Organized as a Black mission in 1907 by several white Presbyterian churches in St. Paul, the church was located at 379 Farrington Avenue. In 1913, the Reverend George W. Camp became the pastor, and he along with his wife Anna helped found the Welcome Hall Community Center in a building adjacent to...
The congregation was formed in 1895 and worshipped in two prior buildings before hiring the eminent architect Clarence H. Johnston to design this church in 1908. A beautifully maintained example of the late 19th century Carpenter Gothic style, the building contains all the elements associated with...
The congregation began in 1854 as part of the Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of St. Paul. However, since most of the congregation was Swedish, the Norwegians were allowed in 1870 to form their own congregation. In 1872, congregants erected a church at 233 East University Avenue and...
Although technically not in Old Rondo, the synagogue located just south of Marshall, the neighborhood’s southern border, was in the midst of a Jewish community that began to develop in the Rondo and the Selby-Dale area as Jewish people began to move out of the River Flats and Lower Town. A group of...
The parish was established in 1888 to service the needs of Irish immigrants. A small chapel was erected that year at 651 Virginia Street and was used by the parish until 1897 when a brick church was built on the same site.
German Lutherans who initially met as a mission of Trinity Norwegian Lutheran Church established their own congregation in 1890. The land was acquired at that time at 739 Lafond Avenue and a brick Gothic Revival church, dedicated in 1891, was erected on the site. The building suffered severe damage...
The sixteenth-century Spanish missionary to Africa, Peter Claver, was canonized in 1888 when Archbishop John Ireland began a missionary effort to attract African Americans to join the Catholic Church. Three years later enough African Americans had converted to Catholicism that it became necessary...
A daughter of Assumption Church founded in 1855 for German immigrants, St. Agnes was one of three Catholic churches established in St. Paul in the 1880s to service the need of the city’s growing immigrant population. (The others were Saint Adalbert’s for the Polish and Saint Vincent de Paul for the...