Built in 1889, this large brick church was constructed to replace four earlier buildings that had served the Gilbertville area. The first church was made out of cast off slabs of lumber from a local mill, and then replaced in 1857 by a larger stone church. By 1873, the Immaculate Conception Parish had grown to the point where a larger church was deemed necessary, so Father Scallon replaced the stone church with a frame structure. Unfortunately, this building was destroyed by a windstorm in 1874, a year after its completion. The current building was then built to serve the Gilbertville area.