Coeur d'Alene Mission of the Sacred Heart

Coeur d'Alene Mission of the Sacred Heart is a historic church mission school off U.S. 95 in Desmet, Idaho.

Coeur d'Alene Mission of the Sacred Heart
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The mission school in 1975
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Location	Off U.S. 95 De Smet, Idaho
Coordinates	47°08′45″N 116°54′52″W
Area	less than one acre
NRHP reference No.	75000623[1]
Added to NRHP	April 21, 1975

The mission was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]

De Smet mission school

The mission was destroyed by fire in 2011.[2]

The NRHP-listed building was a major schoolhouse which had been built in two phases. Its three-story front section was built after 1900. A smaller hip-roofed two-story brick structure, connected at the rear, was built after 1877.[3]

At the time of NRHP listing, the first floor of another early structure survived in a two-story building, but was not deemed eligible for NRHP listing.[3]

The original chapel of the mission was destroyed in a 1939 fire.[3]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Mike Prager (February 3, 2011). "Historic school building burns in DeSmet". Spokesman-Review.
3. Merle W. Wells (March 26, 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Coeur d'Alene Mission of the Sacred Heart, Desmet". National Park Service. Retrieved August 22, 2017. With two photos from 1975.