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In July 2002, not long after reshingling the
roof and replacing windows knocked out by a
hailstorm, church caretakers faced an even bigger
challenge when lightning struck the steeple and
fire toppled the bell tower.
"They had used up all their resources and didn't
have any insurance," Bentley recalls. "Pieces were
lying over the churchyard and it didn't look like they
could recover from something like that."
But believers like Ody Berg, 82, who has
watched over the church since services ended in
1968, and Shirley McEvers, whose parents and
grandparents are buried in the churchyard, didn't
hesitate to donate money and manpower.
“We decided that it was our turn now,” says
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McEvers, secretary-treasurer of the Tonset Luther
an Church Historical Society. “Our grandparents
and parents had done their part." Their Swedish
and Norwegian ancestors had built the church on
the hill in 1916, naming it after Tynset, Norway.
Bentley adds, “People couldn’t imagine driv
ing home and not seeing that steeple.”
In 2005, another beloved North Dakota land
mark, St. Catherine’s of Lomice in Walsh County
(pop. 12,389), was rescued by about two dozen
worshippers. Immigrants from Czechoslovakia
built the Catholic church in 1934, naming it
"Lomice" after a town in their homeland.
"Can you imagine—that was all field rock
hauled in by horses,” says Daniel Kouba, 73,
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admiring the solid walls of
brown and red stones dug from
nearby fields.
"When the Catholic dio
cese recommended that this
church be bulldozed, I was
so hurt. Our forefathers
would have turned over in
their graves,” says Kouba,
who helped form Preservation
Lomice and secure the church’s
listing on the National Regis
ter of Historic Places.
Today, volunteers maintain
the landmarks original shingle
roof and mow around their
ancestors' gravestones in the hill
side cemetery.
Secular spaces
Not every restored North
Dakota prairie church is filled
with pews and a pulpit. Many
church buildings have been
adapted for uses other than wor
ship services.
In Stanley (pop. 1,279), a
1928 brick Tudor-style Pres
byterian church has been con
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Parishioners gather
at St. Catherine’s of
Lomice, a Catholic
church saved from
demolition in 2005.
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Daniel Kouba helped secure a
landmark listing for the church.
for Life Enrichment for art and
musical events, and in nearby
Plaza (pop. 167), grant money
was used to repair the founda
tion, shingle and paint an 1876
church that today houses the
Plaza Community Museum.
Across the state in Park
River (pop. 1,535), Jason and
Tara Lindell are transforming
a 1920 brick Greco-Roman
style church into a home with
22-foot ceilings, stained-glass
windows, and bedrooms in
the choir loft. Jason uses the
basement for his stained glass
studio.
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