Research Items

The following is a collection of houses of worship research items.

First Baptist Church

Baptist missionary Harriet Bishop arrived in the St. Paul village in 1847 and set up a school for the white and Native American children in the area. This school initially met in a log house on lower 3rd Street and in October 1848 moved to a schoolhouse on upper 3rd Street and later to a schoolhouse...

First Baptist Church, Minneapolis

Baptist meetings were initially held in 1853 in the home of Asa Fletcher, Subsequent meetings were held in a variety of locations, including another building owned by Fletcher on Portland Ave, and a hall on Helen Street (later 2nd Avenue) on the river. (A full list appears in Atwater's History of...

First Church of Christ

Founded by Christian Science practitioner Mary Brookings, this congregation began meeting in 1885 and was formally organized the following year. It was incorporated on December 24, 1892. The group held services in several locations during its early years, including private homes. In 1889 it moved to...

First Congregational Church of St. Anthony

The frontier town of St. Anthony was established on the basis of lumbering, which attracted many migrants from eastern states to settle there. Along with the influx of laborers came missionaries who were mostly Congregationalist or Presbyterian. One of the first congregations organized in the area...

First Evangelical Church

Summary: The history of the First Evangelical Church is unclear, but apparently it came about through the merger of three Evangelical congregations or missions, all German.  Even before the congregation was formally organized in 1872 its members had erected a church at 319 Fourth Street North, but...

First Evangelical Church

Organized in 1857 as the Immanuel Church of the Evangelical Association of North America, this congregation was initially located at 11th and Pine Streets. In 1920, it erected a church at Earl and Euclid Streets in Dayton's Bluff. On March 27, 1921, the congregation took a new name, First...

First Evangelical Free Church

Organized on April 7, 1884, by revivalists August Davis and F. M. Johnson, this congregation as the Church of Christ, this congregation went through a series of name changes in the next twenty years.  It became the Scandinavian Church of Christ on May 12, 1884, and in 1904 the First Scandinavian...