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
This postcard shows the 1938 - 1939 Minnesota State FFA Class Champion basketball team. It has a postmark stamp of Esko, Apr 20 A.M. 1939 Minn, and was addressed to Andrew E. Maunu in 302 - 17th Longview, Washington, c/o Columbia Hotel.
Northward view of the St. Peter business district begins at the intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Nassau Street. It reaches as far as the beginning of the boulevard at Skaro Street. The Nicollet County Bank is at the left, and the First National Bank is at the right.
The members of the Lafayette, MN baseball team are shown in this photograph that was taken about 1935. The names are written on the back of the postcard.
St. Peter business district looking northward along South Minnesota Avenue from a location at its intersection with Grace Street. Many old cars are visible, and the signs of many of the stores can be read. The boulevard that started at Skaro Street can be seen in the far distance in the middle of the photograph.
The Hotel Del Otero's entrance has a wooden sign overhead, in addition to a sign on each side, one advertising special dinners and dancing, A.F. King, Proprietor, and the flag is flying from the tour seen through the trees.
The aerial view shows the three-story hotel with its four-story octagonal tower and many porches, its water tower and wooded grounds, and the railroad tracks behind the hotel.
Inside barracks at the Spruce Creek CCC camp at Lutsen, Minnesota, and the Cascade River area. This photo shows one enrollee on his bunk of cabin 14. From the scrapbook of Harold Moe, enrollee.
Campus view includes the Administration Building. Central High School is also in the background on the right. In far background, possibly the Minnesota State Capitol or St. Paul Cathedral.
Another Great Depression-era building whose life hangs in the balance. It stands empty since the City of Ely built a new library and left the building untenented. In its heyday it housed the library, club rooms, a ballroom on the top floor with a movie theater, a full kitchen, public showers, and more.