List of Registered Historic Places in Ramsey County, Minnesota
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This is a complete List of Registered Historic Places in Ramsey County, Minnesota. The list includes 108 Registered Historic Places including three National Historic Landmarks, which are recognized by the United States government for their historical significance. A supplementary list includes four additional sites that were Registered Historic Places, or are listed in adjacent counties.
Ramsey County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota, bounded in some places by the Mississippi River, by Hennepin County, Anoka County, Washington County, and Dakota County. All of the county seat, Saint Paul is in the county, including Saint Paul's "West Side" neighborhood, which is south of the Mississippi River.
Historic Places
The county's historic places include houses, places of worship, commerce, and education, and community centers and infrastructure. Several districts encompass several structures of related historic significance. Some of the oldest structures in the state are in Ramsey County, representing the earliest of non-native residents in the state. As the northernmost natural port on the Upper Mississippi River, Saint Paul grew, handling both river and rail freight and passenger traffic. Even as Minneapolis (in Hennepin County) eventually surpassed Saint Paul in the volume of commerce, Saint Paul remained relevant as the state capitol and associated government services and employment kept the county growing. Several of the sites are specifically related to the various first-generation immigrant populations that made Ramsey County their new home in America, especially Germans, Czechs, Scandinavians, and Austro-Hungarians, which together comprised the majority of residents in the first century of the county's history.
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- This National Park Service list is complete as of March 21, 2008[1]
| [2] | Registered Historic Place name[3] | Image | Date listed | Location | City or Town | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arlington Hills Library |  |
1984-02-10 | 1105 Greenbrier Street |
Saint Paul | 1916 Beaux Arts library building designed by Cameron and Company; a Carnegie Library |
| 2 | John M. Armstrong House |  |
1983-01-27 | 225 Eagle Parkway |
Saint Paul | John Milton Armstrong, son of John Armstrong, Jr. (April 20, 1793 – December 22, 1865) hired architect Edward Payson Bassford to design this side-by-side duplex in 1886 as income-producing residential housing. The red brick house was originally located at at 233-235 West Fifth Street, but was moved to its present location on Eagle Parkway in November 2001. |
| 3 | Assumption School |  |
1975-03-26 | 68 Exchange Street |
Saint Paul | built in 1864 of local quarter-cut limestone, it is affiliated with the nearby Church of the Assumption[4] |
| 4 | Dr. Ward Beebe House |  |
1977-08-29 | 2022 Summit Avenue |
Saint Paul | also known as the John Leuthold residence, this three-story stucco prairie house was built by Dr. Ward and Bess Beebe and designed by Purcell and Elmslie in 1912 |
| 5 | Blair Flats |  |
1975-07-18 | 165 Western Avenue |
Saint Paul | Victorian building designed by Hermann Kretz and William H. Thomas in 1887; construction materials are sandstone-and-brick; has been used as apartments, hotel, and condominiums |
| 6 | Bridges No. L-5853 and 92247 |   |
1989-11-06 | Lexington Avenue in Como Park |
Saint Paul | two side-by side bridges built in 1904 under which the Como-Harriet streetcar ran, connecting to the nearby Twin City Rapid Transit Company station, just to the southeast; Bridge No. 92247 carried traffic on Lexington Avenue over the tracks and Bridge No. L-5853 carried pedestrians; the latter is an example of an early reinforced concrete arch bridge, using the Melan (Josef Melan) reinforcing system by the William S. Hewett & Company of Minneapolis |
| 7 | Joseph Brings House |  |
1983-01-11 | 178 Goodrich Avenue |
Saint Paul | also known as the Johan and Maria Magdalena Schilliger House, originally located at 314 Smith Avenue North, the home was built between 1859 and 1862 by John Schilliger,[5] and purchased by Brings in 1863; a cooper, Joseph Brings (1820-1899) was born in Germany and came to Saint Paul in 1857; 83004868 |
| 8 | Markell and Edward Brooks, Sr. House |  |
2000-06-15 | 176 Mississippi River Boulevard North |
Saint Paul | better known as Eastcliff, the Brooks house is a 20-room house overlooking the Mississippi River, that serves as the official residence of the president of the University of Minnesota system |
| 9 | Benjamin Brunson House |  |
1975-05-12 | 485 Kenny Rd. |
Saint Paul | one of the oldest houses remaining in Saint Paul, it was built ca. 1856 in the area known as "railroad island," being surrounded by tracks |
| 10 | Casiville Bullard House |  |
1997-01-09 | 1282 Folsom Street |
Saint Paul | the skilled African-American stonemason and bricklayer, Tennessee-born Casiville Bullard, built this American Foursquare home for himself in 1910 |
| 11 | Burbank-Livingston-Griggs House |  |
1970-10-15 | 432 Summit Avenue |
Saint Paul | one of the first examples of Italianate or Tuscan order architecture in Saint Paul, the house was designed by Chicago architect Otis L. Wheelock and built 1862-1865 for James C. Burbank, a wealthy owner of the Minnesota Stage Company, which held a state-wide monopoly controlling 1600 miles of stage-lines by 1865[6] |
| 12 | Pierce and Walter Butler House |  |
1982-04-22 | 1345-1347 Summit Avenue |
Saint Paul | a side-by-side duplex, also in the West Summit Avenue Historic District, built in 1900 by Clarence H. Johnston, Sr. for United States Supreme Court justice Pierce Butler and his brother, Walter Butler |
| 13 | C.S.P.S. Hall |  |
1977-02-17 | 381-383 Michigan Street |
Saint Paul | Czech-Slovak Protective Society Hall - a recreation center and meeting house used for social events; important to the cultural preservation of Czech immigrants |
| 14 | Central Presbyterian Church |  |
1983-02-10 | 500 Cedar Street |
Saint Paul | a Richardsonian Romanesque church building designed by Warren H. Hayes; built of coarsely carved Lake Superior brownstone[7] |
| 15 | Church of St. Agnes-Catholic |  |
1980-11-19 | 548 Lafond Avenue |
Saint Paul | onion-domed church building designed by George Ries, built 1901-1912 for the German-speaking Austro-Hungarian population of immigrants |
| 16 | Church of St. Bernard-Catholic |  |
1983-02-24 | 197 Geranium Avenue West |
Saint Paul | church building designed by John Jager, built 1905-1914 in the Prairie School and Art Nouveau styles |
| 17 | Church of St. Casimir-Catholic |  |
1983-03-31 | 937 Jessamine Avenue East |
Saint Paul | church building built in 1904 in the Beaux Arts style |
| 18 | Church of the Assumption-Catholic |   |
1975-02-10 | 51 9th Street West |
Saint Paul | the oldest existing church in Saint Paul; built in a plain Romanesque style of Lake Superior limestone by a German Catholics, and is said to have been modeled after the Ludwigskirche in Munich |
| 19 | Cyrus B. Cobb House | Image goes here | 1983-04-14 | 2199 1st Street |
White Bear Lake | a home built ca. 1885-1889, the solid brick house was designed in the Queen Anne architectural style |
| 20 | Colorado Street Bridge |  |
1990-07-05 | East side of South Wabasha Street near Terrace Park |
Saint Paul | also known as Bridge No. L-8803, a skew arch bridge, designed in 1888 by Andreas W. Munster; now restricted to pedestrian traffic |
| 21 | Commerce Building |  |
2007-07-03 | 8 Fourth Street East |
Saint Paul | 12-story office building built in 1912 is now mixed commercial, office, and residential; 07000645 |
| 22 | Como Park Conservatory |  |
1974-11-19 | Como Park |
Saint Paul | the 1913 conservatory is home to thousands of species of flora |
| 23 | William and Catherine Davern Farm House |  |
1983-10-06 | 1173 Davern Street South |
Saint Paul | Italianate farmhouse built in 1862; William Davern was a member of the first territorial legislature |
| 24 | Derham Hall and Our Lady of Victory Chapel, College of Saint Catherine |   |
1985-10-31 | 2004 Randolph Avenue |
Saint Paul | educational and religious buildings part of the College of St. Catherine |
| 25 | Finch, Vanslyck, and McConville Dry Goods Company Building |  |
1982-02-01 | 366 Wacouta Street |
Saint Paul | classical revival industrial building designed by James E. Denson, built by George Grant Construction Company, 1911, 1923; part of Lowertown Historic District; fronts Smith Park (now Mears Park) |
| 26 | First Baptist Church of Saint Paul |  |
1983-02-24 | 499 Wacouta Street |
Saint Paul | when it opened on May 31, 1875, it was the largest and most costly church in Saint Paul, described in the Pioneer Press as "the finest piece of architecture west of Chicago" |
| 27 | First National Bank of White Bear | Image goes here | 1983-02-24 | 4744 Washington Avenue |
White Bear Lake | classical revival bank building designed by Clark E. Van Kirk, unique for the area with a red tile roof; designed in 1921 |
| 28 | F. Scott Fitzgerald House |  |
1971-11-11 | 599 Summit Avenue |
Saint Paul | F. Scott Fitzgerald's home designed by William H. Willcox and Clarence H. Johnston, Sr. |
| 29 | Fitzpatrick Building |  |
1990-07-19 | 465-467 Wabasha Street North |
Saint Paul | 1890 Queen Anne style commercial building featuring corner turret and pressed-metal relief |
| 30 | Foss House | Image goes here | 1983-05-19 | 321 Silver Lake Rd. |
New Brighton | a large 1896 Victorian house featuring corner tower, built by Ingebor and Peder Foss in then rural New Brighton |
| 31 | Germania Bank Building |  |
1977-12-06 | 6 5th Street West |
Saint Paul | 1889 Richardson Romanesque office tower built of sandstone designed by J. Walter Stevens |
| 32 | Heman Gibbs Farmstead |  |
1975-04-23 | 2097 Larpentuer Avenue |
Falcon Heights | home of Heman Gibbs and Jane DeBow, first built in 1854; the existing farmhouse includes the small, original cabin |
| 33 | Giesen-Hauser House |  |
1983-05-19 | 827 Mound Street |
Saint Paul | 1891 Queen Anne style sandstone and brick house, designed by Albert Zschoke; also known as Gregory & Nancy Ward Residence |
| 34 | S. Edward Hall House |  |
1991-04-16 | 996 Iglehart Avenue |
Saint Paul | home of S. Edward Hall (1878-1975), an African American businessman and founder of the Saint Paul chapter of the NAACP; 91000440 |
| 35 | Hamm Building |  |
1997-05-30 | 408 Saint Peter Street |
Saint Paul | 1915 limestone, terra cotta, and brick commercial building; ornamentation is exceptional |
| 36 | Harriet Island Pavilion |  |
1992-07-10 | 75 Water Street |
Saint Paul | designed by Clarence W. Wigington, the nation's first black municipal architect, and renamed for Wigington after a 2000 restoration[7] |
| 37 | Edward and Elizabeth Heimbach House and Carriage House |  |
1983-10-20 | 64 Delos Street West |
Saint Paul | 1890 high victorian style two story, 2556-square-foot brick house; the house has an octagonal tower and dome and a detached carriage house |
| 38 | Highland Park Tower |  |
1986-07-17 | 1570 Highland Pkwy. |
Saint Paul | octagonally-shaped tower, designed by Clarence W. Wigington — 134 feet high and holds 200,000 gallons of water in a steel tank; it is topped with an arched observation deck |
| 39 | James J. Hill House |  |
1966-10-15 | 240 Summit Avenue |
Saint Paul | with 36,000 square feet (3,344 square meters) of living area, the house is the largest residence in Minnesota |
| 40 | James J. Hill's North Oaks Farm, Blacksmith Shop and Machine Shop | Image goes here | March 6, 1998 | Red Barn Road and Hill Farm Circle |
North Oaks | here horses were shod and hinges and wagon wheels were constructed for use on the farm; 98000312 |
| 41 | James J. Hill's North Oaks Farm, Dairy Building | Image goes here | 1997-05-16 | Red Barn Road and Hill Farm Circle |
North Oaks | in the dairy building, Hill installed a DeLaval separator and barrel churns, which automated the production of butter, using centrifugal force powered by a steam engine; the operation was a forerunner of the modern commercial butter-making industry; 97000441 |
| 42 | Jacob Hinkel House |  |
1978-01-03 | 531 Brainerd Avenue |
Saint Paul | built by ice-dealer, Jacob Hinkle in 1873 two miles north of downtown, in a rural area in what was New Canada township; the rural route was named after Horace J. Brainerd (1825-1902) an influential property-owner and politician |
| 43 | Historic Hill District |  |
1976-08-13 | Irregular pattern from Pleasant and Grand Avenues to Holly and Marshall Avenues, from Lexington Parkway to 4th and Pleasant Streets |
Saint Paul | the prestigious high-elevation area northwest of downtown, extending west to Lexington Avenue; known for having a number of historic houses, churches, synagogues, and schools |
| 44 | E. H. Hobe House-Solheim | Image goes here | 1983-05-19 | 5590 Bald Eagle Boulevard West |
White Bear Lake | Victorian home designed by Minneapolis architect Carl F. Struck in the mid-1890s; home of the, Norwegian consul |
| 45 | Holman Field Administration Building |  |
1991-08-15 | 644 Bayfield Street |
Saint Paul | a Kasota limestone building designed by Clarence Wigington and built in 1939 by WPA employees |
| 46 | Intercity Bridge |  |
1989-11-06 | Ford Pkwy. over Mississippi River |
Saint Paul | more commonly known as the Ford Parkway Bridge (and sometimes referred to as the 46th Street Bridge), is a reinforced concrete arch bridge that spans the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and Saint Paul; the bridge is historically significant as one of the largest reinforced concrete bridges ever built in Minnesota. It was built in 1925-1927 by James O. Heyworth, Inc. and was designed by Martin Sigvart Grytbak. |
| 47 | Horace Hills Irvine House |  |
1974-12-16 | 1006 Summit Avenue |
Saint Paul | the official home of the governor of Minnesota, slightly over 16,000 square feet (1,500 m²) in size, it was designed by Minneapolis architect William Channing Whitney for Saint Paul lumberman Horace Hills Irvine and his family; the 20 room English Tudor house has nine bedrooms, eight bathrooms, and nine fireplaces |
| 48 | Irvine Park Historic District |  |
1973-11-27 | Roughly bounded by Irvine Park, West 7th, Walnut, and Sherman |
Saint Paul | the low-elevation neighborhood just west of downtown Saint Paul that contains a number of historic homes; it was platted by John Irvine and Henry Mower Rice in 1849. At the center of the neighborhood is Irvine Park, a New England-style public square |
| 49 | Frank B. Kellogg House |  |
1974-11-06 | 633 Fairmount Avenue |
Saint Paul | home of Frank B. Kellogg, co-author of the Kellogg-Briand Pact[7] |
| 50 | Krank Manufacturing Company |  |
1983-02-24 | 1855 University Avenue West |
Saint Paul | 1926 industrial building with glazed terra cotta panels featuring brightly carved floral and classical motifs |
| 51 | Lauer Flats |  |
1975-06-05 | 226 Western Avenue South |
Saint Paul | 1887 residential townhouses designed by Henry and Charles Lauer in Greek Revival style |
| 52 | Olaf Lee House |  |
1984-02-16 | 955 Jessie Street North |
Saint Paul | 1905 house designed by Clarence Johnston, significant for sophisticated Swiss Chalet and craftsman design |
| 53 | Lowertown Historic District |  |
1983-02-21 | Roughly bounded by Kellogg Boulevard, Broadway, 7th and Jackson Streets |
Saint Paul | originally the lower landing on the Mississippi River, it was the first port of access to the Twin Cities on the river; several warehouse, railroad, banking, and distribution buildings served the entire Upper Midwest from 1880-1920; architects who contributed to the neighborhood include Cass Gilbert, J. Walter Stevens, and Charles Frost |
| 54 | David Luckert House |  |
1975-05-12 | 480 Iglehart Street |
Saint Paul | 1858 limestone house; one of the oldest homes in Saint Paul |
| 55 | Manhattan Building |  |
1988-06-22 | 360 Robert Street North |
Saint Paul | Renaissance Revival office and banking building also known as Empire Building; designed by Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., 1889 |
| 56 | Andrew R. McGill House |  |
1974-12-31 | 2203 Scudder Avenue |
Saint Paul | Queen Anne style home of Governor Andrew R. McGill (served 1887-1889); designed in 1888 by W. A. Hunt |
| 57 | Mendota Road Bridge |  |
1989-11-06 | Water Street over Pickerel Lake Outlet |
Saint Paul | historically significant as an example of a small-scale 19th century stone arch highway bridge; the bridge resembles other stone arch bridges built in Minnesota townships during the late 1800s and early 1900s, but its ornamentation is unique |
| 58 | Merchants National Bank |
