Martin's Evangelical Church is a church east of Lesterville in

Yankton County, South Dakota Yankton County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,310, making it the 9th most populous county in South Dakota. Its county seat is Yankton. Yankton County comprises the Yankton, SD Mi ...

. It was built in 1923 and was added to the

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in 1980. The church's most salient feature is its central, square tower with "tall gable wall dormers, corbeled '

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' arcading, and a polygonal termination." It has brick- and

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-faced walls upon a concrete foundation. With .

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