Ca 1880s: Rev. Rueben A. Torrey, pastor of the Open Door Congregational Church, organized Immanuel Sunday School Mission.
1900-1914: Mission, renamed Drummond Hall, was supported by Plymouth Congregational Church and Trinity Baptist Church. Closed as a result of Slavic immigrants [Eastern Catholic & Orthodox] moving into the neighborhood. Decision made to establish a “nonsectarian and nonpartisan Neighborhood house” for newly arriving Eastern European immigrants.
1915: Drummond Hall at 1429 2nd St. NE was remodeled and rededicated as North East Neighborhood House.
1919: Moved into a new building at 1929 2nd St. NE.
1963: Merged with Margaret Barry House; now known as East Side Neighborhood Service.
Bibliography: Mpls. Tribune, 12/15/1918, “New Neighborhood House Planned in Northeast;” Mpls. Tribune, 5/18/1927, “Settlement House Addition Planned;” Minneapolis Journal, “City Settlement Building Rivals 5 Largest in the U.S.; Winifred Wandersee Bolin, “Heating up the Melting Pot,” Minnesota History, Summer, 1976, 58-69.