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Wells Fargo Express Company

By Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, 1988 & City of Saint Paul
(Johnson's Service Station) -271 East Kellogg Boulevard (between Wacouta and Wall) - - 1907, J. Walter Stevens - Since before the Civil War, Wells Fargo expedited national parcel delivery in…

Great Northern Building

By Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, 1988 & City of Saint Paul
(James J. Hill Office Building) - 281-99 East Kellogg Boulevard (between Wall and Broadway) - -1887, James Brodie - James J. Hill's success at building a railroad empire made him Saint Paul's…

Griggs and Foster's F.O.K. Building

By Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, 1988 & City of Saint Paul
- 300 Broadway Street (at Kellogg) - -1894, Edward P. Bassford - Real estate investors financed this warehouse for use by Farwell, Ozmun, and Kirk, hardware wholesalers. At the turn of the…

Northern Pacific Railway Warehouse

By Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, 1988 & City of Saint Paul
(Northern Warehouse Building) - 308 Prince Street (at Broadway) - - 1907-08, Northern Pacific Railway Company - The Northern Pacific Railway completed construction to the West Coast in 1883.…

Saint Paul Rubber Company

By Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, 1988 & City of Saint Paul
(Lowertown Commons) - 300 East Fourth Street (between Wall and Broadway) - - 1905 - Originally built for the Saint Paul Rubber Company, this building supported the tremendous weight of E. W.…

Tighe Building

By Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, 1988 & City of Saint Paul
(Market House) - 289 East Fifth Street (between Wall and Broadway) - - 1902, J. Walter Stevens - Like many others in Lowertown, this warehouse was built as a rental property with considerable…

Crane Building

By Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, 1988 & City of Saint Paul
- 281-87 East Fifth Street (at Wall) - - 1904, Reed and Stem - In 1897, Crane and Ordway Company led the Northwest in the manufacture of valves, fittings, and supplies for steam engines. Their…

J.H. Mahler Company

By Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, 1988 & City of Saint Paul
- 258-60 East Fifth Street (between Wacouta and Wall) - 1883 - This narrow storefront preserves the scale of Saint Paul buildings from the generation preceding the warehouses that dominate…

Paul Gotzian Building

By Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, 1988 & City of Saint Paul
(American House) - 352 Wacouta Street (between Fourth and Fifth) - - 1895, Cass Gilbert - Adjacent buildings illustrate Cass Gilbert's commercial work in the 1890s. After nearly forty years of…

John Wann Building

By Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, 1988 & City of Saint Paul
(Spin Knits Fabric Company) - 350-64 Sibley (at Fifth) - - 1882, attributed to J. Walter Stevens - The buildings on the south side of Mears Park share many business connections. Noyes Brothers…

Finch, Van Slyck, and McConville Dry Goods Company

By Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, 1988 & City of Saint Paul
(Cosmopolitan Building) - 366 Wacouta Street (at Fifth) - -1911, James F. Denson, architect; C.A.P. Turner, engineer - -1923 addition, Clarence Johnston Jr., architect - Finch, Van Slyck, and…

Wacouta Street Warehouse

By Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, 1988 & City of Saint Paul
(Gilbert Building) - 413 Wacouta Street (between Sixth and Seventh) - - 1893-94, Cass Gilbert - The Boston Northwest Realty Company saw great money-making potential in the commercial expansion…

First Baptist Church

By Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, 1988 & City of Saint Paul
- 499 Wacouta Street (at Ninth) - - 1875, William Boyington - (adapted by master builder Monroe Sheire) The First Baptist Church links Lowertown with its earliest history. The congregation built…

South side of Seventh Street

By Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, 1988 & City of Saint Paul
- 208-66 East Seventh Street (between Sibley and Wall) - - 1875-87 - The extroverted designs of the historic buildings on Seventh Street caught the attention of shoppers and workers riding the…

Koehler and Hinrichs Company

By Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, 1988 & City of Saint Paul
(Stevens Building) - 235-37 East Sixth Street (at Wacouta) - - 1891, J. Walter Stevens - Koehler and Hinrichs established a wholesale house for butchers' and meat packers' supplies at Fourth…

Konantz Saddlery Company Building

By Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, 1988 & City of Saint Paul
(Railroader Printing House) - 227-31 East Sixth Street (between Sibley and Wacouta) - - 1893, J. Walter Stevens - The Konantz Saddlery Company started making harness and saddles in Quincy,…

Noyes Brothers and Cutler Building

By Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, 1988 & City of Saint Paul
(Park Square Court) - 400 Sibley Street (at Sixth) - - 1886, 1889, 1906, J. Walter Stevens - Noyes Brothers and Cutler, importers and wholesale druggists, moved into their new five story…

Merchants National Bank

By Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, 1988 & City of Saint Paul
(McColl Building) - 366-68 jackson Street - (at Fifth) - 1892, Edward P. Bassford - When the Merchants National Bank opened in 1892, its two-story lobby attracted a great deal of attention.…

Pioneer Building

By Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, 1988 & City of Saint Paul
- 340 North Robert Street - (at Fourth) - 1889, Solon Beman - The Pioneer Building's owner boasted on his stationery that the building stood "At the Business Heart of Saint Paul." The high value…

Endicott Buildings

By Saint Paul Heritage Preservation Commission, 1988 & City of Saint Paul
- 141 East Fourth Street - (between Robert and Jackson) and - 350 North Robert Street - (between Fourth and Fifth) - 1891, Cass Gilbert - Cass Gilbert, architect of the State Capitol, designed…
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