This postcard shows a view of the German Lutheran Church in St. Peter, which was located on the northeast corner of the intersection of Mulberry and Fifth streets, facing Mulberry. The church is more properly known as the St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Reverend C. B. L. Boman, as the subject of this photo, is shown in the pulpit of a church. He began serving the congregation of the Bernadotte Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bernadotte, Minnesota. in 1905. Reverend Boman previously served in Moore's Prairie, Minnesota.
Construction of this St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church in St. Peter, Minnesota, began in 1869. A new church was constructed on the same site at 427 West Mulberry Street in 1923, and another in 1998 after the destruction of the 1923 church by a tornado in March of 1998.