[1] The area, then part of Dakota Territory, was settled around 1883 by German immigrants, and the parish of St. Bernard was established to serve them.

[6] Helmbrecht hired Bavarian-American architect Anton Dohmen of Milwaukee to design the church, reportedly modeled on one in Ruhmannsfelden, Bavaria.

[3] The church is a brick Neo-Romanesque-Gothic building with an ornate portal entrance surmounted by a rose window.

[7] The interior is a basilica plan which terminates in a rounded apse, with Corinthian-columned arcades separate the nave and side aisles.

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