St. Mary's Catholic Church

Obtaining 75,000 acres of county land for a farm colony in 1891, German-American Catholics planted cross here and laid off Windthorst around a 20-acre site for church, school, and rectory. Ernest Hoff built the town's first structure, a home, on January 1, 1892. Father Joseph Reisdorf celebrated the first Mass in Windthorst. The first church was dedicated in 1893. The present one was completed in 1925.