ALDERSGATE METHODIST CHURCH
3801 Wooddale Ave.

In 1946, Brookside Church merged with the Methodist Meeting House, and the combined church was renamed Aldersgate. In 1949, part of the Baston farm was purchased for $6,500 for a new church. The new church at 3801 Wooddale was dedicated on September 30, 1951. The St. Louis Park High School Glee Club, 85 strong and led by Gordon Griebenow, sang at the dedication and first vesper service.  A church school addition was completed in 1957.

From the St. Louis Park Dispatch, July 4, 1951:

The old bell hung originally in the First Methodist Church on Brownlow Avenue near Walker Street.  When the church was badly damaged by a storm [in 1925] and was dismantled, the bell was transferred to the present Aldersgate Methodist Church at 4241 Brookside Ave. 

See the church’s website at http://www.aldersgatemn.com/

1994 Photo courtesy Emory Anderson

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