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Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Off NE 56, O'Connor, Nebraska
Coordinates	41°30′39″N 98°28′30″W / 41.51084°N 98.47511°W / 41.51084; -98.47511
Area	109.7 acres (44.4 ha)
Built	1879, 1904-05, 1954-55
Architect	James H. Craddock
Architectural style	Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	84002472
Added to NRHP	February 23, 1984

Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a church complex off NE 56 in O'Connor, Nebraska. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The listing included three contributing buildings on 109.7 acres (44.4 ha).

It is also known as the O'Connor Church Complex. The main building is the church (1904–05), which is brick and soaring and Romanesque Revival in style. There is also a rectory (1929–30), a plain parish hall (1954–55), a cemetery, and surrounding windbreaks and other land.

The land was purchased in 1879 by the Irish Catholic Colonization Association of the U.S. which was organized in part "to aid the social, economic, and religious conditions of the Irish-American urban poor by assisting their relocation from eastern cities to farms in Minnesota and Nebraska." In total 25,695.9 acres (103.988 km) in the area was purchased from the Burlington and Missouri Railroad, and townsites of O'Connor and Spalding were opened in 1880.

The church was designed by architect James H. Craddock.

It is located off Nebraska Highway 56.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. ^ Penny Chatfield Sodhi (September 1983). "Natiosnal Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary / O'Connor Church Complex; GY00-1". National Park Service. Retrieved June 29, 2019. With accompanying 12 photos from 1983

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Greeley County, Nebraska
Historic districts	Greeley County Courthouse Spalding Power Plant and Dam
Historic properties	Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary First Presbyterian Church Scotia Chalk Building St. Michael's Catholic Church Complex
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Greeley County, Nebraska and List of National Historic Landmarks in Nebraska

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