Friends, Society of Minneapolis

 

The first Friends (Quaker) meetings were held in Minneapolis in 1855 in the home of Joseph Canney. in 1860, the congregation erected a wooden framed meetinghouse at 8th Street and Hennepin Ave. with the establishment of the congregation on June 15, 1863.  In 1883, the congregation established a mission in a chapel they built at 10th Avenue and 24th Street. In 1886,  the congregation, according to Atwater's History of Minneapolis spun off a new group that moved the chapel building Stevens Avenue between 29th and Lake Street. 

 

Sources
  • WPA Report, Mrs Grayce Wallace, 1936. Atwater, Isaac. History of the City of Minneapolis. Minneapolis: Munsell, 1893.  
Category: Church     Neighborhood: Downtown Minneapolis