- 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…

- 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…

(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…

(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,…

(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…

(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.…

- 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…

- 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…

(First Trust Center) - 176 East Fifth Street - (enter on Fourth between Jackson and Sibley) - 1914-16, Charles S. Frost - James J. Hill crowned his extraordinary career with a plan to build…

(Depot Place) - 214 East Fourth Street (between Sibley and Wacouta) - - 1917-23, Charles S. Frost - Riverboat traffic gave Saint Paul its start, but with the railroads, the city grew into a…

The house at 505 Summit Avenue was built in 1896 for George Freeman. Designed by Cass Gilbert in the Medieval Rectilinear style, it is constructed of stone and cost $20,000 to build. Cass Gilbert is…

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…

The mansion at 495 Summit Avenue was built in 1881 for Cyrus and Mary Thurston. Although the architect is unknown, it is likely that the house was designed by local architect Augustus F. Gauger.…

The large brick house at 490 Summit Avenue was built in 1883 for Addison and Martha Foster. The home is overall Romanesque in style with Queen Anne influence, and was designed by architect Clarence…

The large Victorian mansion located at 476 Summit Avenue was built in 1883 for Chauncey and Martha Griggs. Constructed for an estimated cost of $35,000, the house consists of twenty-four rooms.…

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…

The house at 261 Summit was built in 1891 for H. W. Kinney. Constructed of limestone, the total cost of the house was around $14,000. It was designed by local architect Clarence Johnston and it is…

The house at 365 Summit Avenue was built in 1892 for Martha Bass. Martha was the widow of Jacob W. Bass, an early pioneer in Saint Paul. She married Jacob in Iowa when she was about 16, and the couple…

On the site where 421 Summit stands today, there stood a small frame house. It was purchased in 1882 by Joseph Wheelock, who the then hired architect Clarence Johnston to redesign it for him. The home…

On December 31st, 1880, an article in the Saint Paul Daily Globe made a mention of William R. Marshall building a house with a mansard roof on the property of 415 Summit Avenue. Constructed for a cost…