The St. Lucas Evangelical German Lutheran Church was constructed in 1899 in rural Glendale Township, Monroe County. The building is an excellent representative of traditional rural church design with modest Gothic Revival styling as seen in its steeply-pitched roof and rows of peaked windows with angular lancet designs.

During the nineteenth century, no European nation sent more immigrants to the United States than Germany with more than five and a half million Germans arriving in the U.S. between 1820 and 1910. Wisconsin’s highest period of German immigration occurred between 1880 and 1893. It was during this period that a number of German immigrant families relocated from the Milwaukee area to the southern portion of Glendale Township. With the assistance of a German Lutheran circuit pastor, the community formed its own congregation in 1898 and set about building a church the following year. The small church, designed and constructed by members of the congregation, served as the religious and social center of the area’s German Lutheran families until decreasing membership led to its closure in 1987. Today, the church is owned by St. Luke’s Auxiliary and Preservation Committee which has raised considerable funding and volunteer support to restore the church to its original condition.