St. Patrick's Church-Garryowen
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St. Patrick's Church-Garryowen
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| Location | W. Bellevue-Cascade Rd. (County Road D61) west of Garryowen |
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| Coordinates | 42°17′7″N 90°50′50″W / 42.28528°N 90.84722°WCoordinates: 42°17′7″N 90°50′50″W / 42.28528°N 90.84722°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1854 |
| Architect | J. Boland |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| MPS | Limestone Architecture of Jackson County MPS |
| NRHP reference # | 92000921 |
| Added to NRHP | July 24, 1992 |
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church is a parish of the Archdiocese of Dubuque. The church is located in northwest Jackson County, Iowa, United States in an unincorporated community in Butler Township called Garryowen. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
The area known as Garryowen was settled by Irish immigrants from County Limerick and County Cork in 1838-1839. The parish was founded by the Rev. Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli, OP in 1840. At that time there were about 100 Catholics in the area. Three years later there were 600 Catholics, and the parish supported a school. The first church building was a log structure, which was built by parishioners. Bishop Mathias Loras contributed $600 from the Society for the Propagation of the Faith towards its construction.
Six other parishes were created from St. Patrick's. St. Mathias in Cascade, which at one time had been divided into the two parishes of St. Martin's and St. Mary's; St. Joseph's in Bellevue; St. Peter's in Temple Hill; Assumption in Sylvia Switch; St. Aloysius in South Garryowen, and Sacred Heart in Fillmore. St. Patrick's is the second oldest parish and it has the oldest church building in the Dubuque Archdiocese, and it is the oldest Catholic rural parish in Iowa.
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