The church and the adjacent 1907 rectory were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 for having local significance in the themes of European ethnic heritage and social history.

[2] The property was nominated to the Register as a manifestation of the importance of ethnic parishes in the cultural and religious life of Minnesota's rural German American populace in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Cloud decided that St. Boniface and St. Patrick would merge into a new parish named St. Mary's.

The church is now part of a four-parish cluster with parishes in Meire Grove, Greenwald, and Spring Hill.

No people were injured, and the blaze was extinguished before the roof or exterior walls were lost.