Location: 30th Ave S. and 33rd St.
The Vanderburgh congregation’s original church burned in 1913, and all church records were lost. The congregation erected this building in the same year and worshiped in it until about 1937.
Leadership: Rev. Frank Zimmerman, Rev. L.C. Badger, Rev. William...
See Park Avenue Congregational church, Minneapolis.
The First Society of the New Church of St. Paul, a Swedenborgian or New Jerusalem congregation, had organized on January 6, 1860, but services were held sporadically. In the winter of 1872-73, a more formal organization was formed in the room of the Y.M.C.A. on 3rd Street. The Reverend Edward Craig...
Wayman AME Church was organized in 1919 to serve the needs of residents living on the North Side. It was organized in a home located at 6th and Emerson Avenue North with several members of St. Peter’s and St. James (the two South Side churches) present. The congregation was named for Bishop...
1906: Wells Memorial was established as a combined church mission and settlement house by St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. Originally located on 6th St. between Nicollet & Hennepin Avenues.
1908: Wells Memorial Inc. Settlement House was established to provide medical, social, and educational services...
On October 27, 1880, several members of Welsh descent began holding Sunday evening prayer meetings at the home of Mr. D. H. Evans. They soon began to rent the Norwegian Church on 19th Avenue South, between 5th and 6th Streets. They organized their church in April 1881, at the corner of Franklin and...
Of all the neighborhoods in this study, perhaps no other has attained as legendary status as the West Side Flats, due to the books and memoirs written by those who grew up there, research papers published by sociologists examining their lives, historians, and geographers trying to accurately...
See: https://www.westminstermpls.org/visit/about/history/