Ramsey County History – Fall 1974: “The 1850s Shaping of St. Paul”
- Year
- 1979
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 2
- Creators
- Virginia Brainerd Kunz
- Topics
The 1850s Shaping of St. Paul
Author: Virginia Brainard Kunz
An 1856 photo of a dogsled team beneath the Summit Avenue bluff displays “the disparity in housing and jumbled placement of buildings” that characterized the city at the time. Minnesota Pioneer editor James Goodhue advocated replatting the whole mess into some kind of regularity. “His recommendations, as can be seen today, apparently went unheeded.”
PDF of 1850 article
- Year
- 1979
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 2
- Creators
- Virginia Brainerd Kunz
- Topics