Our Lady of Loretto Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery

Our Lady of Loretto Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery is a historic rural church on County Highway C, one mile west of Denzer in Honey Creek, Wisconsin, United States. It was built in 1880 as a mission church for German settlers and was added to the National Register in 1990. Honey Creek was founded in 1852 as a mission of St. Aloysius Catholic parish in Sauk City under Reverend Adelbert Inama. St. Aloysius also established Saint Luke's of Plain and Saint Patrick's of Loreta as missions about the same time. Worship was first held at Honey Creek in the living room of Katherine and John George Leidig, with the missionary priest walking 13 miles from Sauk City. By 1862 people were buried in the current cemetery at the foot of the bluff. In 1867 a log church was built on the cemetery's side of the road, but it burned shortly after, and the congregation resumed services in Leidigs' home. In 1880 the parish built the stone church very much as it stands today, across the road from the cemetery. Its walls are yellow limestone, randomly laid by local stonemasons Kasper Steuber and/or Peter Mettel and Nicolaus Allart. This uncoursed stone is framed by quoins of dressed limestone, and windows and doors are framed in the same. To make the church look more formal, the masons laid lines of mortar over the face of the uncoarsed stone, to suggest cut blocks. Windows and doors have lancet arc

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