I used to write about a local historic church every Saturday. It has been a hobby of mine for years to photograph them and I do that in the twin cities and all over the country when ever I have the opportunity. Unfortunately it is hard to find information about many of them. The churches that do have web sites rarely have information about the building. Some can be found on the historic registers but not all. They are built by one denomination and half a century later sold to another and then in some cases they change hands every decade or so after that.
The history of the building becomes unimportant and gets lost in the shuffle. It would be nice to have one web site that has all the churches on it and a place where buyers and sellers can get information. There seems to be an underserved market for people looking to buy or sell churches. I am not sure I am ready to take on that project but I continue to take my photos and collect information.
The church in the picture couldn't be found on the Internet. It looks like it was built in the 1800's but I am not sure. It is located on highway 61 blvd just east of the 316 shoer cut to Hastings from Welch Village, MN
This from Dave, one of our readers:
Here's the Minnesota Historical Society's National Register of Historic Places summary for the Cross of Christ Lutheran Church which was originally the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Welch when built in 1878, according NRHP data extracted by waymarking.com.
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As someone who is currently attempting to buy an historic church, a central repository would be great. Trying to obtain a loan, even a portfolio, is very difficult. How do you find comps, what kind of comps do you use? As a residential property should they simply look at other 3 BR properties, as this building will be when the basement renovation is complete? Should it be on square footage, good luck with that. Having a website that maintains records on for sale churches, churches sold for reuse purposes and an historic database, would be great.
Are you sure you aren’t the one to do this? Don’t we agents have all the time in the world this days? Hah!
Here’s the Minnesota Historical Society’s National Register of Historic
Places summary for the Cross of Christ Lutheran Church
(http://nrhp.mnhs.org/NRDetails.cfm?NPSNum=80002057), which was
originally the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Welch when built
in 1878, according NRHP data extracted by waymarking.com at
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM4K09.