St. John's Church Payette, Idaho
National Register of Historic Places Data
St. John's Church has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 13000353
- Date Listed
- June 5, 2013
- Name
- St. John's Church
- Other Names
- German Evangelical Lutheran Church; St. John's United Church of Christ
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- 350 N. 4th St.
- City/Town
- Payette
- County
- Payette
- State
- Idaho
- Category
- building
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- EUROPEAN
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
St. John's Church in Payette Idaho is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A, at the local level, for its significance in the area of Ethnic Heritage/European - specifically German heritage in western Idaho. German investors were some of the early settlers of Payette, bring their culture and religion with them. As they settled and shaped their new surroundings, the German population of Payette continued to hold to their roots, founding St. John's Church and conducting religious services there in German for many years. The Church continues into modern times as St. John 's United Church of Christ, with many descendents of the original founders remaining as members, and still very much identifying with their German roots.
