Historic Saint Paul

Tips on home improvements to roofs, exterior walls, windows, porches, and doors, and keeping the character of your home intact while saving money and energy.

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Learn about historic housing styles in Frogtown!

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Tour Saint Paul: Dayton’s Bluff
Audio Walking Tour of Dayton’s Bluff
Heritage Preservation District

Historic Saint Paul is trying something new!
Please download our audio walking tour files, and enjoy an architectural tour of the Dayton’s Bluff Heritage Preservation District. Click on samples files for a preview and download attached files below:

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Included in this Issue:

• 4th Street Preservation Project
• Historic Preservation Chapter added to Comprehensive Plan
• Raspberry Island
• Windows 101
• Ackerman Building
• West Side’s Green Stairs
• Head House Update
• Vacant Building Data
• West Side’s Riverview Commercial Club

Download the Fall 2008 Preservation Journal to read more!

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The Minnesota Milk Company: Art Deco on the Avenue

by Michael Koop

In 2006, St. Paul-based Old Home Foods closed its production plant located on the southeast corner of University and Western Avenues.

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Vacant Housing in Saint Paul: An Opportunity for Historic Preservation

by Paul Singh

The number of vacant residential properties in Saint Paul has more than doubled over the past year. There are currently more than 1,200 vacant single-family homes and duplexes in the city. This trend is fueled by foreclosures and the recent decline in the housing market. These vacant homes are overwhelmingly concentrated in Saint Paul’s core neighborhoods: West Seventh, Summit-University, Frogtown, the North End, Payne-Phalen and Dayton’s Bluff.

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In May, 2002 Saint Paul was named as a demonstration site in the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Preservation Development Initiatives (PDI) program. The PDI program, made possible by funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is designed to incorporate historic preservation into community and economic development strategies.

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Restore Saint Paul: Mapping Historic Preservation Potential employs a geographical information system (GIS) analysis of property information, demographics and local data to identify neighborhoods that are challenged by disinvestment, yet are endowed with historic resources.

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Preservation & Transit on Saint Paul’s Central Corridor

by Carol Swenson

By the year 2014, the Twin Cities will have undergone a major transformation—the construction of a light rail line linking downtown Saint Paul and downtown Minneapolis. Following a historic alignment, the $1 billion “Central Corridor LRT Line” represents both a challenge and an opportunity for historic preservation.

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Saving the Swedish Bank Building: A Payne Avenue Landmark is Making a Comeback

by Bob Roscoe

Perhaps no other commercial street in Saint Paul contributed to the city’s immigrant history as much as Payne Avenue. The Payne Avenue State Bank Building (historically known as the Swedish Bank Building), at the corner of Payne and Case Avenues, was critical in that role. The bank was the financial backbone of the early Scandinavians, Germans, Italians, and other European settlers who established work, home, and cultural life in close-by neighborhoods. Today, Payne Avenue and the Swedish Bank are renewing those collaborative roles.

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