- 507 N. Dale Street - The beautiful Gothic Revival style brick church was a landmark in Frogtown from 1919 until its demolition in 2010. The church, designed by Saint Paul architect William Alban,…

- 3121 Edmund Avenue - This beautiful and detailed wooden church was built in 1886. Like so many other Frogtown congregations it began as a mission church in 1885. Mission churches were typically…

Most of the industrial buildings in and around the Dale Street shops were large, utilitarian structures. One exception was the main office building for the St. Paul Foundry, which stood at 500 Como…

Rapinwax Paper operated in Frogtown for many years at 293 Como Av. The company made wax paper for food handling and food preservation. In the days before plastic wrap and resealable plastic food bags,…

- 289 Como Avenue - On the site of what is now a storage business was one of Saint Paul’s most memorable taverns. In 1936, two 1887 Pullman coaches that once graced Northern Pacific's…

Aurora Park, also known as the Dale and Aurora Grounds or Comiskey Park, was Frogtown’s minor league baseball park. In 1895 Charles Comiskey started Saint Paul’s team in the fledgling Western League.…

Aurora Park was the site of an ill-fated Saint Paul Winter Carnival Ice Palace in 1896. Weather didn’t cooperate and the palace had to be scaled back from a more grand size. Fort Karnival was more of…

Frogtown once had a mansion district along University and Sherburne avenues, near today’s state capitol. The mansions of some of Saint Paul’s richest and most powerful people looked out over the…

(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…

(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…

- 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…

- 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…

(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.…

(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…

(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,…

(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…

- 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…

- 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…

(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…

(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…