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  [First Church Building]
English Lutheran held its first service on Trinity Sunday, June 15, 1898, in a room of Lienlokken Hall above the Tausche Hardware Company on Fourth Street. The building now houses Fayze's Restaurant. The church was organized the same year with seven charter members. Today, the congregation has more than 1,400 baptized members.

The congregation worshipped at three buildings, including the original building at West Avenue and Ferry Street, which was built in 1901 and was destroyed by fire in 1920. The second church, at 16th and Cass Streets, served the congregation from 1925 to 1991. The congregation moved into its present church building in 1992 after spending the interim construction period in the adjoining Stoffel Hall.

Key events in the life of the congregation include the election of [Stefan] Guttormsson in 1987 as the first bishop of the La Crosse Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Other significant events were the fire in 1920 and the death of the Rev. Harold Stoffel and his wife in an auto accident in 1961. Stoffel was pastor from 1936 to 1961.

(excerpts from La Crosse Tribune article, June 6, 1998)


  
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