What began as the boom site for the mid-nineteenth-century Upper Midwest
lumber industry quickly grew into the town of St. Anthony. In 1872, St.
Anthony was annexed by its neighbor, Minneapolis, but the area retained
its identity as Northeast Minneapolis, or Nordeast to future residents.
Northeast was an industrial hub that attracted immigrant labor from
Eastern Europe and beyond. Because of its diverse labor and cultural
institutions and communities, it grew and prospered despite the
challenges presented by Prohibition, the Great Depression and World War
II. Today, Nordeast embraces its status as a neighborhood where art
galleries, independent theaters, live music venues, world-class ethnic
restaurants, taprooms and historic churches all exist within mere blocks
of one another.