Hospital
Maternity Hospital (later, Ripley Memorial Hospital), Minneapolis
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...
Bethany Home, Minneapolis
Organized in 1876 and located in a rented house on 6th Street, SE, this home for unwed mothers was incorporated as Bethany Home in 1879. In 1885 it moved to a building erected by T. B. Walker on 17th Street. Later the home moved to 3719 Bryant Ave., South. Bethany Home was renamed Harriet Walker...
Asbury Methodist Hospital and Rebecca Deaconess Hospital, Minneapolis
Incorporated on August 14, 1891, Rebecca M. Harrison Deaconess Home emerged during the late nineteenth century Christian deaconess movement, which encouraged young women to live in religious community to train for and carry out humanitarian work, particularly associated with the body, among the...