Sun on the Selby Theater
Built in 1911 this old place at 989 Selby was St. Paul’s first theater designed for motion pictures. The building was listed as the Selby Theatre in the 1915 St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press Almanac. In 1918 the city granted R. J. Howden a license to “Conduct a Motion Picture Theater” in the [...]
The Spangenberg Residence Then and Now
Built in 1864, the yellow limestone walls of the Frederick Spangenberg House’l came from banks of the Mississippi River. The rocks were hauled up on a sled by oxen. Frederick Spangenberg was a German immigrant dairy farmer. His 80-acre farm become the best part of Saint Paul’s Highland Park neighborhood. The house was occupied [...]
The Church of the Assumption Then and Now
The Church of the Assumption was founded by Bishop Joseph Cretin in 1856. The original church, known as the Feast of the Assumption was just north of the present site. The congregation, made up of immigrants from Germany outgrew their original building, and work began on the new church in 1871. The Romanesque [...]
There is only one in Minneapolis…
There’s only one girl in Minneapolis and two or three in Saint Paul I knew a girl in Robbinsdale, but she was too tall There’s only one girl in Minneapolis I don’t know any in Golden Valley There’s one out in Edina, my sister Sally There’s only one in Minneapolis She’s all I need to [...]
The Church of Saint Agnes Then and Now
The third church built on this site since 1887, The Church of Saint Agnes was completed in 1912. The style of the church was familiar to people who came from the old Austro-Hungarian Empire and southern Germany. The architect, George Ries, and the pastor, Father John Solnce, with the board of trustees chose as [...]
