Built in 1864, the yellow limestone walls of the Frederick Spangenberg House 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. When August Spanburg died at Bethesda Hospital in 1932, the newspapers said he had lived in the place his mother and father had settled 75 years earlier and though he had never moved he began life on a farm far from town and ended it as the resident of a thickly settled residential district. The house was occupied by Spangenberg’s descendants until 1972 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
