ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA CATHOLIC CHURCH (CATHEDRAL OF THE PRAIRIE)

Potter County Library Bookmarks, information compiled by Potter County Library staff, 2009.

Transcribed by Peg Williams

The building of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church (also known as the Cathedral of the Prairie) at Hoven, SD, began in 1908 with a colossal hole 64 feet wide by 161 feet long. The basement walls were built with more than a thousand loads of sand and stone from nearby fields. Thirteen years later, on Easter Sunday 1921, the first Mass was celebrated.