SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – On this edition of Throwback Thursday, Lori Kent with the Local Lou Podcast teaches us about St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Sioux Falls.
“It the 1830s, 1840s that we first have some catholic missionaries in the area, but that’s well before this area is called Sioux Falls. They’re just around the Dakota Territory, kind of in the Vermillion area. Sioux Falls itself gets its first Catholic church, St. Michael’s, and in 1881, that is a wooden structure that actually burns. So, they rebuilt it as a brick structure. That brick structure is actually the seed that eventually grows into Sat. Joseph’s Cathedral,” said Kent.
Talks about building a larger cathedral began around 1915, and the city hired the architect who built the cathedral in St. Paul, Minnesota, for the job…