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St. Peter's Catholic Church
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| Location: | W. Orgain Ave |
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| Architect: | Nistler,L., Cummings & Blias |
| Architectural style: | Greek revival |
| Governing body: | State |
| NRHP Reference#: | 90000356 |
| Added to NRHP: | March 14, 1990[1] |
St. Peter's Catholic Church is a National Registered Historic Place located in Wibaux, Montana. It was added to the Register on March 14, 1990.
The placard reads:
Dismayed that his son’s adoptive home had no Catholic Church, Frenchman Achille Wibaux instructed Pierre to build one here. The rancher contributed $2,000 for the construction of this wood-frame, vernacular Gothic Revival structure. It was built in 1895 by R. R. Cummings and Eugene Blias of Glendive. The Wibaux congregation being at that time as a mission of Miles City, and Father Van der Broeck of Miles City superintended the church’s construction. In 1938, the church was enlarged and its exterior walls covered with scoria, a lava rock common to the badlands of the area. Father Leahy, pastor of the church beginning in 1931, conceived the idea of a scoria facing, and volunteers from the congregation went rock-picking in wagons and pickup trucks. Father Leahy recorded that “patient men did a beautiful job of laying the rock up to and on the steeple.” The building served as Wibaux’s Catholic Church until 1965, when a new church was built and this building was converted to a catechism school.
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