West Side

Riverview Baptist Church, Saint Paul

In 1873, German Baptist settlers in the Saint Paul area founded First German Baptist Church (later known as Dayton's Bluff Baptist Church) in downtown Saint Paul, with members residing on both the East and West sides of the Mississippi River. Given the incommodious nature of travel across the river...

West Side Flats, St. Paul

 

Of all the neighborhoods in this study, perhaps no other has attained as legendary status as the West Side Flats, due to the books and memoirs written by those who grew up there, research papers published by sociologists examining their lives, historians, and geographers trying to accurately...

St. Stephen's Lutheran Church, St. Paul

    Initially called the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Emmanuel Congregation, this group was organized on January 20, 1882, in the courthouse in St. Paul. They met the next week in the courthouse for a service and then rented the Methodist church (on Rice Park?) for services. The congregation built a...

St. Paul Hebrew Institute and Sheltering Arms, St. Paul

In 1911 a new building located at Fenton and Kentucky Streets on Saint Paul’s West Side River Flats was constructed by the Orthodox congregations serving the Jewish settlers living in that neighborhood.  The small synagogues constructed by the congregations did not have the space or facilities to...

St. Michael Roman Catholic Church, Saint Paul

This congregation was organized as a mission in 1866 under the leadership of Bishop Thomas Grace, for Irish Catholics living on west side of the Wabasha Bridge, many of whom could not afford the toll required to cross the bridge to attend services in downtown St. Paul.  A church was built on Parnell...

St. George Syrian Orthodox, St. Paul

Immigrants from Syria and Lebanon began arriving in the Twin Cities in the 1890s, and many settled on the West Side of Saint Paul. These groups held services in their homes when an Orthodox priest was available. In 1913, a congregation was formally organized, and in 1917 the group purchased the...

Sons [B'Nai] of Zion, St. Paul

The congregation was organized in 1883 by newer Russian Jewish immigrants who did not want to affiliate with the already established Orthodox Sons of Jacob synagogue generally known as a “Polish” congregation.  Naming their new congregation the Sons of Zion, its members initially met in a tent set...