![]() There was a dormitory for the students who boarded there in the winter months. Ī parochial school was established by the parish in 1888, and the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration from La Crosse, Wisconsin began teaching there in 1899. The last renovation of the church was carried out by Langenfeld Studios in 1929. The vaulted ceiling in the interior rises 39 feet (12 m) above gilded altars, numerous statues of saints and angels, elaborate stained glass windows, frescos, and mosaics. The brick Gothic Revival church features an Indiana limestone foundation and a central tower that rises 145 feet (44 m). ![]() It took more than a year to build the church and cost the parish $48,000. There was no railroad into Roselle, so the building materials had to be hauled 3 miles (4.8 km) into the town using horse-drawn wagons on primitive roads. Īs the parish and town grew they needed a new church, and they built the present structure in 1904. Carroll County would grow to have the highest concentration of German Americans of any county in Iowa. Except for four families who were Lutheran, the community was made up of Catholics. Catholics from Roselle traveled there for Mass until 1874 when they founded their own parish and built a frame church, which the called Heilige Schutzengels Kirche (Holy Guardian Angels Church). They established the county's first Catholic church in 1868. Bishop John Hennessy of Dubuque sent German Catholics to settle the area and start farms. Lambert Kniest bought 23,000 acres (9,300 ha) of land in Carroll County that would become known as Mount Carmel.
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