A postcard showing the front, exterior of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Spring Valley. In the spring of 1876 a church lot was purchased at the cost of $250. Plans and detailed specifications were procured from Saratoga, N.Y. for a Gothic Victorian brick church with stone trimming, basement and corner tower; size 39 by 60 feet with addition in the rear for choir and pastor's study. Work was begun in August 1876. It was thought best to finish the basement, and prepare it for use, and accordingly it was opened for Devine worship on December 24, 1876. Pledges for the work secured that day amounted to $2780. During the following summer the spire was completed, and in October a Troy bell weighing 1,200 lbs. and costing $380 was hung in the tower. The audience room of the church was not completed until August 1978 and the services moved from the basement to the upper room. The church had a set of 13 Italian windows.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
Exterior view of Bethlehem Evangelical Church, founded in 1862. "During the pastorate of Rev. D. J. Nagle, a man of vision, courage and faith, the construction of a new and larger brick edifice was built in five months for the cost of $10,000 in 1937, during the Great Depression," (from a Hammond history). Written on the back: "C. W. Blue, Representing A. C. Ochs Brick and Tile Company, Springfield, Minnesota."
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
The Evangelical Headquarters Dining Hall was a fundraiser for the Evangelical Hospital and Deaconess Home in St. Paul. This Hospital became the West Side General Hospital. The group is sitting at the "Rail-O'matic" serving machine also known as "Baitinger's Automatic Eat". This device patented in 1923 helped serve hungry visitors at the Minnesota State Fair, Evangelical Dining Hall. In the spring 1919 edition of the "Life Line", the newsletter of the Evangelical Hospital and Deaconess Home, Rev. Baitinger describes it like this, "All foodstuffs will be automatically conveyed to the guests seated at the table, also all return dishes will find their way back into the kitchen automatically. No waiters will be necessary in this dining hall; everything will take care of itself. The only business of the guest is to take what he wants, all he wants and eat to his heart's content."
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
Morgan Park; initial Neighborhood House was intended for a recreation and social center; it was donated to the Catholic church for a Catholic School in 1927; sidewalk; bushes; trees
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
A photograph showing the exterior of the two story brick structure. The congregation began in 1878, building this structure in 1922-24 with a dedication service on January 20, 1924. The cost of the building was $37,000. It was located on 4th St. South and was sold to a Baptist group in 1961 when a new Methodist Church was built.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
Several churches in Nicollet, Minnesota, are shown on this postcard. Trinity Lutheran Church is in the upper left corner. The Friedens Church is in the foreground in the upper right corner. To its left is the Methodist or Zion Evangelical United Brethren Church. The one in the distance is the Lutheran Church. The Church of St. Paul is shown in the lower right corner of this postcard.
Postcard depicting the Hamline Methodist Episcopal Church at 1514 Englewood after its spire blew off. Built in 1900, the church was destroyed by fire in December 1925.
Postcard with composite images of five churches in Mapleton, Minnesota. Message on reverse addressed to Miss Elsie Langfield of Champlin, Minnesota, postmarked Mapleton.
This view from the end of the dock faces the stone wall and steps built along the shoreline of the Methodist Young People's Lakeside Assembly Association grounds, with two men in the foreground viewing the lake, several buildings in the background nestled in the trees. It was located on the border between Woodland and Minnetonka. Message from resident to her mother that her room is upstairs in a cottage with the front screened in.
The St. Columbia Mission, located on Gull Lake in Minnesota. This image is by Arthur Adams, Minneapolis high school teacher, local historian, and photographer. Adams traveled throughout Minnesota, taking photographs to augment his lectures. His studio was located at 3648 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.
"My Message" was the newsletter of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, published from 1916-1919. It was conceived of by Bishop Joseph F. Busch as an auxiliary to religious participation to include articles on religious subjects of interest to Catholic people, programs for the Holy Name and other societies, official diocesan communications, and a personal message of the bishop.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University
"My Message" was the newsletter of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, published from 1916-1919. It was conceived of by Bishop Joseph F. Busch as an auxiliary to religious participation to include articles on religious subjects of interest to Catholic people, programs for the Holy Name and other societies, official diocesan communications, and a personal message of the bishop.
Contributing Institution:
College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University