Research Items

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

Unity House Social Settlement

1897:  Organized by pastors from Church of the Redeemer and First Universalist Church.

1898:  Located at 1611 Washington Ave. N.

1898:  Programs include kindergarten classes, evening school, day nursery, boy and girls’ clubs, and "relief" work.

1911: New building at 250 17th Ave. N.  Now has a...

Unity Truth Center, Minneapolis

This congregation was founded in 1913 as a branch of the Unity Church, a national movement led by Charles and Myrtle Fillmore that emerged out of New Thought in the 1890s. The Minneapolis congregation was founded by charter members Ruth Ridges and Anna H. Ray and met at 1198 Nicollet Avenue. In...

Unity Unitarian Church, St. Paul

The first Unitarian meetings were held in St. Paul in 1852 by visiting missionaries. The first congregation, however, organized twenty years later, meeting in the old Temperance Street Church from 1872 to 1875.  The congregation moved to the Universalist Church, meeting there from 1875 to 1881.  The...

University Avenue Congregational Church, St. Paul

The congregation was formed in 1895 and worshipped in two prior buildings before hiring the eminent architect Clarence H. Johnston to design this church in 1908. A beautifully maintained example of the late 19th century Carpenter Gothic style, the building contains all the elements associated with...