William R. Merriam residence

ID: 649
This file appears in: Frogtown's Mansion District

Date: Approximately 1888

Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society

Original in: Picturesque St. Paul / edited by J.G. Pyle. Plate LXXIX

This file appears in: Frogtown's Mansion District

By Jane McClure
Frogtown once had a mansion district along University and Sherburne avenues, near today’s state capitol. The mansions of some of Saint Paul’s richest and most powerful people looked out over the…