The first Catholic church in Janesville was built (small brick building at corner of Homes and Cherry streets, erected by St. Patrick's Society).

The evidence

• “The first Catholic church was also built in 1847, being a small brick building at the corner of Homes and Cherry streets, erected by St. Patrick's Society, and this building afterwards was enlarged and grew into the present church.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/26-history-of-janesville.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 26 / book p. 540

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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