Church of the Holy Comforter (Brownsville, Minnesota)

Church of the Holy Comforter Brownsville, Minnesota
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Location:	Main Street Brownsville, Minnesota
Built/Founded:	1869
Added to NRHP:	June 2, 1970
NRHP Reference#:	70000298^[1]
Governing body:	Private

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This article is about the Church of the Holy Comforter in Brownsville, Minnesota. For other uses, see Church of the Holy Comforter.

The Church of the Holy Comforter built in 1872 is an historic Carpenter Gothic church located on Main Street, in Brownsville, Minnesota, on the west bank of the Mississippi River in the United States. It began as an Episcopal church, but later became a Methodist Episcopal church. In the 1940s it became Emmanuel Lutheran Church. It had been vacant since 1963.^[2] On June 2, 1970, the church was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

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The church is not in use but is open by appointment only.^[3]

^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
^ Smith, Thomas J. "The Little Brown Church in the Vale." WELS Historical Institute Journal 9 (1991) Nos. 1-2:13-22. [History of Emanuel Lutheran Church, Brownsville, MN, 1940s-1963, as listed in {http://luthhist.org/bibliography/1991.html]
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