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Whipple served as rector of Zion Church from 1849 to 1857, becoming known both for the size and wealth of his parish and for his work among the poor. In 1857, Whipple helped organize and became the first rector of the Church of the Holy Communion, on Chicago's South Side, the first free church in the city. He drew his parishioners from "the ...
It is Benson's oldest church, built in 1879 as part of the Episcopal Church's ambitious expansion into western Minnesota under Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple. [2] Back of church building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 as Christ Church-Episcopal for having local significance in the themes of architecture and ...
St. Cornelia's Episcopal Church is a historic church on the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation near Morton, Minnesota, United States.It was built 1889–91 for a Dakota congregation returning after years of exile from Minnesota following the Dakota War of 1862.
A typical plaque found on properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of sites, buildings, structures, districts, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".
The school was founded on the property of the former Episcopalian Bishop Whipple School, which had closed in 1887. [9] English professor Ingebrikt Grose of St. Olaf College was asked to preside over the academy, [10] which at that time offered mixed-sex education in English literature, natural sciences, mathematics, piano, and organ. [11]
William Whipple, born and raised in Kittery, Maine, was a merchant sea captain who went on to serve as a militia general during the Revolutionary War and a Continental Congress delegate who signed ...
The Historic Preservation Commission has started a plaque program where homes 70 years and older can be noted with a metal sign telling the year it was built. Ilene Crutchfield, one of the first ...
In 1870 Bishop Henry Whipple asked the Reverend Solomon Stephens Burleson [3] (1833-1897), then the rector of All Saints in Northfield, to visit the city and consider becoming its resident pastor. On January 14, 1871, the Blue Earth City Post reported that “the question of building an Episcopal Church at this place will be decided during the ...