Harold E. Stassen brought to you by Longines
Brought to you by Longines, World’s Most Honored Watch Minnesota’s 25th Governor, Harold Stassen was born in Dakota County on April 13, 1907. He graduated from St. Paul’s Humboldt High School at the age of 14 and received his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1929. Stassen was elected Dakota [...]
The St. Clair Substation Control House Then and Now
Here’s a picture of the guys building a long awaited, Northern States Power substation control house overlooking the Ayd Mill trench on St. Clair Avenue in St. Paul. Electric power often needs to flow through several substations between generating plant and your house and its voltage may change in several steps. Lowly substations like [...]
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 [...]
Back When Minneapolis Was A Big City
Minneapolis was a bigger place when these postcards came out. The population of Minnesota’s largest city has declined by almost 140,000 souls since climbing to a peak of 521,718 in 1950. In the middle of the last century, approximately 70.0% of the metropolitan area’s population was concentrated in the city limits of St. Paul [...]
St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church Then and Now
The First Trinity Church of God in Christ was founded in September, 1976 by then, Minister Henry Brown. Church was held in the Whittier Community Center at 2600 Grand Avenue in Minneapolis. Back in 1978 the congregation left the fun side of the river and moved into the old St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran [...]
