I'm curious if anyone might now where to find some photos or illustrations of this church which still stands at Wabansia and Rockwell. 1657 n. rockwell.

Thanks!
Brian



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The ECLA Archives website says this (no photos on the site though):

The congregation's original building was located at North Rockwell and Wabansia Ave. It was enlarged and remodeled in 1908-09. By the late 1930s and 1940s, the congregation planned to relocate to a new, larger facility. After being approached by Our Savior's United Lutheran Church, which needed to relocate, but could not afford the task on their own, the two congregations merged in 1947 to become Atonement Lutheran Church. A new building was constructed on the northwest corner of North and Rutherford Avenues. Ebenezer's former building was sold to the Albanian Orthodox Church St. Nicholas.

Brian,

Is this the church now that is for sale? It would be on the southeast cornor of the block. I see a picture of a church for sale at that address.

Ralph

The church was sold recently. A gentleman is currently gut rehabbing it. I think it is going to be a spectacular home once complete. That ECLA info was all that I was able to find too.

Thanks,
Brian

The picture I saw of the church was the one I googgled from the map view. It shows the north side and the front of the church. It is from 2007. If I see any others, I will let you know.

Ralph



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Thanks Ralph, Appreciate it!

I just thought of it.

Check with realitor! They should have pictures inside and out. Everyone I know today takes takes a lot pictures so they can show the property on line.

Ralph

I'm looking for more old photos. They did have some good photos of it in it's current state. I'd love to see some from way back when.

Here's some photos of its current state, [www.trulia.com]

[www.urbanrealestate.com]

Was there ever anything that amounted to a "Danish neighborhood" in the city?

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> Was there ever anything that amounted to a "Danish
> neighborhood" in the city?

From the Encyclopedia of Chicago
[encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org]

The written Danish language was the same as Norwegian, and Swedes could understand it as well, so Danes often lived in mixed Scandinavian communities and intermarried with Norwegians and Swedes. The earliest Danish community in Chicago was around Randolph and LaSalle Streets in the 1860s. Around 1870, some Danes established a South Side enclave around 37th and State Streets that persisted until the 1920s, but the main axis of Danish and Norwegian settlement crossed the Chicago River and moved northwest along Milwaukee Avenue during the 1870s. By 1880, two-thirds of the city's 6,000 Danes lived in Milwaukee Avenue neighborhoods. A new, heavily Norwegian and Danish neighborhood also began to take shape east of Humboldt Park. By 1910, there were 18,500 first- and second-generation Danes in the city. Scandinavians had abandoned Milwaukee Avenue to Italian and East European immigrants, and North Avenue was the new Danish-Norwegian commercial center. Humboldt Park remained a major Scandinavian community for a couple of decades, but Danes began to disperse around 1920 to western and northern suburbs