St. Peter's Church is a

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located at 1010 Newark Drive, Town of Farmington, Wisconsin. It was built in 1861 by a congregation of German immigrant farmers. Like many early structures in southeastern Wisconsin, it is made of mortared

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, and is one of four surviving fieldstone churches in

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. Church services were in German until 1930. In 1874, the congregation built a schoolhouse nearby, which operated into the 1920s. There is also a cemetery behind the church. On June 30, 1983, it was added to the

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for its architectural significance. Regular church services were discontinued in the 20th century, and as of the building's addition to the register, it was only used on Easter and Christmas.

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