Church of the Holy Comforter (Brownsville, Minnesota)


Church of the Holy Comforter-Episcopal
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Show map of Minnesota Show map of the US
Location	Main Street, Brownsville, Minnesota
Coordinates	43°41′40″N 91°16′37″W / 43.69444°N 91.27694°W / 43.69444; -91.27694Coordinates: 43°41′40″N 91°16′37″W / 43.69444°N 91.27694°W / 43.69444; -91.27694
Built	1869
NRHP Reference #	70000298^[1]
Added to NRHP	June 2, 1970

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

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.

National register listing

The interior of the church in 2013

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

↑ National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ 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]
↑ Photo Gallery

U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota

Lists by county	Aitkin Anoka Becker Beltrami Benton Big Stone Blue Earth Brown Carlton Carver Cass Chippewa Chisago Clay Clearwater Cook Cottonwood Crow Wing Dakota Dodge Douglas Faribault Fillmore Freeborn Goodhue Grant Hennepin Houston Hubbard Isanti Itasca Jackson Kanabec Kandiyohi Kittson Koochiching Lac qui Parle Lake Lake of the Woods Le Sueur Lincoln Lyon Mahnomen Marshall Martin McLeod Meeker Mille Lacs Morrison Mower Murray Nicollet Nobles Norman Olmsted Otter Tail Pennington Pine Pipestone Polk Pope Ramsey Red Lake Redwood Renville Rice Rock Roseau Scott Sherburne Sibley St. Louis Stearns Steele Stevens Swift Todd Traverse Wabasha Wadena Waseca Washington Watonwan Wilkin Winona Wright Yellow Medicine

Other lists	Bridges National Historic Landmarks Voyageurs National Park

Keeper of the Register History of the National Register of Historic Places Property types Historic district Contributing property

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/25/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.