Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration

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Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location: Walnut and Church Streets, Belle Plaine, Minnesota
Coordinates: 44°37′28″N 93°45′47″W / 44.62444, -93.76306Coordinates: 44°37′28″N 93°45′47″W / 44.62444, -93.76306
Built/Founded: 1869
Architect: Unknown
Architectural style(s): Stick/Eastlake
Added to NRHP: April 17, 1980
NRHP Reference#: 80002159[1]
MPS: Scott County MRA
Governing body: Local

The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, an Episcopal church building in Belle Plaine, Minnesota is a prairie gothic building with wooden buttresses. It was built in 1868 for English-speaking parishoners, but most of the rural residents at the time were German and Irish immigrants who brought their own languages and religious practices with them. The result was a church building that struggled to attract worshipers for 80 years before it was abandoned.[2] It is a Registered Historic Place.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
  2. ^ Historic Sites - Episcopal Church. Scott County Historical Society. Retrieved on 2008-05-14.
  3. ^ Nord, Mary Ann (2003). The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 0-87351-448-3. 
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