Dwelling in the Flats
This file appears in: Fairfield and Livingston
Typical single dwelling in the West Side Flats with an outhouse with piece of tin for a door (right).
Image Source: Carol Aronivici, Housing Conditions in the City of St. Paul (St. Paul: Amherst H. Wilder Charity, 1917).
This file appears in: Fairfield and Livingston
Fairfield and Livingston
Find this intersection (just south and one block west of the Robert Street bridge), and what do you see? Not much? Well, only because you came several decades too late. Had you had the foresight to visit, say in 1940 or 1950, you would be standing…