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Does It Add Up? · Sioux Falls, United States
Cathedral of Saint Joseph (Sioux Falls, South Dakota)
The open question
About 14,094 people in 1910, and a building costing $390,000.. Who in a town that size was paying for this, and who was building it?
On the record
Construction of the new cathedral began in 1915. The final cost was $390,000.
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- 1915
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- church
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