Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House

The Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House in Minneapolis, Minnesota was founded in 1924 by the Council on Social Agencies (CSA) and the Women's Cooperative Alliance (WCA).

Its first location, opened on October 17, 1924, was the repurposed Hebrew Talmud Torah School at Bassett Place which was purchased and renovated to serve the community.

It quickly outgrew the facility and in 1929 the Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House move to 809 Aldrich Avenue North.

[3] In the 1920s and early 1930s, during the Great Depression in the United States, the Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House served a variety of needs to the still-segregated Minneapolis African American community.

[2] The Settlement House also provided social services that might otherwise been provided by local government such as "locating lost relatives, the provision of care for delinquent juveniles, locating foster care placements, counseling families, securing hospital treatment, and intervening in cases of discrimination".