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2009- [Regarding AHI#2351, 153535, 153536, 153537, 153538]
"Resting on a rock-faced, coursed and cut-stone foundation, this Romanesque Revival style, brick church features a square bell tower on its northwest corner. A modern brick entrance addition obscures a large portion of the primary (north) elevation. The square tower next to this addition features a bracketed, pyramidal roof and clock faces on all four sides. Limestone-accented openings are found below the clock faces. A group of three, small, round-arch windows with limestone trim are found in the gable above the entrance addition. A single, round-arch window is located above this group. Side elevations are vertically articulated by brick buttresses with limestone caps. Window openings feature decorative brick hoods, limestone sills and windows with tracery. Since it was last surveyed in 1977, a brick entrance addition has been constructed on the church's side (east) elevation. The St. Paul Parish complex includes three additional buildings: a rectory, convent and school, as well as a Soldiers' Monument. The rectory is a two-story, side-gabled, brick building located directly east of the church, while the two-story, hipped-roof, brick convent is found directly west of the church. Continuing west is the concrete Soldiers' Monument and the one-story, brick school building.
In 1868, the Catholic residents of Wrightstown constructed a small frame church. This building was replaced in 1883-84 with a new church after the Wrightstown congregation merged with members of a Snyderville mission church to form St. Paul Parish. The former church building was then utilized as a school and, within a few years, a convent was constructed to provide housing for the two Dominican sisters who administered the school. In 1892, St. Paul Parish recorded 1,000 members and school attendance of 140 children. The parish constructed the existing rectory in 1907 and present church in 1910-14. The St. Paul Parish complex also includes a 1924 convent (replacing the one built in the late nineteenth century), a Soldiers' Monument (1924) and a 1957-58 school building. The vestibule found on the front facade ofthe church was added in 1968."
-"STH 96/High St Bridge Replacement", WisDOT#4095-12-00, Prepared by Heritage Reasearch, Ltd. (McQuillen), (2009).
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