GERMAN (GRACE) METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH - Revision history

https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=GERMAN_%28GRACE%29_METHODIST_EPISCOPAL_CHURCH GERMAN (GRACE) METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH - Revision history 2026-05-21T08:39:28Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.45.1 https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=GERMAN_(GRACE)_METHODIST_EPISCOPAL_CHURCH&diff=182955&oldid=prev Randylyon at 02:47, 11 November 2024 2024-11-11T02:47:57Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:47, 11 November 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l10">Line 10:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 10:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2021 during a major restoration of the old building by [[UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP]], HeritageWorks, and [[GRONEN PROPERTIES/GRONEN RESTORATION]], a tin box was found underneath the cornerstone. According to documents found inside, the box was place there on June 14, 1885. The box contained several German publications, a newspaper, a journal called "Haus and Herd"(Home and Hearth). the broadsheet of the ''Dubuque Sunday Times'', and a letter signed by the church secretary, Fred Wirth. There was also a five-cent piece and a $5 Wisconsin Territories endorsed by the secretary. Wirth's letter noted that the construction of the church had cost $4,000 and that the church had gained $2,000 from the sale of the old church.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2021 during a major restoration of the old building by [[UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP]], HeritageWorks, and [[GRONEN PROPERTIES/GRONEN RESTORATION]], a tin box was found underneath the cornerstone. According to documents found inside, the box was place there on June 14, 1885. The box contained several German publications, a newspaper, a journal called "Haus and Herd"(Home and Hearth). the broadsheet of the ''Dubuque Sunday Times'', and a letter signed by the church secretary, Fred Wirth. There was also a five-cent piece and a $5 Wisconsin Territories endorsed by the secretary. Wirth's letter noted that the construction of the church had cost $4,000 and that the church had gained $2,000 from the sale of the old church.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The three-year $2.1 million restoration project came to an end on October 25, 2023 as the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship displayed the completed project. The building had been purchased in 2004. In 2019 a photograph of the original building was discovered by John E. Butler showing an original steeple which had long since disappeared. [[BUTLER, John E. and Alice|John E. and Alice Butler]] pledged a two-to-one match as funds for renovation began including the reconstruction of the steeple. One modern addition to the church was the installation of an elevator which allowed the fellowship space below to be utilized.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The three-year $2.1 million restoration project <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of Unity Church </ins>came to an end on October 25, 2023 as the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship displayed the completed project. The building had been purchased in 2004. In 2019 a photograph of the original building was discovered by John E. Butler showing an original steeple which had long since disappeared. [[BUTLER, John E. and Alice|John E. and Alice Butler]] pledged a two-to-one match as funds for renovation began including the reconstruction of the steeple. One modern addition to the church was the installation of an elevator which allowed the fellowship space below to be utilized.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The newly restored building </del>was nicknamed "The Gem of [[JACKSON PARK]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Unity Church </ins>was nicknamed "The Gem of [[JACKSON PARK]].</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>---</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>---</div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=GERMAN_(GRACE)_METHODIST_EPISCOPAL_CHURCH&diff=182917&oldid=prev Randylyon at 20:33, 7 November 2024 2024-11-07T20:33:56Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:33, 7 November 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l12">Line 12:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 12:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The three-year $2.1 million restoration project came to an end on October 25, 2023 as the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship displayed the completed project. The building had been purchased in 2004. In 2019 a photograph of the original building was discovered by John E. Butler showing an original steeple which had long since disappeared. [[BUTLER, John E. and Alice|John E. and Alice Butler]] pledged a two-to-one match as funds for renovation began including the reconstruction of the steeple. One modern addition to the church was the installation of an elevator which allowed the fellowship space below to be utilized.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The three-year $2.1 million restoration project came to an end on October 25, 2023 as the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship displayed the completed project. The building had been purchased in 2004. In 2019 a photograph of the original building was discovered by John E. Butler showing an original steeple which had long since disappeared. [[BUTLER, John E. and Alice|John E. and Alice Butler]] pledged a two-to-one match as funds for renovation began including the reconstruction of the steeple. One modern addition to the church was the installation of an elevator which allowed the fellowship space below to be utilized.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The newly restored building was nicknamed "The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gen </del>of [[JACKSON PARK]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The newly restored building was nicknamed "The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gem </ins>of [[JACKSON PARK]].</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>---</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>---</div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=GERMAN_(GRACE)_METHODIST_EPISCOPAL_CHURCH&diff=182916&oldid=prev Randylyon at 20:33, 7 November 2024 2024-11-07T20:33:37Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:33, 7 November 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l10">Line 10:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 10:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2021 during a major restoration of the old building by [[UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP]], HeritageWorks, and [[GRONEN PROPERTIES/GRONEN RESTORATION]], a tin box was found underneath the cornerstone. According to documents found inside, the box was place there on June 14, 1885. The box contained several German publications, a newspaper, a journal called "Haus and Herd"(Home and Hearth). the broadsheet of the ''Dubuque Sunday Times'', and a letter signed by the church secretary, Fred Wirth. There was also a five-cent piece and a $5 Wisconsin Territories endorsed by the secretary. Wirth's letter noted that the construction of the church had cost $4,000 and that the church had gained $2,000 from the sale of the old church.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2021 during a major restoration of the old building by [[UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP]], HeritageWorks, and [[GRONEN PROPERTIES/GRONEN RESTORATION]], a tin box was found underneath the cornerstone. According to documents found inside, the box was place there on June 14, 1885. The box contained several German publications, a newspaper, a journal called "Haus and Herd"(Home and Hearth). the broadsheet of the ''Dubuque Sunday Times'', and a letter signed by the church secretary, Fred Wirth. There was also a five-cent piece and a $5 Wisconsin Territories endorsed by the secretary. Wirth's letter noted that the construction of the church had cost $4,000 and that the church had gained $2,000 from the sale of the old church.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The three-year $2.1 million restoration project came to an end on October 25, 2023 as the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship displayed the completed project. The building had been purchased in 2004. In 2019 a photograph of the original building was discovered by John Butler showing an original steeple which had long since disappeared. [[BUTLER, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">JohN </del>E. and Alice|John E. and Alice Butler]] pledged a two-to-one match as funds for renovation began including the reconstruction of the steeple. One modern addition to the church was the installation of an elevator which allowed the fellowship space below to be utilized.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The three-year $2.1 million restoration project came to an end on October 25, 2023 as the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship displayed the completed project. The building had been purchased in 2004. In 2019 a photograph of the original building was discovered by John <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">E. </ins>Butler showing an original steeple which had long since disappeared. [[BUTLER, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">John </ins>E. and Alice|John E. and Alice Butler]] pledged a two-to-one match as funds for renovation began including the reconstruction of the steeple. One modern addition to the church was the installation of an elevator which allowed the fellowship space below to be utilized.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The newly restored building was nicknamed "The Gen of [[JACKSON PARK]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The newly restored building was nicknamed "The Gen of [[JACKSON PARK]].</div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=GERMAN_(GRACE)_METHODIST_EPISCOPAL_CHURCH&diff=182915&oldid=prev Randylyon at 20:32, 7 November 2024 2024-11-07T20:32:41Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:32, 7 November 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l10">Line 10:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 10:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2021 during a major restoration of the old building by [[UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP]], HeritageWorks, and [[GRONEN PROPERTIES/GRONEN RESTORATION]], a tin box was found underneath the cornerstone. According to documents found inside, the box was place there on June 14, 1885. The box contained several German publications, a newspaper, a journal called "Haus and Herd"(Home and Hearth). the broadsheet of the ''Dubuque Sunday Times'', and a letter signed by the church secretary, Fred Wirth. There was also a five-cent piece and a $5 Wisconsin Territories endorsed by the secretary. Wirth's letter noted that the construction of the church had cost $4,000 and that the church had gained $2,000 from the sale of the old church.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2021 during a major restoration of the old building by [[UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP]], HeritageWorks, and [[GRONEN PROPERTIES/GRONEN RESTORATION]], a tin box was found underneath the cornerstone. According to documents found inside, the box was place there on June 14, 1885. The box contained several German publications, a newspaper, a journal called "Haus and Herd"(Home and Hearth). the broadsheet of the ''Dubuque Sunday Times'', and a letter signed by the church secretary, Fred Wirth. There was also a five-cent piece and a $5 Wisconsin Territories endorsed by the secretary. Wirth's letter noted that the construction of the church had cost $4,000 and that the church had gained $2,000 from the sale of the old church.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The three-year $2.1 million restoration project came to an end on October 25, 2023 as the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship displayed the completed project. The building had been purchased in 2004. In 2019 a photograph of the original building was discovered by John Butler showing an original steeple which had long since disappeared. [[BUTLER, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">John </del>and Alice|John and Alice Butler]] pledged a two-to-one match as funds for renovation began including the reconstruction of the steeple. One modern addition to the church was the installation of an elevator which allowed the fellowship space below to be utilized.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The three-year $2.1 million restoration project came to an end on October 25, 2023 as the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship displayed the completed project. The building had been purchased in 2004. In 2019 a photograph of the original building was discovered by John Butler showing an original steeple which had long since disappeared. [[BUTLER, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">JohN E. </ins>and Alice|John <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">E. </ins>and Alice Butler]] pledged a two-to-one match as funds for renovation began including the reconstruction of the steeple. One modern addition to the church was the installation of an elevator which allowed the fellowship space below to be utilized.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The newly restored building was nicknamed "The Gen of [[JACKSON PARK]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The newly restored building was nicknamed "The Gen of [[JACKSON PARK]].</div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=GERMAN_(GRACE)_METHODIST_EPISCOPAL_CHURCH&diff=182914&oldid=prev Randylyon at 20:31, 7 November 2024 2024-11-07T20:31:58Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:31, 7 November 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l8">Line 8:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 8:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The loss of the distinctive German character of the congregation and the financial strains caused by the [[GREAT DEPRESSION]] led again to a decline in membership. On June 6, 1965, Grace Methodist Church officially became part of [[ST. LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH]]. The merger resulted in a congregation at St. Luke's of approximately 1,000. (1)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The loss of the distinctive German character of the congregation and the financial strains caused by the [[GREAT DEPRESSION]] led again to a decline in membership. On June 6, 1965, Grace Methodist Church officially became part of [[ST. LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH]]. The merger resulted in a congregation at St. Luke's of approximately 1,000. (1)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2021 during a major restoration of the old building by [[UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP]], HeritageWorks, and [[GRONEN PROPERTIES/GRONEN RESTORATION]], a tin box was found underneath the cornerstone. According to documents found inside, the box was place there on June 14, 1885. The box contained several German publications, a newspaper, a journal called "Haus and Herd"(Home and Hearth). the broadsheet of the ''Dubuque Sunday Times'', and a letter signed by the church secretary, Fred Wirth. There was also a five-cent piece and a $5 Wisconsin Territories endorsed by the secretary.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2021 during a major restoration of the old building by [[UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP]], HeritageWorks, and [[GRONEN PROPERTIES/GRONEN RESTORATION]], a tin box was found underneath the cornerstone. According to documents found inside, the box was place there on June 14, 1885. The box contained several German publications, a newspaper, a journal called "Haus and Herd"(Home and Hearth). the broadsheet of the ''Dubuque Sunday Times'', and a letter signed by the church secretary, Fred Wirth. There was also a five-cent piece and a $5 Wisconsin Territories endorsed by the secretary<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Wirth's letter noted that the construction of the church had cost $4,000 and that the church had gained $2,000 from the sale of the old church</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Wirth's letter noted that </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">construction </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">church </del>had <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cost $4</del>,<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">000 </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that </del>the church <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">had gained $2,000 from </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sale </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">old church</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The three-year $2.1 million restoration project came to an end on October 25, 2023 as </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Unitarian Universalist Fellowship displayed the completed project. The building had been purchased in 2004. In 2019 a photograph </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">original building was discovered by John Butler showing an original steeple which </ins>had <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">long since disappeared. [[BUTLER</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">John and Alice|John </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Alice Butler]] pledged a two-to-one match as funds for renovation began including the reconstruction of the steeple. One modern addition to </ins>the church <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">installation </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an elevator which allowed </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fellowship space below to be utilized.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The newly restored building was nicknamed "The Gen of [[JACKSON PARK]]</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>---</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>---</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l19">Line 19:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 21:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>2. London, Michelle, "Church's Time Capsule Yields Treasure," ''Telegraph Herald'', November 27, 2021, p. 1</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>2. London, Michelle, "Church's Time Capsule Yields Treasure," ''Telegraph Herald'', November 27, 2021, p. 1</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">3. London, Michelle, "'Gem of Jackson Park': Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Dubuque Debuts Renovated Space," ''Telegraph Herald'', October 26, 2023, p. 2A</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Church]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Church]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=GERMAN_(GRACE)_METHODIST_EPISCOPAL_CHURCH&diff=172096&oldid=prev Randylyon at 20:11, 28 November 2021 2021-11-28T20:11:25Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:11, 28 November 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l8">Line 8:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 8:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The loss of the distinctive German character of the congregation and the financial strains caused by the [[GREAT DEPRESSION]] led again to a decline in membership. On June 6, 1965, Grace Methodist Church officially became part of [[ST. LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH]]. The merger resulted in a congregation at St. Luke's of approximately 1,000. (1)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The loss of the distinctive German character of the congregation and the financial strains caused by the [[GREAT DEPRESSION]] led again to a decline in membership. On June 6, 1965, Grace Methodist Church officially became part of [[ST. LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH]]. The merger resulted in a congregation at St. Luke's of approximately 1,000. (1)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2021 during a major restoration of the old building by [[UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP]], HeritageWorks, and [[GRONEN PROPERTIES/GRONEN RESTORATION, a tin box was found underneath the cornerstone. According to documents found inside, the box was place there on June 14, 1885. The box contained several German publications, a newspaper, a journal called "Haus and Herd"(Home and Hearth). the broadsheet of the ''Dubuque Sunday Times'', and a letter signed by the church secretary, Fred Wirth. There was also a five-cent piece and a $5 Wisconsin Territories endorsed by the secretary.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2021 during a major restoration of the old building by [[UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP]], HeritageWorks, and [[GRONEN PROPERTIES/GRONEN RESTORATION<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>, a tin box was found underneath the cornerstone. According to documents found inside, the box was place there on June 14, 1885. The box contained several German publications, a newspaper, a journal called "Haus and Herd"(Home and Hearth). the broadsheet of the ''Dubuque Sunday Times'', and a letter signed by the church secretary, Fred Wirth. There was also a five-cent piece and a $5 Wisconsin Territories endorsed by the secretary.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wirth's letter noted that the construction of the church had cost $4,000 and that the church had gained $2,000 from the sale of the old church.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wirth's letter noted that the construction of the church had cost $4,000 and that the church had gained $2,000 from the sale of the old church.</div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=GERMAN_(GRACE)_METHODIST_EPISCOPAL_CHURCH&diff=172095&oldid=prev Randylyon at 20:10, 28 November 2021 2021-11-28T20:10:59Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:10, 28 November 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6">Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With the outbreak of [[WORLD WAR I]], Governor William Lloyd Harding issued the Babel Proclamation in 1918. This act outlawed the use of foreign languages in public, over the telephone, in school, and in religious services. The name of the church was formally changed to Grace Methodist Episcopal Church and later Grace Methodist Church. The "Frauen Verien" became the Ladies' Aid Society. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With the outbreak of [[WORLD WAR I]], Governor William Lloyd Harding issued the Babel Proclamation in 1918. This act outlawed the use of foreign languages in public, over the telephone, in school, and in religious services. The name of the church was formally changed to Grace Methodist Episcopal Church and later Grace Methodist Church. The "Frauen Verien" became the Ladies' Aid Society. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The loss of the distinctive German character of the congregation and the financial strains caused by the [[GREAT DEPRESSION]] led again to a decline in membership. On June 6, 1965, Grace Methodist Church officially became part of [[ST. LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH]]. The merger resulted in a congregation at St. Luke's of approximately 1,000. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The loss of the distinctive German character of the congregation and the financial strains caused by the [[GREAT DEPRESSION]] led again to a decline in membership. On June 6, 1965, Grace Methodist Church officially became part of [[ST. LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH]]. The merger resulted in a congregation at St. Luke's of approximately 1,000<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. (1)</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In 2021 during a major restoration of the old building by [[UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP]], HeritageWorks, and [[GRONEN PROPERTIES/GRONEN RESTORATION, a tin box was found underneath the cornerstone. According to documents found inside, the box was place there on June 14, 1885. The box contained several German publications, a newspaper, a journal called "Haus and Herd"(Home and Hearth). the broadsheet of the ''Dubuque Sunday Times'', and a letter signed by the church secretary, Fred Wirth. There was also a five-cent piece and a $5 Wisconsin Territories endorsed by the secretary.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Wirth's letter noted that the construction of the church had cost $4,000 and that the church had gained $2,000 from the sale of the old church</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>---</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>---</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l12">Line 12:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 16:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Source:</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Source:</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"2 Methodist Churches Here to Merge Sunday," ''Telegraph-Herald'', June 6, 1965, p. 1</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1. </ins>"2 Methodist Churches Here to Merge Sunday," ''Telegraph-Herald'', June 6, 1965<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, p. 1</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2. London, Michelle, "Church's Time Capsule Yields Treasure," ''Telegraph Herald'', November 27, 2021</ins>, p. 1</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Church]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Church]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=GERMAN_(GRACE)_METHODIST_EPISCOPAL_CHURCH&diff=169418&oldid=prev Randylyon at 18:45, 3 August 2021 2021-08-03T18:45:16Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:45, 3 August 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:gmec.png|left|thumb|250px|Painting the steeple. C. 1915 Loemker, Herman J., 1868-1937, “[Painting the steeple of the German Methodist Episcopal Church, Dubuque, Iowa],” Loras College Digital Collections, accessed December 27, 2015, https://digitalcollections.loras.edu/items/show/316.]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:gmec.png|left|thumb|250px|Painting the steeple. C. 1915 Loemker, Herman J., 1868-1937, “[Painting the steeple of the German Methodist Episcopal Church, Dubuque, Iowa],” Loras College Digital Collections, accessed December 27, 2015, https://digitalcollections.loras.edu/items/show/316.]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:GRACE.jpg|left|thumb|350px|]]German (Grace) Methodist Episcopal Church. Formally organized in 1843, German (Grace) Methodist Church was created by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dubuque residents </del>who felt the need to worship in their own language while preserving their ethnic heritage. The membership erected their first church at 11th and Jackson [[STREETS]]. With an increase in membership, a larger church was built on the same location in 1854. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:GRACE.jpg|left|thumb|350px|]]German (Grace) Methodist Episcopal Church. Formally organized in 1843, German (Grace) Methodist Church was created by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">eight persons from St. Louis </ins>who felt the need to worship in their own language while preserving their ethnic heritage. The membership erected their first church at 11th and Jackson [[STREETS]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. The name became Grace Methodist Church in 1846 following the merger of the of the Methodist Episcopal, Protestant, and Episcopal South churches</ins>. With an increase in membership, a larger church was built on the same location in 1854. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the next twenty years, membership in the church declined as people moved west or joined the larger English-speaking Methodist churches in Dubuque. Despite declining membership, a new church was built in 1885 at the corner of 17th and Iowa streets. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the next twenty years, membership in the church declined as people moved west or joined the larger English-speaking Methodist churches in Dubuque. Despite declining membership, a new church was built in 1885 at the corner of 17th and Iowa streets. </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6">Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With the outbreak of [[WORLD WAR I]], Governor William Lloyd Harding issued the Babel Proclamation in 1918. This act outlawed the use of foreign languages in public, over the telephone, in school, and in religious services. The name of the church was formally changed to Grace Methodist Episcopal Church and later Grace Methodist Church. The "Frauen Verien" became the Ladies' Aid Society. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With the outbreak of [[WORLD WAR I]], Governor William Lloyd Harding issued the Babel Proclamation in 1918. This act outlawed the use of foreign languages in public, over the telephone, in school, and in religious services. The name of the church was formally changed to Grace Methodist Episcopal Church and later Grace Methodist Church. The "Frauen Verien" became the Ladies' Aid Society. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The loss of the distinctive German character of the congregation and the financial strains caused by the [[GREAT DEPRESSION]] led again to a decline in membership. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In July </del>1965, Grace Methodist Church officially became part of [[ST. LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The loss of the distinctive German character of the congregation and the financial strains caused by the [[GREAT DEPRESSION]] led again to a decline in membership. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">On June 6, </ins>1965, Grace Methodist Church officially became part of [[ST. LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH]]. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The merger resulted in a congregation at St. Luke's of approximately 1,000. </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">---</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Source:</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"2 Methodist Churches Here to Merge Sunday," ''Telegraph-Herald'', June 6, 1965, p. 1</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Church]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Church]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=GERMAN_(GRACE)_METHODIST_EPISCOPAL_CHURCH&diff=155390&oldid=prev Randylyon at 22:54, 17 June 2019 2019-06-17T22:54:47Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:54, 17 June 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6">Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With the outbreak of [[WORLD WAR I]], Governor William Lloyd Harding issued the Babel Proclamation in 1918. This act outlawed the use of foreign languages in public, over the telephone, in school, and in religious services. The name of the church was formally changed to Grace Methodist Episcopal Church and later Grace Methodist Church. The "Frauen Verien" became the Ladies' Aid Society. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With the outbreak of [[WORLD WAR I]], Governor William Lloyd Harding issued the Babel Proclamation in 1918. This act outlawed the use of foreign languages in public, over the telephone, in school, and in religious services. The name of the church was formally changed to Grace Methodist Episcopal Church and later Grace Methodist Church. The "Frauen Verien" became the Ladies' Aid Society. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The loss of the distinctive German character of the congregation and the financial strains caused by the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Great Depression </del>led again to a decline in membership. In July 1965, Grace Methodist Church officially became part of [[ST. LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The loss of the distinctive German character of the congregation and the financial strains caused by the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[GREAT DEPRESSION]] </ins>led again to a decline in membership. In July 1965, Grace Methodist Church officially became part of [[ST. LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH]].</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Church]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Church]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=GERMAN_(GRACE)_METHODIST_EPISCOPAL_CHURCH&diff=128726&oldid=prev Randylyon at 04:40, 28 December 2015 2015-12-28T04:40:39Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 04:40, 28 December 2015</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">GRACE</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">jpg</del>|left|thumb|250px|Painting the steeple. C. 1915 Loemker, Herman J., 1868-1937, “[Painting the steeple of the German Methodist Episcopal Church, Dubuque, Iowa],” Loras College Digital Collections, accessed December 27, 2015, https://digitalcollections.loras.edu/items/show/316.]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gmec</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">png</ins>|left|thumb|250px|Painting the steeple. C. 1915 Loemker, Herman J., 1868-1937, “[Painting the steeple of the German Methodist Episcopal Church, Dubuque, Iowa],” Loras College Digital Collections, accessed December 27, 2015, https://digitalcollections.loras.edu/items/show/316.]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">GMEC</del>.jpg|left|thumb|350px|]]German (Grace) Methodist Episcopal Church. Formally organized in 1843, German (Grace) Methodist Church was created by Dubuque residents who felt the need to worship in their own language while preserving their ethnic heritage. The membership erected their first church at 11th and Jackson [[STREETS]]. With an increase in membership, a larger church was built on the same location in 1854. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">GRACE</ins>.jpg|left|thumb|350px|]]German (Grace) Methodist Episcopal Church. Formally organized in 1843, German (Grace) Methodist Church was created by Dubuque residents who felt the need to worship in their own language while preserving their ethnic heritage. The membership erected their first church at 11th and Jackson [[STREETS]]. With an increase in membership, a larger church was built on the same location in 1854. </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the next twenty years, membership in the church declined as people moved west or joined the larger English-speaking Methodist churches in Dubuque. Despite declining membership, a new church was built in 1885 at the corner of 17th and Iowa streets. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the next twenty years, membership in the church declined as people moved west or joined the larger English-speaking Methodist churches in Dubuque. Despite declining membership, a new church was built in 1885 at the corner of 17th and Iowa streets. </div></td></tr> </table>

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