Johnson Hotels

Completely Modern Rooms COMMODORE HOTEL St. Paul’s finest hotel, air-conditioned Continental Dining Room and Cocktail Lounge. HAMLINE HOTEL In St. Paul, Conveniently located midway between St. Paul and Minneapolis. COMSTOCK HOTEL Moorehead, Minn. in the heart of town.

Getting off a Hiawatha

The Milwaukee Road’s cruises easily at 100 m. p. h, and is capable of more than two miles per minute, but speed is not all. Silence and riding ease, luxurious cars. air conditioned comfort, delightful meals and courteous service have combined to make the Hiawatha the most popular train in the world. No Extra Fare!

America’s Friendliest City

St. Paul , Capitol of Minnesota , is one of the most diversified industrial cities in the nation. It is a financial , transportation , wholesale , and distribution center for the Upper Midwest area . Noted for its fine residential sections , St. Paul “combines good business with good living.” It has exceptional recreational … Read more

The William Crooks

This Civil War engine hauled first train between Saint Paul and Minneapolis on June 28, 1862. The famous locomotive is owned by Great Northern Railway Company, and is on permanent exhibition in the Saint Paul Union Depot. THE WILLIAM CROOKS The Northwest’s First Locomotive Named for the chief engineer of the St. Paul & Pacific … Read more

Bethel Academically

After the school was was moved several times, Bethel Seminary, part of the University of Chicago’s divinity school, was acquired by the churches of the Baptist General Conference and permanently relocated to to St. Paul. In 1917, it joined with a Baptist high school to form Bethel Seminary and Academy. In 1947, its sister school … Read more

Memory House

Most of the items in this house are 100 years old or more and all of them are either salesmen’s samples. children’s toys. or personal keepsakes, some of them perhaps from the home of your own grandparents. The collection required thirty-three years to gather to make it ample for an entire house of ten rooms … Read more

Ice Palace

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

A Transportation Panorama

Indian Mounds park, St. Paul, offers one of the best transportation panoramas going.It overlooks the St. Paul municipal barge terminal, Holman municipal airport, acres of rail-road trackage. heavily traveled highways and the Mississippi river, on Sundays usually bearing speed boats.You can find it from downtown St. Paul by driving northeastward uphill across the Kellogg boulevard … Read more

A Wilder Charity Building

This four-story stone and brick building faces Rice park on Washington street at Fifth avenue. the corner is the Federal building, across the street is the beautiful building of the St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company. Next to that is the facade of the Young Woman’s Christian Association. In the rear of the Charity … Read more