A bit of history is necessary to understand the founding of the Pilgrim Congregational Church on the Near North Side. During the 1870s, Plymouth Congregational Church, under its pastor, Henry A. Stimson, began a series of outreach programs for Scandinavian immigrants, and in 1884 established a local...
The Plymouth mission was a settlement house established by the Plymouth Congregational Church in 1879. Katherine Plant reorganized the mission into Bethel Settlement in 1897. It provided social services including a day nursery for working mothers, an employment bureau, a kindergarten, and a home...
This congregation was organized on April 28, 1857, with the first meeting held in the Old Court House and subsequent meetings in the Woodman's Hall at Washington and 2nd Avenue (which later became the St. James Hotel) and another nearby building. They erected a church on Nicollet at 4th Street...
This Christian Church, Disciples of Christ was established on February 4, 1877, in the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Ankeny on 5th Street near Hennepin Avenue (later the site of the General Electric building). Later in the month, the congregation began to rent the Swedenborgian Church at 5th Avenue...
In 1873, German Baptist settlers in the Saint Paul area founded First German Baptist Church (later known as Dayton's Bluff Baptist Church) in downtown Saint Paul, with members residing on both the East and West sides of the Mississippi River. Given the incommodious nature of travel across the river...
Like a gash lacerating the landscape, the construction of I-94 in the 1960s lacerated the historic Rondo neighborhood, nearly obliterating it from the map. But highway construction and urban renewal failed to obliterate the memory of Rondo from the minds of those who once lived there. Thanks to...
In 1895- 1920 Directories.
Russian Serbian Holy Trinity Orthodox Church. 956 Forest St., Saint Paul, MN. Est. 1916.“Little church purchased that had been built in 1907”.
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