Emmanuel Cohen Center, Wells-Memorial Settlement House, 6th and Lyndale, North
1924: Founded to replace the Talmud Torah’s [see above] Social Services.
Located in a house at 909 Elwood Avenue and called the Emmanuel Cohen Memorial Home. The institution was intended to provide the Jewish...
Goldy Ipsum. There are faint tracks across this vast campus, leading to little clandestine holes where busy Gophers play. Success is an element in which striving is attainable, but only with big teeth, endlessly gnawing at the challenge around every corner. For here, at this place, failure has no...
This congregation was established in 1875 by Norwegian immigrants and incorporated in 1883; it was affiliated with the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. The congregation initially met in Trinity Lutheran Church, 4th St. and 9th Avenue S. However, because of the distance from congregants’...
This congregation was organized in 1909, when it met in the Scandia Club at 1409 Glenwood Avenue, North. In 1910, they purchased the Methodist church at Glenwood and Irving Avenue, North. They stayed there until 1929 when they erected a new church at 1800 Glenwood Avenue, North. The congregation...
Reflecting the Protestant character of many of the first inhabitants of the tony Oak Lake addiiton was Westminster Presbyterian Church’s establishment in 1873 of a Sunday School and chapel on land donated by the Gale’s located at Fourth Avenue North and Nineteenth Street. Nine years later, the...
The Finnish newspaper Uusi Kotimaa estimated there were around two hundred Finns living in Minneapolis in 1881. They were attracted by the promise of wages of $1.75 a day to work in the city’s sawmills and brickyards (History of the Finns in Minnesota, p. 119). The first Finnish activity in...
The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church (also known as the Morgan Avenue Lutheran Church) was organized in 1914 and was an affiliate of the Soumi synod of the Finnish Lutheran Church. It held meetings in members’ homes until 1928 when a stone church was built at 240 Morgan Avenue North. This...