Landmark Center

ID: 908

This file appears in: Casiville Bullard

Formerly the Federal Courts Building with Rice Park pictured in the foreground. African American stonecutters, bricklayers, and masons worked on some of the most prominent buildings downtown, including the Landmark Center, Saint Paul Public Library and the Saint Paul Hotel.

Photographer: Steve Plattner

Date: July 16, 1975

Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society

This file appears in: Casiville Bullard

Casiville Bullard

By CultureBrokers Foundation, Inc. 2008. "Points of Entry: The African American Heritage Guide to Saint Paul."

Many skilled black artisans were recruited to Saint Paul to work on buildings going up in the early 1900s. Many of them arrived from Georgia with the marble used in those buildings. Casiville Bullard, a master stonemason, helped build such Saint…