake, Minnesota
Mass celebrating the Basilica being named Co-Cathedral of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. At center behind forward altar, Archbishop Leo Binz, flanked by Father Colbert and Father Gormely.
Interior view of sanctuary during Consecration Mass of the Basilica of Saint Mary. Banners for the Ninth National Eucharistic Congress bedeck the pillars and baldachin.
Exterior view of the St. Mary's Parish School with children in front of the building. They are posed with pastor, Reverend Ansgar Osendorf, Order of Saint Benedict (OSB).
Schools in north-central Minnesota (1871-1909). New Munich began with a few small buildings built by two men, Burns and Sutton, in 1855. They also ran a small "wayside" inn for the stagecoach that ran north-south through this part of the county. The town gradually settled around the church built by the German Catholics. In 1879 three sisters came to New Munich to teach in the district school at the request of the pastor. The trustees and the people did not agree with this decision and hired a lay teacher. The pastor then opened a parochial school in the church basement, but attendance was very small and leaders of the antagonism made it almost impossible for the sisters to live there. Despite the set-backs, the sisters won the good will of the people so that the following year the school opened with over 100 children enrolled (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives, Olsenius, page 120; Jaakkola and Frericks, page 77).