Sinking Gardens, E. Main St., Lead, South Dakota. County/parish: Lawrence.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 13, 1985. NRIS 85003487.
Part of Architecture of Finnish Settlement TR (NRIS 64000790).
Old Finnish Lutheran Church is a historic church in Sinking Gardens on E. Main Street in Lead, South Dakota. It was built in 1891 and was added to the National Register in 1985.
It was built in 1891 by John Niemi and John Saari. One of the church's members painted "an unusual altar painting" during 1905–1907.
It was moved in 1963 across the street to its current location, the Sinking Gardens, an area of subsidence facing onto Lead's Main Street.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93203922