News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Friday December 19th 2025
To Be Remembered
By Sue Hunter Weir
Names in Stone
Stories in Memory
Pictures in Archives
Albert Swanson and his sister, Eleanore Chakolis, never knew their great-grandmother or their paternal grandparents but they wanted to make sure that that part of their family”'s history would not be forgotten. In October 2010, Albert and Eleanore, now in their nineties, visited Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery to pay their respects to several family members and to see the three markers that they had arranged to have placed on their relatives”' graves a few weeks earlier.
Anna Andersdotter, Albert and Eleanore”'s great grandmother, emigrated from Sweden on September 11, 1887. She was born in a crofter”'s cottage in Norra Vanga, Skaraborg, Sweden in 1822.… Read the rest “To Be Remembered”
One Year Success at PCC: Ideas Welcome
As I am writing this article, It seems incredible that Running Wolf Fitness Center will soon be celebrating its one year anniversary! Running Wolf Fitness Center opened its doors last year on October 17th, 2011. Just a bit of an update on Running Wolf for this last year.
We are located in the Phillips Community Center building located at 2323 11th Avenue South in Minneapolis. Since we opened there have also been many additions to the rest of the building with other agencies and the Minneapolis Park Board. So it is a much busier place! Agencies that are in the building are:
Waite House
Guri Nabad
Ventura Village Neighborhood Assn
A Partnership of Diabetics -APOD
Minneapolis Swims
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Need a Building? The OLD Waite House is Available
Act Fast! Deadline is Nov. 8, 2012 at 4PM
With the Waite House program entrenched in their new digs in the Phillips Community Center at 2323 11th Avenue, the question of the old building”'s use rises. The old “Waite House” building which is now referred to as “The Property at 2539 13th Ave. S.” was built in the late 1960s using federal funds. The funds were passed through the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) to Pillsbury United Communities”' Waite House. The MPRB is the owner of the land and building, but has never occupied it.
In spite of the fact that 2539 13th Ave. S. has served the South Minneapolis community, especially the Phillips Neighborhoods, extremely well for forty-two years, the MPRB is not interested in continuing to own or operate the building.
“Due to significant interest in the property by the community and because of the property”'s prominence in the community, the MPRB believes it is important to conduct a request for proposals (RFP) process that engages the community and focuses on compatible reuse while meeting the financial interests of the MPRB.” “The MPRB approved a community-based disposition process for property at 2539 13th Ave. S. The resolution initiates a charge to the Midtown Phillips Neighborhood Association to inclusively solicit and recommend proposals that meet the needs of the neighborhood and the financial interests of the MPRB.”… Read the rest “Need a Building? The OLD Waite House is Available”
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