...Brainerd. It closed during the panic of 1873. It reopened as a theater, and was destroyed by fire in 1878. Dr. S.W. Thayer was medical director of the N.P. Hospital. He and C.P. Thayer were early doctors. The N.P. Hospital was...

...Church's history began long before then. The church has the oldest worshipping congregation in Brainerd. In 1870, Dr. S.W. Thayer, a physician from Burlington, Vermont, who The first service held in the old St. Paul's Episcopal Church was...