The Bernadotte Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bernadotte, Minnesota, was known as the New Sweden Church until 1890. This photo shows an interior view of the congregation's first church, on which construction began in 1872.
Members of the choir of the Church of the Holy Communion in St. Peter. The church is located on the west side of Minnesota Avenue between Broadway and Chestnut street.
This is a photograph of the Church of the Holy Communion in St. Peter. The church is located on the west side of Minnesota Avenue between Broadway and Chestnut street.
This stereo photograph shows the interior of the Church of the Holy Communion in St. Peter. The church is located on the west side of Minnesota Avenue between Broadway and Chestnut street.
This is the First Lutheran Church in St. Peter, also known as the Swedish Lutheran Church. It was located on the northwest corner of the intersection of South Fourth and Elm Streets, facing Fourth Street.
Exterior of the first United Brethren church built in the Minnesota Conference. Built in 1868 by Rev. John Haney who cut the logs and hauled them with an ox team and put up the logs as high as he could reach all alone. Located in LeSueur Circuit at Horseshoe Lake, Rice Co. The cabin measured 18' by 24'.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
This photograph shows the building that had been constructed as the Presbyterian Church in the village of Traverse des Sioux in Nicollet County. The building was used until the congregation merged with one in St. Peter, after which it was used for several other purposes before its abandonment.
Dinner for delegates of the General Conference of the Evangelical Association in 1899 held at the Pine Street church in St. Paul. Bishops Horn, Breyfogel and Bowman are identified in the photograph. "St. Paul Pine Street church extended the invitation for the General Conference of the Evangelical Association to hold its annual meeting in St. Paul. A vacant store building was rented and fitted up for a dining hall and kitchen on the first floor. The second floor was made into sleeping apartments" (Utzinger's History of the Minnesota Conference of the Evangelical Association 1856 to 1922, p. 181). This is the only time the General Conference met in Minnesota. To finance the event offerings were taken at all of the Minnesota Conference congregations and $403.29 was raised.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
The interior of Hasting Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. Smith, (believed to be D. S. Smith) an early pastor of the M. E. church at Hastings. Picture showing church on Easter Day. First organized in 1856 the first church was built in 1861.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
Exterior view of the Horeb Calvinistic Methodist Church with church members in front of the buildings (note: members are listed on reverse of photograph).