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He founded Cottage Hospital (1870), the first hospital in the city of Minneapolis, which was moved and renamed St. Barnabas Hospital (1871–1991), [2] which ultimately was closed and sold in 1991 to Hennepin County Medical Center, [3] and the Sheltering Arms Hospital. In 1877 he was elected missionary bishop of New Mexico and Arizona but declined.
The Knickerbocker or New-York Monthly Magazine (1833–1865), a literary magazine founded by Charles Fenno Hoffman; The Knickerbocker Gang, a series of children's books by Austrian writer Thomas Brezina, and a TV series based on the books
John D. Rockefeller, the family founder and the nation's first billionaire, joined the Union League Club, a fairly respectable but not top-level club; John D. Rockefeller, Jr., belonged to the University Club, a step up from his father; and finally his son John D. Rockefeller, III, reached the pinnacle with his acceptance into the Knickerbocker ...
"Everybody Is a Star: How the Rock Club First Avenue Made Minneapolis the Center of Music in the '80s". Pitchfork. Riemenschneider, Chris (2016). "Prince and First Avenue: a history of the club's ties to its brightest star". Star Tribune. Riemenschneider, Chris (17 January 2008). "A day in the life of First Avenue". Star Tribune.
One day last month, a record 244 people passed through Peace House, crowding the main room and exacerbating friction among ... Peace House, 40-year-old south Minneapolis community center, facing ...
The Knickerbocker Club was founded in 1871 by members of the Union Club of the City of New York who were concerned that the club's admission standards had fallen. [6] By the 1950s, urban social club membership was dwindling, in large part because of the movement of wealthy families to the suburbs. In 1959, the Knickerbocker Club considered ...
The Knickerbocker magazine was a subsidiary of the group founded in 1833 by Charles Fenno Hoffman and was contributed to by many Knickerbocker group members across the early to mid 19th century. The magazine was considered by Perry Miller to be “the most influential literary organ in America” by 1840 under its editor Lewis Gaylord Clark. [ 10 ]
In the mid-1990s, the Jewelers Exchange Building on 1st Avenue was also torn down. The only structures occupying the block were the Shubert Theater and an elevated billboard. The Shubert was moved a block north to a site adjacent to the Hennepin Center for the Arts by the Minnesota Shubert Performing Arts and Education Center in February 1999. [4]