Over the past decade, the Society has focused its energies on restoring and preserving the school building, which is on the National Registry of Historic Places.

Major restoration and preservation projects include:

• Repairing the roof structure and installing new roof shingles
• Tuckpointing the brick facade of the building
• Installing a new climate-control system on all three levels of the building
• Installing a core backup heating system on the 2nd and 3rd levels of the building
• Constructing a new floor and storage area over the old furnace room and
• Repairing and preserving the historic wood-frame windows (ongoing). Matching grants from the Iowa State Historical Society and generous donations from the 250 supporters and community businesses have helped us accomplish these critical preservation goals.

Restoring and preserving this architecturally and culturally unique educational building that houses the museum, library and family history programs is vital to the cultural, educational, historical and psychological well being of the community and adds greatly to the historical and cultural heritage of the region, state and Nation.

As a cultural and historical resource it: serves as a focal point for connecting extended families spread across the region, the state and Nation; facilitates a dialogue between persons with a Germanic ethnic and cultural heritage with their ancestral families in Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg; provides an educational opportunity of the current student generation to learn more about their ancestors and ethnic heritage; and serves as a platform for dialogues on various historical topics. This handsome structure, known as St. Luke’s School, played a very significant role in the religious, educational, cultural and economic identity of the German, Swiss and Luxembourg migrants families coming to the St. Lucas area and shape their active participation in the broader American cultural and economic tapestry.