Valley Grove

Nerstrand, United States

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗

Valley Grove is a historic Lutheran church complex in Wheeling Township, Minnesota, consisting of two nineteenth-century buildings arranged on a hilltop cemetery. The original structure, built in 1862 from stone by a rural Norwegian immigrant community in the Greek Revival style, was later converted into a guild hall when the growing congregation constructed a larger wooden replacement in 1894. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, the property was recognized for its architectural and religious significance as a rare surviving example of two successive phases of rural ecclesiastical design, and for its importance to the dispersed Scandinavian settlement of eastern Rice County.