The former St. Stephen's Episcopal Church also known as St. Stephen's Church, is an historic stone

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church building located on the southeast corner of 3rd Avenue and 5th Street in Casselton,

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, United States. Built in 1886, it was designed by

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-born Fargo architect George Hancock and built by stonemason Nathaniel Maconachie. It was consecrated in August, 1887, and shared ministers with the Old Stone Church (Calvary Episcopal) in Buffalo for many years. After the congregation dwindled, the building was sold in 1950 to the Casselton Mennonite Church, which worshiped in it until 2002, when the building was closed again. In 2004, the Mennonite congregation donated the church to the Casselton Heritage Center, Inc., which now operates it as a community center. On December 3, 1992, it was added to the

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.Casselton Heritage Center
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* Episcopal church buildings in North Dakota Gothic Revival church buildings in North Dakota Mennonite church buildings in North Dakota Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in North Dakota Churches completed in 1886 Stone churches in North Dakota Historic American Buildings Survey in North Dakota 19th-century Episcopal church buildings National Register of Historic Places in Cass County, North Dakota 1886 establishments in Dakota Territory Community centers in the United States {{NorthDakota-church-stub