When plans for the Church of the Bread of Life were accepted in August 1879, the Episcopal congregation’s building committee contracted to spend $2,500 to build a place of worship. The funds, raised by benefit suppers and entertainments, proved insufficient, and the interior walls were unfinished and bare when consecration ceremonies were held on June 1 1880, by Bishop Clarkson of Omaha and Reverend Dr. Batterson of Philadelphia. Five years later the omission was corrected and the Bismarck Weekly Tribune declared that, “it was, indeed, a transformation which was presented to the admiring gaze if the congregation.”
First Located at Avenue A and Mandan Street, the church, renamed St. George’s Episcopal, was removed to Third and Rosser about 1900. There, a small parish house was built and later joined to the rear of the church. When the new St. George’s Episcopal Church at Ave B and Fourth Street was completed, the former property was sold and later acquired for a building site by the Presbyterian Church. The old structure was donated to the state and moved to Camp Hancock in 1965. It has since been restored to its post-1885 appearance. Following restoration, the congregation of St. George’s donated a number of original furnishings which are now in the building."
