Historic Homes Tour Feature: 509 E. Olive St. "The Parsonage"
/A Lutheran congregation of Germans from Russia built the graceful church at the corner of Whedbee and Olive in 1914, following up in 1931 with this parsonage house, which probably replaced a smaller structure. Among the early ministers who resided here was Conrad Becker in the 1920s and 1930s. After a dispute over modifications to the original German service Becker led the “modernizing” faction elsewhere
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