4241 BROOKSIDE AVENUE

Brookside Community Church (Methodist Episcopal) was built at 4241 Brookside Avenue in 1915. Members had first met in a cottage and opened a Sunday school in 1913. The 24' by 40' building was enlarged in 1927 and 1934. In 1928, Dr. Frank Edward Day became pastor, and built the church membership from 32 to 200. He retired in 1935.

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 in September 1951. A church school addition was completed in 1957.

In 1950, the original Brookside church building became the First Church of Christ Scientist of St. Louis Park, and was attended by the nearby Jackley family and Mrs. Smith of the Colonial Inn, among others. In 1958, a Christian Science Reading Room was located at 5407 Excelsior Blvd. Due to dwindling membership, Christmas Day, 1988, was the last day of services for the Christian Scientist in the Brookside building.

On March 12, 1989, 84 members dedicated Anglican Church of St. Dunstan. The congregation had been meeting in the Edina-Morningside Community Congregational Church and purchased the small building for $175,000. The church is the only ACA Anglican Church in the State of Minnesota. There is an Anglican mission church in Hopkins, but St. Dunstan's is a full Anglican Church.

 

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