Nestled among the bustling restaurants and bars of West Seventh Street is one of the city's oldest standing private residences, the Justus Ramsey House. Built circa 1852, the small limestone residence…

The stately house at 269 Summit Avenue, was built in 1882, at a cost of $12,000. Constructed of cream colored Milwaukee brick, the mansion is Italianate in style, with its most prominent feature being…

After spending time in Europe to treat his mental health, Joseph and Mary Forepaugh moved into their new mansion on Summit Avenue in 1891. Their previous house in Irvine Park, which is now a…

(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…

There are two Brueggeman residences in Prospect Terrace within a block and a half from one another. The first is located at 382 Winslow. Martin Brueggeman made a fortune in brewing and spent a lot…

The house at 370 Summit Avenue was built in 1909 for John and Mary Mitchell. Designed by Clarence Johnston, the home is Georgian in style, and cost around $15,000 to construct. John R Mitchell was…

The house at 335 Summit was built in 1892 for John and Margaret Allen. Designed by architect J. Walter Stevens, who designed a number of Lowertown’s warehouses, the mansion is constructed of Bayfield…

This large brick house was built in 1885 for John and Julia Robertson. Constructed for a cost of $10,000, the home was designed by Charles Mould in the Queen Anne style. Charles Mould designed many…

On your way up Humboldt, take a left on Winifred Street and stop at Jerabek’s New Bohemian Coffeehouse and Bakery. There is nothing historic about the building, but the family has been operating a…

- 481-483 Edmund Avenue - The James Tracy Double House is a 2 ½ story duplex that has kept its charming wooden gingerbread porch and other building features. It was built in 1890.

- Saint Paul Early Settler, 1799-1884 - James Thompson arrived at Fort Snelling as a slave in 1827. He married an Ojibwe woman and learned the language. In the 1830s, he was hired by missionary…

240 Summit Avenue // Saint Paul, MN 55102 Take a 75-minute guided tour of the National Historic Register home of railroad baron.

The house at 485 Summit was built in 1907 for James and Minnesota “Minne” Macleod. The home is Tudor in style and was designed by James Macleod, who made a living as an architect. Built for a cost of…

(Empire Builder Business Park) - 23-27 Empire Drive - Built in 1882, the shops and the people who worked in them did every aspect of work imaginable for locomotives, freight and passenger rail…

Jackson Preparatory Magnet School, 437 Edmund Avenue, is the only Saint Paul Public School left in the neighborhood. The oldest section of the current building dates from 1924. The building was…

- 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…

By the early 1900s, the river flats of Upper Landing gradually passed to the Italian immigrants from the region of Molise in south-central Italy. “Little Italy” was a thriving, almost self-contained…

After a lengthy war between England and France (which had laid claim to the area that included today’s St. Paul), they ceded the land to England in the treaty of 1763. Eager to find out the nature of…

John Irvine’s gift to the young village had seen its zenith and a long decline, and so became a target for urban renewal. Many of the houses in the area were owned by absentee landlords and subdivided…

Closely allied to the Omaha’s Randolph Street Shops was the Orme Brass and Iron Works at Drake and Armstrong streets, a foundry that furnished a range of cast iron and brass items to the railroad’s…