CR 29 off MI Hwy. 246, Nerstrand, Minnesota. County/parish: Rice.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 06, 1982. NRIS 82003026.
Part of Rice County MRA (NRIS 64000372).
2 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site.
Valley Grove is a historic Lutheran church complex in Wheeling Township, Minnesota, United States. It consists of two 19th-century churches surrounded by a hilltop cemetery. The older building was constructed in stone in 1862 by a rural community of Norwegian immigrants. The congregation outgrew the first church and constructed a larger, wooden replacement in 1894, converting the original building into a guild hall. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for its local significance in the themes of architecture, art, and religion. It was nominated for encapsulating two phases of rural ecclesiastical architecture in a dramatic hilltop tableau, and for its role in anchoring eastern Rice County's dispersed community of Norwegian immigrants.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93200897