1920: White social workers and philanthropists felt the need for a recreational and housing facility for young black women. However, the Women’s Cooperative Alliance, a local civic-minded women’s organization decided based on a survey they took that a recreational facility for all African Americans...
In 1888, a group of men who came from the Lithuanian section of the Pale of Settlement established a congregation named O’Hel Jacob (Tent of Jacob), the third Jewish congregation established in Minneapolis (Sha’ari Tob and Adath Jeshurun preceded it). Worship services and meetings were held...
Minneapolis’ North Side encompasses a large area and is home to many distinct neighborhoods ranging from Bryn Mawr on the south to Camden north of Lowry Avenue, and from the commercial and industrial area along the banks of the Mississippi River on the east, once home to the upscale Oak Lake...
Anshei Russia (Men of Russia) was formed sometime between 1890 and 1901; the dates vary in the literature. The congregation later changed its name to Mikro Kodesh (Holy Assembly) claiming it did not want to memorialize a country that mistreated its Jewish people. The congregation erected a lovely...
The hospital was founded by Martha George Rogers Ripley, a pioneer doctor and social reformer, who was born in Lowell, VT in 1843. The family later moved to Iowa where Martha met and married William Warren Ripley. The couple moved to Massachusetts where she became active in the Women’s Suffrage...
Originally named Ohel [tent of] Jacob, the Kenesseth Israel Congregation was organized in 1888 by Orthodox Jews from Lithuania. The group initially met upstairs of a member's store at 605 2nd Ave. N. They later rented Turner Hall at Washington and 5th Ave. N.
1891: Ohel Jacob Dissolved and the...
Westminster Presbyterian Church was also part of the American Home Missionary Society’s effort to reach out to recently arrived immigrants. Besides establishing the Fifth Presbyterian Church for its members who had moved into the Oak Lake Addition, Westminster also established Hope Chapel in 1882...
Homewood Presbyterian Church established in 1909 was organized under the auspices of Fifth Presbyterian Church to serve the needs of its members who were abandoning the Near North Side and in particular the upscale Oak Lake Addition because of changes occurring there, as well as first and second...