Settlement House

Wells Memorial Settlement House, Minneapolis

1906:  Wells Memorial was established as a combined church mission and settlement house by St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. Originally located on 6th St. between Nicollet & Hennepin Avenues.

1908:  Wells Memorial Inc. Settlement House was established to provide medical, social, and educational services...

Unity House Social Settlement

1897:  Organized by pastors from Church of the Redeemer and First Universalist Church.

1898:  Located at 1611 Washington Ave. N.

1898:  Programs include kindergarten classes, evening school, day nursery, boy and girls’ clubs, and "relief" work.

1911: New building at 250 17th Ave. N.  Now has a...

Pillsbury Settlement House, Minneapolis

The Plymouth mission was a settlement house established by the Plymouth Congregational Church in 1879. Katherine Plant reorganized the mission into Bethel Settlement in 1897. It provided social services including a day nursery for working mothers, an employment bureau, a kindergarten, and a home...

Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House

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...

North East Neighborhood House

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...

Margaret Barry House

1912:  Founded by the Minneapolis League of Catholic Women.  One room in a house at 339 NE Buchanan St.  Serving predominately Italian Catholics.

1913:  Established a kindergarten.

1915:  Construction began on Margaret Barry House at 759 N. E. Pierce St.  Center opened in Oct. 1915, operated by...

Emmanuel Cohen Center

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...

Bohemian Flats, Minneapolis

Summary: Bohemian Flats, located on the West Bank of the Mississippi River just below the Washington Avenue bridge, was a community of immigrants that flourished between 1869 and 1929.  Here rents were cheap, and despite the annual spring floods, newcomers settled in.  The earliest to make their...