Heading west on Main Street (U.S. 82), the horizon is dominated by a vision of the German Rhineland. This church’s massive square tower and spire at the center of the facade rise high above the tall nave and short crossing tower. The exterior and the round-arched openings compare stylistically with German Romanesque churches, but here the walls are of reinforced concrete with a veneer of red brick. The church replaced a 1903 building destroyed by a tornado in 1917. Dutch-born Frank A. Ludewig (1863–1940) trained with P. F. H. Cuypers before immigrating to St. Louis in 1912. The church’s exuberant polychrome interior by Swiss-born Friedolin Fuchs, also based in St. Louis, incorporates red and white striped brick and stone, a coffered ceiling, mosaic tile decoration, and frescoes and draperies using trompe l’oeil techniques.
Land speculators Anton and August Flusche platted the town of Lindsay beside the Elm Fork of the Trinity River in 1891 and promoted it as a German-Catholic colony.