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Sunday, September 14, 2008—Sunday, January 4, 2009 ( Free Exhibition)

Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future (at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts) - This exhibition is part of a comprehensive project that explores the work of one of the most prolific, unorthodox, and controversial modern masters of 20th-century architecture and design. For more information, click here.

Previous Events

  • Traveling Exhibition: Structures of Our Time: 31 Buildings that Changed Modern Life

  • April 2007 - Tour for 14 of the most celebrated design thinkers from the United States and Europe presenting at the U of M International Design Conference; along with Janet Abrams, Director of the U of M Design Institute; Steven Ostrow, Chair of the U of M Dept. of Art history and Tom Fisher, Dean of the U of M College of Design.


  • June 2007 - Christ Church Lutheran Docent training led by Rolf Anderson, architectural historian.


  • June 2007 -  Significant Churches Bus Tour sponsored by the Friends of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA)


  • July 12 - 15th 2007 - Finnish Visitors Tours in conjunction with the international traveling exhibit at the MIA 'A Mirror of Nature: Nordic Landscape Painting 1840-1910'
  • October 2-7th 2007 - National Preservation Conference in St. Paul
    • October 2nd 2007, 1:30 - 5:00 PM - Field Session 1
      National Trust Conference Bus Tour.

    • October 4th 2007, 8:15 AM - 12:00 noon - Field Session 2
      National Trust Conference Bus Tour.

    • October 5th 2007, 7:00PM - Affinity Event at Christ Church Lutheran.

November 27, 2007 - Christ Church Lutheran hosted the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historian’s annual Works in Progress program at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, November 27th.  The program, open to the public, provided an opportunity for writers and researchers to present recent scholarly findings on regional architectural history topics.

November’s agenda included a presentation by Kristin Anderson on Twin Cities Baseball Parks of the nineteenth century; an exploration of immigrant Catholic churches in Stearns County, Minnesota by Bob and John Roscoe; and insights into the career of Marion Alice Parker, a successful and rare “lady architect” of the early twentieth century who worked in the Prairie school aspects of progressive design, presented by Nicole Watson. For more information, go to www.mnsah.org.

25th Anniversary of Pastor Carlson's Ordination

December 9, 2007 - Christ Church Lutheran celebrated Pastor Kristine Carlson's 25th Anniversary of Ordination. Advent worship was at 9:30 am followed by an 11:00 am reception and program.

Pastor Carlson