Dayton's Bluff

Sons of Abraham Congregation, St Paul

The congregation formed on the East Side of St. Paul (near Payne Avenue) in the 1890s, meeting at the homes of Meyer and Jennie Silberstein and Elias and Libby Caminsky. The Sons of Abraham congregation was organized in 1903 when it purchased the large, Moorish-Style, Mount Zion synagogue at East...

Hazel Park Congregational Church

Originally named People's Church of Hazel Park, Hazel Park Congregational Church was founded on October 24, 1895, by a group of community members led by Dr. Samuel George Smith (also the founder of the U of M Sociology Department).

In the late 1890s, the congregation erected a frame church on White...

First German Baptist Church, Saint Paul

 This congregation of German-speaking Baptist immigrants began meeting as a congregation in 1879 and established the First German Baptist Church on August 3, 1873.  They initially met in a hall over a store at 6th and Rosabel Streets, and occasionally met in the First English Baptist Church on...

First Evangelical Church

Organized in 1857 as the Immanuel Church of the Evangelical Association of North America, this congregation was initially located at 11th and Pine Streets. In 1920, it erected a church at Earl and Euclid Streets in Dayton's Bluff. On March 27, 1921, the congregation took a new name, First...

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...

Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church, St. Paul

Coming together initially to build a school in 1886, this German Lutheran congregation organized on April 11, 1887, as a church, a daughter church of Zion Evangelical Lutheran (Sycamore and Courtland Sts). The congregation built a frame church at 661 Forest Street in 1888 and rebuilt the building in...