St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, built in 1911-12. According to the Bemidji Pioneer in a front page article in 1911: “Bemidji is to have a new Episcopal church to cost between $3,000 and $4,000 completed and ready for occupancy by November 1 next, according to plans announced by Archdeacon H. F. Parshall, while in Bemidji yesterday. Plans for the new edifice have been completed and the contractor will begin work in the near future. The structure is to be built on Beltrami avenue at Tenth street, where the foundation has been in for several months. “I earnestly believe that we will have our new Bemidji church nearly completed by the first of November,” said the archdeacon. “Experts have examined the foundation which was laid some time ago, and announce that it is in fine condition.” (Bemidji Daily Pioneer, Aug 12, 1911)
The church was finished and used for the first time in August 1912.
” Sunday morning, the entire structure of the Episcopal church will be used for public worship for the first time. While Bemidji is not a churchless city, yet the completion of a new structure, especially one as beautiful as the one to be opened tomorrow, is material evidence of the religious life that is sometimes not always evident on ^ the surface. To build a church, it is necessary for every member of the congregation to put his shoulder to the wheel. The Episcopalians and their leaders, Archdeacon Parshall and Reverend Harris, are to be congratulated, not only for making the effort but on the results obtained. (Bemidji Daily Pioneer, Aug 17, 1912)”