Research Items

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

Dayton Bluff (German) Methodist Episcopal Church, Saint Paul

This congregation was established in 1884 when members of three Methodist Episcopal churches in the area (Woodbury, First German ME, and Second ME) came together to find a church in the new Dayton's Bluff neighborhood. The group erected a brick church at the corner of Maple and 4th Street. Services...

Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Church, Minneapolis

A daughter church to First Methodist Episcopal Church, Ebenezer ME was organized in 1892 by Swedish members who had moved to northeast Minneapolis. The group initially held their meetings in a store at 2201 Central Avenue NE. In 1897 the congregation erected a brick church with a seating capacity of...

Elim Swedish Baptist Church

The Elim Swedish Baptist congregation was established in 1888 by Swedish immigrants who were attending meetings held in several buildings prior to constructing their church in the midst of Lutheran churches at 685 13th Ave. NE.  Designed by A. G. Wass and built-in 1904, this is the only one of the...

Emanuel Lutheran Church, Minneapolis

A daughter of Augustana Lutheran Church, the city’s first Swedish Lutheran Congregation, Emanuel traces its history back to 1872, when a group of Swedish immigrants began to meet in a room on Main Street NE.  By 1878, the group had grown and organized a Sunday School that was taken over by Augustana...

Emerson Avenue (Baptist) Mission, Minneapolis

Organized in 1884, this mission of the Baptist Union located at 910 Emerson Ave. North, was under the leadership of Superintendent, Chelsea J. Rockwood. The mission hosted a Sunday school, gospel meetings, and the Cheerful Gleaners mission band (City Directory, 1888).  By 1893, when N. C. Chapin...