Laughter, Falling Water and Time
After the Territory of Minnesota was established a young missionary , Reverend Edward Duffield Neill, went west from Philadelphia to establish the region’s first Presbyterian congregations. In 1849, he founded the First Church in downtown St. Paul. On Christmas Eve in 1855, he created a second congregation, which he named House of Hope, envisioning it … Read more
In 1903, Anna Quale Fergstad and a few other Norwegian women formed a literary club . After several meetings, Fergstad suggested the club take up charitable work. On October 19, 1903, members of the group formed the Lyngblomsten Society. Fergstad was named president. The name Lyngblomsten was selected to commemorate the national flower of Norway, … Read more
The Capitol has a framework of steel set in walls of brick and stone, supported by columns of granite and marble. The framework as well as the floors, partitions, and roof are protected against fire by hollow tile.The exterior walls are of grayish white Georgia marble, and the foundation, terraces, outside balustrades, and steps are … Read more
The neoclassical St. Paul Union Depot was designed by the famous architect, Charles Sumner Frost in 1913. Construction began in 1917. The station had 10 platforms and 21 passenger tracks. Eight of the tracks ended at Union Depot. The building was completed in 1923. A roundhouse for servicing locomotives was located southeast of the depot … Read more
ICE PALACE, St. Paul, Minn.—The jeweled, winter castle of King Boreas, ruler of the annual carnival that has earned Saint Paul the title of the “Winter Sports Capital of the Nation”. Five stories high, of modernistic design, it is composed of 30,000 blocks of ice, 3×2 feet in size, weighing 5,000 tons, separated by strips … Read more
Gov. Floyd B. Olson and Mayor Gerhard Bundlie of St. Paul, will officiate at the corner stone laying ceremony for the new state office building, Park and Aurora avenues, St. Paul, at 11 am. Wednesday. A history of the building, copies of current architects’ drawings of the building, minutes of the building commission and a … Read more
CANED Two COLONELS The Proprietors or the Merchants’ Remembered by Employees. Col. F. R. Welz and his partner and son-in-lay, Mr. Frey. of the Merchants’ who will in a ten days retire from the management of that house, were yesterday made the recipients of two fine gold-headed walking sticks. testimonials of the esteem in which … Read more
The 1884 red wooden caboose sits on a transfer table once used to move railroad cars at the former repair shops of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Built in 1885 and now on the National Register of Historic Places, the old Como Shops are part of the new business- residential complex known as Bandana Square. A … Read more
Ivy Clad Standing tall and beautiful in the twilight hush is Central, dear Old school. with whom parting, we feel, is impossible. Though we may leave our high school through graduation, never can we forget it in Our innermost hearts, nor can its inviting nooks and shady corners ever be— come dimmed in our memory. … Read more