Rudolph Grotto Gardens

Father Wagner Memorial Museum
Location Rudolph, Wisconsin
Coordinates 44°29′56″N 89°48′07″W / 44.499°N 89.802°W / 44.499; -89.802Coordinates: 44°29′56″N 89°48′07″W / 44.499°N 89.802°W / 44.499; -89.802
Type History Museum
Website Rudolph Grotto Gardens
St. Jude's Chapel above the Wonder Cave at the Rudolph Grotto Gardens

The Rudolph Grotto Gardens is a religious site in Rudolph, Wisconsin. It features ornamental and devotional artificial grottoes, including the Wonder Cave, an above-ground tunnel constructed of vernacular stone in the twentieth century by Father Philip Wagner and Edmund Rybicki. The site contains twenty-six shrines and is covered with gardens and paths.[1] The Father Wagner Memorial Museum is also on the site.

Gardens

The Grotto Gardens are 7.5 acres of land containing a number large number of plants, notably hostas as well as religious shrines including the stations of the cross. A 78 ton rock was excavated by volunteers and raised to ground level by the local government to form part of a patriotic memorial at the site.

Notes

  1. ↑ Wonder Cave
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