Early Years in Saint Paul When the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company relocated from Duluth to Saint Paul in 1910, all of the company offices and manufacturing operations were housed in one…

This Medieval Rectilinear styled house at 339 Summit Avenue was built in 1898 for the cost of $14,000. The owner Crawford Livingston hired architect Cass Gilbert to design the home. The house’s unique…

- 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…

Setting the Cornerstone, Building 21 President William L. McKnight, accompanied by chief engineer E. M. Johnson, supervised the installation of the cornerstone in October 1939. The mason worked for…

The Congregation of the Russian Brotherhood, founded in 1886, is shown on the 1904 Sanborn map at 202 E. Fairfield Ave., with “Agudas Achim” in parentheses below the building name; on the 1939 revised…

1225 Estabrook Drive // Saint Paul, MN 55103 For over 100 years, Como Zoo and Marjorie McNeely Conservatory has charmed, educated, and entertained millions while fostering an appreciation of the…

The number of Latino people living on the East Side has increased dramatically since the 1980’s. There are now numerous restaurants, groceries and other stores that respond to their specific cultural…

The Italian Catholic community worshiped at Holy Redeemer, located in downtown Saint Paul.

The histories of the church, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and of Sister Giovanni (“Sister G” as she was known) are intertwined. In 1931. the Guild of Catholic women rented space in a grocery store at 123 S.…

Established in 1912, the Chesed Shel Emes Cemetery was founded on the principle of Judaism that refers to a “Duty of Truth”, a phrase with many different translations, including “true loving…

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.…

When the former house on the site of 275 Summit Avenue burned on February 8th, 1895, it was replaced by a new home in 1901. The previous mansion, a large brick structure, was built by Joseph Oppenheim…

- 434-438 Lafond Avenue - This two-story red brick structure was built in 1888 and looks much the same as it did when it was built as housing, store and community space. It is now the Lafond Avenue…

419 Sherburne Avenue is the Charles James home. The three-story home, with its corner bay windows, is missing its original front porch and much of a second floor balcony, so it looks much differently…

Half a mile west of the Rau-Strong House is the Charles Haas House at 214 West George. Note the wonderful front porch and attic windows above. Built in 1889. Charles Haas was born in Indiana…

- 567 Edmund Avenue - The Charles Buetow home at 567 Edmund Ave. is a third example of a historic brick home that remains in good condition and retains much of its original appearance. Buetow was a…

This large brick home was built in 1895 for Dr. Charles Wheaton, a physician and surgeon, and his family. Constructed for a cost of $15,000, the house is Queen Anne in style, and bears a strong…

The idea for the Changsha Friendship Garden, the first phase of which was completed in 2019, was included in the 2010 Phalen-Keller Regional Park Master Plan and approved in 2011, but no action was…

Completed in 1915, The Cathedral of St. Paul was the creation of Archbishop John Ireland, architect Emmanuel Masqueray, and the mostly anonymous artists, craftsmen, masons, stonecutters, laborers, and…

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,…