<div><strong><a href="https://www.historicgruechurch.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">1891 Grue | Buxton in Bloom formerly Historic Grue Church is a rural cultural center. Visit our website </a></strong><a href="https://www.historicgruechurch.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.HistoricGrueChurch.</a>org<strong> or <a href="https://www.1891grue.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.1891Grue.org</a> for more information. </strong>
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<div><strong>Our mission is to preserve and transform the North Dakota pioneer prairie church (and final resting place of world-famous economist, Mancur Olson Jr.) as a rural cultural and social center celebrating arts, history and the spirit. Any donation, even twenty or thirty dollars and beyond, is valuable. If you don't donate, it would be great if you could share the fundraiser to help spread the word.</strong>
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<div><strong>1891 Grue or formerly called Historic Grue Church North Dakota's </strong>fundraising goal is to adapt and use the Norwegian Grue Evangelical Lutheran Church structure in Traill County, North Dakota. It has operated as an independent center celebrating the community's heritage and culture while retaining its sacred space architecture since 2020.
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<div><strong>Buxton in Bloom</strong> non-profit cultivates our past and secures our future through historic preservation.
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<div><strong>Our plan is to upgrade the electrical and install new indoor bathrooms in early 2027. </strong>
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<div>We have completed 3 phases of our architectural plan and need donations for the foyer reconstruction, pressed metal refinishing, artist in residency suite with bathroom, reading room adaptation, and 2 RV pads for food trucks and event auxiliary needs. Recent donations have supported a new roof in 2022 and a 2023 exterior paint job and in 2024 -25 we upgraded wiring, security, internet, and heating. In 2026 our historic stained glass window was evaluated through a grant from AIAS Freedom by Design Community Service through NDSU and we obtained vintage. pendant lights and a historical stained glass window for the study room.
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<div>Friends and families of the church descendants, community members, preservationists and advocates for rural church restorations and adaptations, historians, genealogists, Norwegian-Americans, friends from Grue Church in Norway, organizations and interested donors are invited to contribute. Funding from North Dakota Council on the Arts, American Scandinavian Foundation, Sacred Places, and North Dakota State Historical Society have helped us with cultural programming and structural work. We have partnered with area organizations and have received sponsorship from regional businesses. We are actively seeking an array of funding sources.
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<div>Historic Grue Church (formed in 2020) is a subsidiary of Buxton in Bloom non-profit (established 2008). It is separate from Grue Church Cemetery Committee, with no co-mingling of funds with either area.
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<div>1891 Grue: Historic Grue Church is its own entity. Please join us in saving and transforming this beautiful structure.
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<div><strong>Contributions to "Buxton in Bloom/Historic Grue Church" are tax deductible </strong>and can be made directly on this site or be mailed directly to <strong>1891 Grue </strong>| Buxton in Bloom/Historic Grue Church at the following address:
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<div>​Buxton in Bloom/Historic Grue Church
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<div>423 Broadway (PO Box 68)
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<div>Buxton ND 58218
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<div>https://<a href="https://www.gruehistoricchurch.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.HistoricGrueChurch.org</a>
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<div>​501(c)(3) EIN 26-0108241
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<div><strong>History of Grue Church</strong>
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<div>On March 17, 1879, sixty-three people met at the home of Knut Rauk to form the Norwegian Grue Evangelical Lutheran Congregation. For the next twelve years, they met in various private homes and schools until December 19, 1891, when Jakob Evanson Fevold sold a portion a quarter of a section in Stavanger Township to the congregation. The building was built by Jorgen Faleide and opened in 1891. More information coming...........
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<div>Photograph by Sharon Watson
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1891 Grue: Historic Grue Church Cultural Center North Dakota

1891 Grue: Historic Grue Church Cultural Center North Dakota

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