{"id":7181,"date":"2018-05-25T12:45:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T17:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/?p=7181"},"modified":"2018-05-25T12:45:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T17:45:38","slug":"howes-first-historic-landmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/2018\/05\/25\/howes-first-historic-landmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Howe\u2019s First Historic Landmark"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20180525desmarais\"<\/p>\n

Location: St. James AME Church,\u00a03600 Snelling Ave<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The St. James AME Church received Historic Landmark designation based on the congregation history as well as the building.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0St. James is the first African American congregation in Minneapolis and Minnesota originating in 1863.\u00a0\u00a0The congregation developed from an in-home prayer group.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The building is a one-story, stucco-clad, wood frame vernacular church with mid-century influences.\u00a0\u00a0It was built sixty years ago after the congregation had twelve other locations.\u00a0\u00a0The current name is St James African Methodist Episcopal Church; the historic name is : First African Methodist Church.\u00a0\u00a0The present location was built on this site for this community.\u00a0\u00a0They have remained in this location the longest.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The consideration for this designation was certainly the structure which has retained the integrity of workmanship present in mid-century and post-World War II churches.\u00a0\u00a0However special consideration was given for the \u201c\u2026significant events or with periods that exemplify broad patterns of cultural, political, economic, or social history.\u201d This significance is that of being the first African American congregation in Minnesota and Minneapolis.\u00a0\u00a0This appears to have been the determining factor for this designation.<\/p>\n

\u00a0St. James church is framed by the wonderful elevators and railroad cars and tracks that were in place when the church was built and more than likely employed many of its early congregants, just as it was sixty years ago.<\/p>\n

Congratulations!<\/p>\n

Photo: Jean Des Marais<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a local treasure here in Howe. Photo: Jean Des Marais<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[759,263,545,1393,1516,310,1517],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}