The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-28
.P|LLsBuRY HOUSE
suPPLA An. BETHEL I: |.
FAMOUS SETTLEMENT WORK
=. WILL BE MOVED NOV. /,
Gift of sPillsbury Boys Costing
$4,000, Is Now Ready for Great
Work for Which It Was Designed
Business Firms Contribute to Fur
nishings-Old Workers to Be Trans
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Housed in modern quarters and SPLEEN
didly equipped for work, a full-fedged
social settlement is to begin operations
in Minneapolis this week. Pillsbury
Settlement House, erected at cost of
$4,000 by John and Charles Pillsbury,
is ready for occupancy and the work
inaugurated and carried on. thru the
last twenty-five years by Bethel set
Element will be resumed under exceed
ingly favorable conditions.
Pillsbury Settlement House stands
at 800 Sixteenth avenue S.. five blocks
from the building where the workers
of Bethel settlement have made their
headquarters. Three stories high, con-
tanning twenty-eight rooms and
equipped with every modern conve-
nience for settlement work, Pillsbury
house. is the realization of the hopes
and wishes of the Minneapolis settle
ment workers. Reading rooms for
women, men and children, game rooms,
billiard room, nursery, sick room,
bedrooms, a gymnasium an auditorium,
a large outdoor playground, everything
that will go to make a complete and
modern settlement house, has been pro
vided for at Pillsbury Settlement
House. ~ .'..'-.>=e
- Firms Are Generous.
Different mercantile firms of the city
have contributed, the furnishings for
several of the rooms and finished them
at their own expense. Bouteu Brothers,
the, New England, Moore g. SERVER,
the Minneapolis Jewelry Manufacture
ing company, and Holtzerman's Chi
cago store have each finished a room
in the settlement house. To Stanley
Hall belongs the credit for the fur
nishing of the day nursery rooms, for
Lot cf rcE, III
suite Of rooms intended for nursery
purposes has been beautifully finished.
The other rooms in the Pillsbury house
have been furnished and will be sup
ported by different groups Of women
andf by individuals who will finish
rooms as memorials for friends or rela-
tives. Of the twenty eight rooms in
Pilsbury house only three or four,
including the gymnasium and the audi
forum, have not been finished.
The workers from the old Bethel
settlement will engage in the work at
Pillsbury settlement. In addition to
to the work six young women will act
as resident workers and will spend their
entire time at the settlement They
are Elizabeth G. Taylor head resident
| workers; Louise Jamme, Ethel G..
Wayne, Florence Hutsinpillar, Inez
Appleby and Dora Moulton. The place
on the workers staff made vacant by
the death of Agnes NJ Hallin. will be
filled at the first opportunity. Margaret
Chapman, at the head of the kinder,
garten work, and Miss Jessie Hill
head Of the girls club, will also take
an active part in the work.
Passing Of Bethel.
Attic the formal opening of Pills
bury house will not take place until
later in the year, the occupancy of the
house, scheduled for. Nov. 1, marks
the end of, the Bethel period in. Min
neapolis settlement work, and the peo-
pie who have watched the progress Of
the work in the old settlement or who
have been connected with the admins
tration of affairs at the Old building,
1416 Second street S, rejoicing in the
prospect of a new and modern home,
regret in a way to leave the old builds
ing. Starting twenty-five years ago
as kindergarten and Sunday school,
Bethel settlement has come to be an
Influential element in The charitable
work of the city and many memories
are attached to the old building.
Notice Of the gifts to the settle
ment may be sent to- any members Of
the following committee Mrs. w. T..
Martin, w. L. Badger, D. D. Jones, w.
e. Andrews, o c.. Wyman, D. w.
Gamble or Miss Elizabeth Taylor