Saint Martin Of Tours Catholic Church

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St. Martin's in 2004. [Click here to view full size picture]

The construction of St. Martin's Catholic Church began in the fall of 1940.
It was finished in 1941 at the cost of $6,500.
The first Mass in the new church was celebrated on Christmas Day, 1941. Called merely 'St. Martin's' until 1944, when Archbishop Staffon asked Fr. George Schroeder, pastor, to designate or rename the parish as Martin of Tours. St. Martin de Porres Parish was already established in Boulder in 1968, and St. Martin of Tours Parish in Oak Creek already had a statue of its patron in the church.

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The church is an "L" shaped building with double doors on the front and a single door on both sides. The wooden lap siding on the outside is painted white.
It has a metal gabled roof, and there are about 16 windows and one chimney. The church has been added onto and now has a covered open porch the width of the front of the building.
It has a cross above the porch roof right above the front door and another on top of the church.

Information gathered with the help of Mike Yurich of the Historical Society of Oak Creek & Phippsburg by Martin & Dakota at Soroco High School, May 2004.

St. Martin's in 1941. [Click here to view full size picture]