Archive for August, 2014
The Phillips Neighborhood Clinic is moving!
Where: St. Paul”'s Lutheran Church at 2742 15th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55407 When: Mondays and Thursdays at 6:00 pm starting Monday, August 4th As of Monday, July 21st the Phillips Neighborhood Clinic will no longer offer full medical services until the re-opening of the clinic on Monday, August 4th at our new location ”“ St. Paul”'s Lutheran Church. During this two-week transitional period, the PNC will continue to offer medication refills, follow-up care, community health, and select lab services at our current location in the Oliver Christian Ministry Center. We will officially close at Oliver Christian Ministry Center after clinic on Wednesday, July 30th. The clinic will then open at our new location at St. Paul”'s on Monday, August 4th and provide full medical services. At our new location, the PNC will operate on Mondays and Thursdays from 6-9 pm. Note the change in weekdays, as the PNC has traditionally been open on [...]
First Minneapolis Library start-up money donor, Dr. Kirby Spencer, trusted and cared for by Armstrong English
By Sue Hunter Weir Dr. Kirby Spencer, one of Minneapolis”' first dentists, is generally credited with providing the money to start Minneapolis”' Athenaeum* which functioned as the city”'s first public library. Eventually the Athenaeum evolved into the Minneapolis Public Library and more recently into the Hennepin County Library. His was one of the early burials in Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery and even though he was later disinterred and reburied at Lakewood, he remains one of the cemetery”'s most written about residents. Another man, Armstrong English, who most likely has never been written about, took care of Spencer in the weeks and months before he died. English and two of his infant sons, both infants, are still buried in Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery. Spencer, a private and very eccentric man, fell ill in the early months of 1870. As his health began to fail, he became increasingly reclusive, living “a sort of hermits life” in his office [...]
