St. John's Reformed Church - Montrose
A Congregational congregation was organized in Montrose in 1885, and in 1886 the group constructed its first building.
The first German Congregational Church was organized in 1910.
St. John's German Evangelical (Reformed) Church was built in 1913. It was affiliated with the German Congregational Church.
The congregation reorganized in 1924, but disbanded in about 1938.
The building sat empty for a couple of years. On 4 February 1940, a group of Lutherans in Montrose, Colorado, organized a Lutheran congregation. They bought the small church on Park Avenue on 11 June 1940 and called the congregation St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. [See separate entry for St. John's Lutheran Church - Montrose.]
In 2002, the building that had originally served as St. John's Reformed Church was sold to Dr. Craig Cayo, a local oral surgeon. He in turn donated the building in 2006 to the Montrose County Historical Museum and it was moved to the complex of the Museum of the Mountain West where it is called the German Lutheran Church.
Location:
600 S Park Ave.
Montrose, CO
St. John's Reformed Church in Montrose was served by the following pastors:
Rev. P. Bechtel (1910-1916)
Rev. F. Engelmann (1919-1920)
Rev. F. Brenneke (1921-1923)
Rev. Jacob Eichhorn (1924-1927)
Rev. Carl Blickensdoerfer (1925-1929)
- "Congregational Church in Colorado." Colorado Genealogy. [Online]
- Cox, Marilyn. "The Little White Church at the Museum." Montrose Press (29 January 2014). [Online]
- Eisenach, George John. A History of the German Congregational Churches in the United States (Yankton, SD: Pioneer Press, 1938): 247.
- Raddatz, Kevn P. A History of the Colorado Conference [Online]
St. John's German Evangelical Church (ca.1914).
Source: Montrose County Historical Museum.
St. John's Lutheran Church in Montrose, Colorado, built in 1913. Currently located in the complex of the Museum of the Mountain West (2014).
Source: Matt Thomas.