St. Paul

St. Paul
Title St. Paul PDF eBook
Author Bill Lindeke
Publisher Urban Biography
Pages 192
Release 2021-05
Genre History
ISBN 9781681342009

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A concise history, featuring stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you see Minnesota's capitol city.

History of St. Paul and Vicinity

History of St. Paul and Vicinity
Title History of St. Paul and Vicinity PDF eBook
Author Henry Anson Castle
Publisher
Pages 506
Release 1912
Genre Saint Paul (Minn.)
ISBN

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The Street Where You Live

The Street Where You Live
Title The Street Where You Live PDF eBook
Author Donald Empson
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Pages 352
Release 2006
Genre History
ISBN 9780816647293

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More than one thousand entries and more than one hundred photographs present an entertaining history of the often quirky origins of St. Paul place names, from A Street to Zimmermann Place and including parks, lakes, streams, roads, cemeteries, bridges, neighborhoods, and many other landmarks. Original.

Irish in Minnesota

Irish in Minnesota
Title Irish in Minnesota PDF eBook
Author Ann Regan
Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pages 89
Release 2009-06-26
Genre History
ISBN 0873516737

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As farmers and laborers, policemen and politicians, maids and seamstresses, Irish immigrants' hard work helped to build the state. Author Ann Regan examines their history and tells the diverse stories of the Irish in Minnesota.

Days of Rondo

Days of Rondo
Title Days of Rondo PDF eBook
Author Evelyn Fairbanks
Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pages 196
Release 2010-08
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 0873518136

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Evelyn Fairbanks lived along Rondo Avenue-the heart of St. Paul's largest black community-from the 1930s through the 1950s. Her memoir tells warm and human stories recalling those years in a vibrant community that vanished with the coming of the freeways in the 1960s.

South St. Paul

South St. Paul
Title South St. Paul PDF eBook
Author Lois A. Glewwe
Publisher Arcadia Publishing
Pages 176
Release 2015-12-07
Genre History
ISBN 1625854137

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Incorporated in 1887, South St. Paul grew rapidly as the blue-collar counterpart to the bright lights and sophistication of its cosmopolitan neighbors Minneapolis and St. Paul. Its prosperous stockyards and slaughterhouses ranked the city among America's largest meatpacking centers. The proud city fell on hard economic times in the second half of the twentieth century. Broad swaths of empty buildings were razed as an enticement to promised redevelopment programs that never happened. In 1990, South St. Paul began to chart out its own successful path to renewal with a pristine riverfront park, a trail system and a business park where the stockyards once stood. Author and historian Lois A. Glewwe brings the story of the city's revival to life in this history of a remarkable community.

St. Paul's Historic Summit Avenue

St. Paul's Historic Summit Avenue
Title St. Paul's Historic Summit Avenue PDF eBook
Author Ernest Robert Sandeen
Publisher
Pages 110
Release 2004
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780816644094

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Well known as the most prestigious and beautiful street in the Twin Cities, Summit Avenue runs past the opulent mansion of railroad tycoon James J. Hill, an early home of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and several residences designed by renowned architect Cass Gilbert. In its heyday the four-and-one-half-mile-long boulevard included 13 churches, 9 schools, and 440 residences, 373 of which survive. St. Paul's Historic Summit Avenue highlights the fascinating story of this boulevard, from its pre-Civil War origins, when the area was still considered wilderness, to its fashionable height at the turn of the century. Ernest R. Sandeen discusses the preservation of Summit Avenue and takes readers on a walking tour of the first and grandest mile of the street, beginning with the Cathedral of St. Paul. A second walking tour gives the reader Fitzgerald's Summit Avenue, including excerpts from his notebooks and stories describing the area. The book concludes with an index of Summit Avenue houses built through the 1970s. Before his death in 1982, Ernest R. Sandeen was the James Wallace Professor of History and codirector of the Living Historical Museum at Macalester College. He served as a member of St. Paul's Historic Preservation Commission and as a partner in Lanegran, Richter, and Sandeen, an architectural preservation, design, and land-use firm.