Ramsey County History – Spring 1972: “North St. Paul’s ‘Manufactories’ – Come-back – After 1893 ‘Bust'”

North St. Paul’s ‘Manufactories’—Come-back—After 1893 “Bust”
Author: Edward J. Letterman

Henry Castle developed North St. Paul as an industrial suburb, and it was just beginning to prosper when the Depression of 1893 came along. A mainstay of the community had been the Luger Furniture Company, which as early as 1888 had 200 employees at its North St. Paul factory. It survived the depression and by 1912 had doubled in capacity. Other major employers in North St. Paul were: the Konantz Saddlery; the Harris Company, maker of farm implements; the St. Paul Casket Company; Cramer and Coney, makers of wooden boxes; North St. Paul Broom Co.; furniture makers L. D. Hayes Co. and Acme Chair Co.; Wick Organ and J. G. Earhuff Organ and Piano Co; the St. Paul Iron Co. and its successor, St. Paul Stove Co.; Union Iron Works; and North St. Paul Brick Co. These all prospered best before 1893. “After the hard years of the middle 1890s, things were never the same again in North St. Paul.”
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