J. Roscoe Furber (Church Moderator) and Howard Conn (Senior Minister) attend the unveiling of a plaque that marks the former location of Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the dedication of the new Midwest Federal Building. In 2014 a Barnes and Nobles is located on the ground floor. In 1875, Plymouth Congregational Church opened its third building four blocks south of the second church on the southeast corner of Eighth Street and Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where a small boarding house had stood. Unsatisfied with the work of local architects, Plymouth�s minister, Henry Stimson, with the help of choir member Samuel Gale, sketched a design and then recruited New York architect Russell Sturgis, who reluctantly agreed to use the design. The structure was unusual for Minneapolis. The large interior included gallery seating. The exterior combined stone and brick. The congregation worshipped here until 1907, when growing membership once again forced the congregation to move to its location on Groveland Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The front of the Kidder House is on LaSalle Avenue south of Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Plymouth's chapel dedicated in 1950 is visible to the left. The neighborhood mansion was owned by William and Lorraine Kidder until the church purchased the property in 1957. For a decade it was used as a duplex residence for assistant ministers and housed youth programs in the lower level. The deteriorating building was razed in September, 1967, to expand parking.
People are coming out of the church and many people are standing outside still visiting after a Sunday church service. The church was built in 1928 and dismantled in 1968 after the congregation merged with the Methodist church in Hendricks Minnesota.
Exterior view of Salem Covenant Church, Duluth, Minnesota taken from across 59th Avenue West, looking West. The view is of the east and north side of the church.