Downtown St. Paul

Located at 6th Street and Rosabel. 

Reverend J. W. King of St. Paul’s African Mission and later Industrial Mission Church (1903-1906) and his wife, Mrs. Fannie King, African American migrant from Illinois, established the “Crispus Attucks Industrial School and Colored Old Folks’ and Orphans’ Home” in January 1906. Although the...

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...

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...

Although Episcopal services were held in the region as early as 1842 regular congregational meetings began in 1850, in a schoolhouse on West 3rd Street. The group began erecting a church in the fall of that year on Cedar Street, between 3rd and 4th Streets. During the spring of 1851, the...

This downtown St. Paul congregation was founded by the Reverend John Riheldaffer in 1852 as a Presbyterian "Old School" church. A "New School" church, First Presbyterian, had been founded in 1849 by Edward Duffield Neill. The Central congregation, named in honor of Central Presbyterian in...

Organized by the first Methodist missionaries to the region, this congregation began meeting in the home of Mr. Jackson on 5th Street between Robert and Jackson and later moved to the Central Hotel on Bench Street (later 2nd Street and now Kellogg Boulevard).  The congregation erected a brick church...