Title: MA - Roxbury - Walnut Avenue, 1880-1948

Administrative/Biographical History
Began in 1880 as the Swedish Mission, becoming part of the Eastern Swedish Conference as the Boston Swedish Church. Located at Ferdinand and Isabella Street from 1889 until 1913, when it purchased the building of the Walnut Park church and relocated to Walnut Avenue, Roxbury, as the First Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church. Became part of the New England Conference in 1942 and changed its name to Walnut Avenue Methodist Church. Merged with [[St. Paul's Methodist Church]] in 1948. Early records are in Swedish. Author: Uchenna Joan Awa