Tour: Selby Avenue

Since 1840, Saint Paul has taken on different identities: frontier hamlet, steamboat burg, provincial capital, railroad boomtown, city in stagnation, city in decline, city in revival. These transformations have left their marks all over town. Nowhere can one see them better than on Selby Avenue.

Download the tour below to follow the growth of Saint Paul from the empire building days of the 19th-century to a city of inviting neighborhoods.