Bethel Academically

After the school was was moved several times, Bethel Seminary, part of the University of Chicago’s divinity school, was acquired by the churches of the Baptist General Conference and permanently relocated to to St. Paul. In 1917, it joined with a Baptist high school to form Bethel Seminary and Academy. In 1947, its sister school … Read more

Gathering at Glenwood

Glenwood Park extends from 16th Av. N. south almost to Cedar lake, is irregular in shape, and its surface is greatly diversified. Within its boundaries are some of the highest points of land in Hennepin county, and hidden among these hills lie three beautiful sheets of water, one covering an area of about six acres; … Read more

Lake Harriet Expedition

I sometimes wonder if people appreciate the recreational and educational facilities offered them by our parks. The other night, my wife, granddaughter, three resident aliens and myself strolled over to Lake Harriet and took a “package trip” which, for a very small fee, entitled us to passage on the launch which circumnavigated the lake. The … Read more

Beginning with St. Barnabas

Over the years, the Elliot Park neighborhood has hosted a variety of hospitals and nursing schools. St. Barnabas Hospital was founded as the Cottage Hospital in 1871 by Reverend D.B. Knickerbacker of the Gethsemane Parish of the Episcopal Church.Located between South 7th and 6th Streets and 9th and 10th Avenues South, the six bed facility … Read more

Memory House

Most of the items in this house are 100 years old or more and all of them are either salesmen’s samples. children’s toys. or personal keepsakes, some of them perhaps from the home of your own grandparents. The collection required thirty-three years to gather to make it ample for an entire house of ten rooms … Read more

At the Athletic Club

MINNEAPOLIS ATHLETIC CLUB THE CAVALIER ROOM A unique friendly room in which to meet your fellow members. Air conditioned and newly decorated. There are those old-timers who would say the “athletic” has gone out of the Minneapolis Athletic Club,but the club’s president would answer— “THE OLDER you get, the faster you ran as a kid.” … Read more