The Holy Family Mission, east of Browning in

Glacier County, Montana Glacier County is located in the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,778. The county is located in northwestern Montana between the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, known to the Blackfeet as the "Backbone o ...

, was founded in 1886. It opened in 1890 and served for 53 years as the center of missionary Catholicism on the

Blackfeet Reservation The Blackfeet Nation ( bla, Aamsskáápipikani, script=Latn, ), officially named the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana, is a federally recognized tribe of Siksikaitsitapi people with an Indian reservation in Monta ...

operated by the

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. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 1982. The listing included eight contributing buildings, a contributing structure, and a contributing site. Historically, the site included: the Mission Church, built in 1937; a Boy's and Girl's Dormitory, whose original sections were built in 1895 and 1898 respectively and were both 2.5 stories tall; a bakery tied into the Girl's Dormitory by a 1937 addition; two barns, only one on a partial concrete foundation; four shingled wooden outbuildings, and a cemetery, approximately seven acres across, with the earliest marked dates from the 1890s. With . Today, only the Mission Church, one barn, and the cemetery remain from the original listing, with a recent addition of three mobile homes linked by brick pathways.Map showing location of Holy Family Mission. ''Google Earth'', earth.google.com/web/.

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Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana Roman Catholic churches completed in 1886 National Register of Historic Places in Glacier County, Montana Native American Christianity Blackfeet Nation Catholic Church in Montana Jesuit churches in the United States 1886 in Montana Territory Native American schools {{Montana-NRHP-stub