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- Romanesque style, featuring round-arched windows and semi-circular rows of pews. When initially completed, the building was in a residential neighborhood surrounded by mansions of prominent citizens and merchants of the time, including Octavius Broughton, Woodbury Fisk, Thomas Andrews, Horatio P. Van Cleve, William McNair, and John Dudley. Over time the neighborhood changed to a more transient population, dominated by students attending the

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, was a member of this congregation.

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* {{Authority control 19th-century United Church of Christ church buildings Churches completed in 1886 Churches in Minneapolis Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota National Register of Historic Places in Minneapolis Romanesque Revival church buildings in Minnesota United Church of Christ churches in Minnesota