The story of Farwell Norwegian Lutheran Church begins in 1891, when a small group of local families came together to organize the congregation. The following April, in 1892, that congregation purchased a vacant schoolhouse south of town for $75 and moved it into Farwell to serve as their first home. By 1907, the congregation was ready to build something more permanent. A building committee  (John S. Irgens, A.S. Irgens, Jacob Jacobson, Lars Ormseth, L. Larson, William Max, O.H. Belgum, and Pastor B.A. Benson) oversaw the construction of the church still standing today at the corner of Bertrand and North Streets. The new building was dedicated on November 3, 1907, and served the congregation for the better part of a century, until 1991.

In 2017, exactly 110 years after that first dedication,  the church was lovingly restored by a great-grandson of John and Emma Irgens, carrying the family's legacy forward with the hope that this historic space could be enjoyed for generations to come.