Norway Lutheran Church and Cemetery

	Norway Lutheran Church and Cemetery
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Norway Lutheran Church in 1912
Nearest city	Denbigh, North Dakota
Coordinates	48°10′53″N 100°36′53″W / 48.18139°N 100.61472°W
Area	4.4 acres (1.8 ha)
Built	1907
Architectural style	Late Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.	94001216
Added to NRHP	October 14, 1994

The Norway Lutheran Church and Cemetery was located 10 miles from south of Denbigh, North Dakota and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1994. The NRHP listing includes the main church structure, a cemetery, and two contributing privies to the west and rear of the church, all situated on a 4.4 acres (1.8 ha) site. A pyramid-shaped monument topped with an iron cross is located at the northeast corner of the cemetery and marks site of an older log church. Norwegian skier Sondre Norheim was buried in the cemetery in 1897.^[1]^[2]

The church was built in 1907 with sand bricks from the Denbigh Brick Plant. The church was designed in a Late Gothic Revival style with a bell tower that reaches a height of 65 feet from the foundation. It was built on a hill above the Souris River and is visible for miles.^[2]

The inclusion of the site on the NRHP was based on its historic integrity, its being "one of the best and well-maintained examples of a rural church" on the North Dakota prairie, and the use of bricks rather than wood in the construction of the church.^[2]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c Lillian Espeseth; Stanley Markusen & Ramon Anderson. "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Norway Lutheran Church and Cemetery". National Park Service. and accompanying photos

External links[edit]

Media related to Norway Lutheran Church (Denbigh, North Dakota) at Wikimedia Commons

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nrhpdoc-2] Lillian Espeseth; Stanley Markusen & Ramon Anderson. "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Norway Lutheran Church and Cemetery". National Park Service. and accompanying photos

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v t e National Register of Historic Places in McHenry County, North Dakota
Historic properties	Alfred and Clara Sevareid House Denbigh Station and Experimental Forest Elliott Bridge Granville State Bank Hotel Berry Liberty Baptist Church Lower Souris National Wildlife Refuge Airplane Hangar McHenry County Courthouse Norway Lutheran Church and Cemetery Westgaard Bridge Wrought-iron cross sites (Old Saint John Nepomocene Cemetery, Old Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery)
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in McHenry County, North Dakota and List of National Historic Landmarks in North Dakota