A typical church design, seen all across the United States for many decades as pioneers moved west and took their faith along with them. The family shown are visitors, not churchgoers in this image. In the era this picture was taken women wore hats and gloves to church and boys would be expected to dress in a suit and tie like the grown men.
Made by Dexter Press, West Nyack, N.Y.
The description states:
THE OLD LUTHERAN CHURCH
The first church built in Minden, moved from its original site to the Pioneer Village in 1951, when a new stone and brick edifice was constructed.
— This card dates from the 1950s.
I believe my great grandmother may have tatted or crocheted an alter cloth for this church. My grandfather, her son attended this church as a boy. His brother’s name was John. The family name was Koch. My mother’s name was Phyllis Margene Koch Fromm. She was born in April of 1927. She passed away in 2011. I miss all of these most dear ones and bless this church that they worshipped in and found hope in. I am thankful it is standing still.
I greatly appreciate you sharing your personal history with this building. It is for this reason that preservation of such structures has meaning long after they are no longer an active facility.
Thank you I am grateful
I just came across a photo of me and my parents on the front porch of the church in 1981. I would like to visit it again Now that I am older.