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Posted on January 14, 2025

St. Paul Building Permit Collection (1883-1975) – Now Online!

RCHS is thrilled to offer online access to the St. Paul Building Permit Collection Thanks to grant awards over the past 3 years , RCHS contracted Documents 2 Disc, Inc. to digitize the 350,000 St. Paul building permits (1883-1975). With the Schneider Geospatial Beacon system and a private funder, RCHS…
Posted on February 2, 2024

ERA and the Twin Cities Computer Industry

What do the some of the giants of the computer and medical technology industries, like Control Data, Sperry Rand, Cray Research, Medtronic, UNISYS have in common? These companies, worth millions, all came from a small company that began in a nondescript building in the Midway area of Saint Paul, Engineering…