Tabor Congregational Church is a historic
Congregational
Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches or Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Calvinist tradition practising congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its ...
church at 403 Elm Street in
Tabor, Iowa
Tabor is a city in Fremont County and extends northward into Mills County in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 928 at the time of the 2020 census.
Geography
Tabor is located at (40.896605, -95.672368).
According to the United States ...
, USA.
The church was designed by J.K. Nutting, who pastored
The Little Brown Church and is similar in design to that church. The church building was completed in 1875. Before its completion, the congregation met in the chapel at
Tabor College. The founding minister was
John Todd), a prominent abolitionist in Tabor. The church building was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 2011.
[James Patrick Morgans, ''John Todd and the Underground Railroad: biography of an Iowa abolitionist'', (McFarland, 2006), pg. 153]
References
Churches completed in 1875
United Church of Christ churches in Iowa
Gothic Revival church buildings in Iowa
National Register of Historic Places in Fremont County, Iowa
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
Buildings and structures in Fremont County, Iowa
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