Aerial of Hamline University and surrounding area
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Hamline University in the foreground. Present day Pierce Butler Route (platted in 1961) follows the railroad tracks in the background.
Photographer: St. Paul Dispatch & Pioneer Press
Date: March 10, 1958
Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
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Pierce Butler Route
Pierce Butler Route is known by many as a shortcut through area neighborhoods, Pierce Butler Route is named for one of Saint Paul’s U.S. Supreme Court justices. The street was platted in…