Evangelist’s Home Opens as Museum
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WINONA LAKE, Ind. — Sixty-five years after the death of athlete-turned-evangelist Billy Sunday, his bungalow, restored for $400,000, has opened as the Billy Sunday Home Museum.
The museum and visitors center were funded mostly by state grants.
Sunday, who preached to an estimated 100 million people, built a 50,000-square-foot tabernacle near his tiny home and hosted annual Bible conferences.
But after World War I, Winona Lake audiences slimmed and the town’s central district deteriorated. The area has been reborn through the $15-million Village at Winona commercial development.
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