St. Peter's Catholic Church | |
Coordinates: | 39.6197°N -91.6039°W |
Built: | 1862 |
Builder: | Kielty, Rev. Francis M.; Hogan, Martin |
Added: | November 14, 1980 |
Refnum: | 80002392 |
St. Peter's Catholic Church, also known as Brush Creek Church, is a historic Roman Catholic church located near Rensselaer, Ralls County, Missouri. The church was built about 1862, and is a one-story, rectangular limestone building with limestone and sandstone ornamentation. It is topped by a gable roof with belfry. It features lancet windows and has a frame two-room addition sheathed in weatherboard.[1] It is the church on the site where Augustus Tolton, the first ordained African American Catholic priest, was baptized.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.