St. Cornelia's Episcopal Church, Morton, MN (4)
**St. Cornelia's Episcopal Church** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 79003717, date listed 10/11/1979
Off Co. Hwy. 2
Morton, MN (Redwood County)
St. Cornelia's Episcopal Mission Church is a small Gothic Revival structure of granite native to the area. The cruciform plan building includes a crenelated tower at the north transcept and a small narthex extension at the entrance (west facade). Battered buttresses mark the bays of the nave of the church. Memorials include a rose window on the upper front gable for Bishop Henry Whipple's wife, Cornelia, and an arched window over the altar for Rev. S.D. Hinman, who began mission work with the Dakota during the Agency period, are of brick and rafters are exposed.
The church is situated in a central green area at the Lower Sioux Community. Construction of a stone church had begun at the nearby Lower Agency before the 1862 Uprising, but the building was never completed. Materials from this structure were transported a few miles west to the Lower Sioux Community site in 1889 for the construction of the present building. Two distinct colors of stone on the structure may reflect the use of both the earlier obtained materials and the stone quarried at the time of the building's completion. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg...
St. Cornelia's Episcopal Church, Morton, MN (4)
**St. Cornelia's Episcopal Church** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 79003717, date listed 10/11/1979
Off Co. Hwy. 2
Morton, MN (Redwood County)
St. Cornelia's Episcopal Mission Church is a small Gothic Revival structure of granite native to the area. The cruciform plan building includes a crenelated tower at the north transcept and a small narthex extension at the entrance (west facade). Battered buttresses mark the bays of the nave of the church. Memorials include a rose window on the upper front gable for Bishop Henry Whipple's wife, Cornelia, and an arched window over the altar for Rev. S.D. Hinman, who began mission work with the Dakota during the Agency period, are of brick and rafters are exposed.
The church is situated in a central green area at the Lower Sioux Community. Construction of a stone church had begun at the nearby Lower Agency before the 1862 Uprising, but the building was never completed. Materials from this structure were transported a few miles west to the Lower Sioux Community site in 1889 for the construction of the present building. Two distinct colors of stone on the structure may reflect the use of both the earlier obtained materials and the stone quarried at the time of the building's completion. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg...