09/06/2026
The Church display is REOPENED!!!
After a few days being closed for our escape room, the church is reopened!
The Highland Lutheran Church was founded in 1913, a few years later, a schoolhouse was purchased from the Horse Creek Township and brought to a two acre lot donated by Even Kristianson. (This building is that school house!) It served as a church alternating between Norwegian and English sermons from 1918 to 1949 when Rev. O.R. Svore passed away and the church was discontinued.
HOWEVER, in 1951 ten families came together to reorganize the Highland Lutheran Church with Pastor Wm. Humlie in Arnegard North Dakota. He served until Pastor Harold Hofstad took over until 1955. In 1951 the Cross family donated a new location by Highway 68 for the church to be moved there, at which point Carl Pierson and Lars Haugan remodeled the church while Ole and Matt Iverson got a steeple and cross for the front of the church. In 1984 an addition was added, then the interior was remodeled again in 1993. In 2002 the church was permanently disbanded, most of the congregation joining the Trinity Lutheran Church in Alexander. The church now resides at the museum and is open every day but Wednesdays until October 1st with old hymns playing inside as a reminder to how the church likely sounded back when a congregation still sang in its pews.
