Organized in July 1908, this congregation held its initial services in the Armory Hall of the National Guard Armory on Kenwood Parkway. The following spring they moved to the Minneapolis School of Music and Dramatic Art located at 8th and Mary Place. They began work on a new red brick building with...
Jewish settlers began arriving in Minneapolis in the early 1870s. In 1876 they established the Montefiore Burial Association and purchased land on 42nd Street and 3rd Avenue South for a cemetery that is still in use. Two years later many of the same settlers established a Jewish congregation...
This congregation was organized by Mrs. Emma Thompson and her daughter, Miss Abigail Dyer Thompson, both of whom trained with Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy. Mrs. Thompson had trained in the Christian Science Metaphysical College in Boston, which was subsequently closed in 1889. In 1886...
This school was established in 1879. IN 1881 it occupied a building at 44 Sixth Street, and it moved in 1884 to 1020 Harmon Place, where it remained until 1890.
Source: Atwater, A History of the City of Minneapolis (pp. 165-166)
This Christian Church, Disciples of Christ was established on February 4, 1877, in the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Ankeny on 5th Street near Hennepin Avenue (later the site of the General Electric building). Later in the month, the congregation began to rent the Swedenborgian Church at 5th Avenue...
This congregation was organized on April 28, 1857, with the first meeting held in the Old Court House and subsequent meetings in the Woodman's Hall at Washington and 2nd Avenue (which later became the St. James Hotel) and another nearby building. They erected a church on Nicollet at 4th Street...
A daughter church of Plymouth Congregational, the Park Avenue congregation was founded in 1866 when the Plymouth congregation erected a church on 4th and Vine Streets, naming it Plymouth Chapel. In 1867, the congregation changed its name to the Vine Street Church. In 1871, the congregation began to...
Established on December 6, 1869, this congregation, affiliated with the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, first met in the home of N. C. Aamodt on 11th Avenue South between Washington Avenue and Second Street. It soon began holding services in Trinity Lutheran Church, located at 4th Street and...
A daughter of Centenary M.E. Church, this congregation was originally organized in 1870 as the Seventh Street Church and was the second M.E. church organized west of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. They met in a building at 7th Street and 12th Avenue South, which they sold in 1882 to the...