The Sacred Heart Church at 316 W. Benham in

Glendive, Montana Glendive is a city in and the county seat of Dawson County, Montana, United States, and home to Dawson Community College. Glendive was established by the Northern Pacific Railway when they built the transcontinental railroad across the northe ...

is a Catholic church which was built during 1924–26. 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 1988. The architect was Montana architect

Brynjulf Rivenes Brynjulf Rivenes (July 4, 1874 – December 21, 1929), generally known as B. Rivenes, was a Norwegian-American architect practicing in Miles City, a city in sparsely settled eastern Montana. Biography Rivenes was born in Norway in 1874, an ...

. The church was built to serve the Catholic community in Glendive which had outgrown its first church, the St. Julianna Catholic Church established in 1886 in the former Congregational Church building at Power and Sargent Street on the east side. Property at the corner of Meade and Benham, on the west side of Glendive, was bought for $4,500; the church was built for $50,000 and a rectory (demolished in 1970) was built for $7,500. The church had a $5,000 organ installed in about 1927. The church's interior was remodeled extensively in 1973–74. With . It was listed on the National Register along with several other Glendive properties covered in a 1987 study.

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