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This congregation was established in 1886 as a German national parish. The church,  at the corner of Hall Avenue and Robie Street, was dedicated in 1887. 

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The Roman Catholic Church of the Ascension was established on the North Side in 1890 to serve the needs primarily of German and a lesser number of Irish immigrants who were living further north near Broadway. After outgrowing its initial small wooden church, the congregation erected a larger, more...

The Church of the Good Shepherd was an integrated, although predominantly white, Episcopal congregation. In June 1888, at the request of some members of the African American community, the church considered separate special services for its African American congregants. This vision failed to be...

 Immaculate Conception was founded in 1868 by Father James McGorlick as an addition to a school opened two years earlier by the pastor of the nearby Church of St. Anthony of Padua.  In 1873, the parish consisting primarily of Irish immigrants dedicated a new church and school located at Third Street...

Although the Roman Catholic Church of the Most Holy Redeemer was not organized as a parish until May 27, 1901, priests from the Cathedral of St. Paul had been attending to the religious needs of the Italian community in the city on a missionary basis since 1874.  The congregation was officially...

Established on October 24, 1859, this congregation met in the Old Cataract House on Washington Avenue and 6th Avenue South. Later meetings in the 1860s were held in Morrison Hall and Harrison Hall. In October 1866 the congregation moved into a frame building it erected (address unknown). This...

Clinton Avenue Methodist Church was located on Clinton Avenue on Saint Paul’s West Side river flats. In 1909 the congregation installed an Estey Organ, op. 656 that, in 1919 following a merger of Methodist churches, was installed in St. Paul’s Methodist church, located on George Street. The Clinton...