The Beauty of St. Paul, MN
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A place of History,Culture and Silence in the bowels of the stressful city of Barcelona
The Former Convalescent Home of Saint Paul is a manificent civic building of the XVII century built for the convalescence of the sick at the neighboring Hospital de la Sant Creu (Hospital of the Saint Cross).
Even though the first stone was laid by the bishop Sentís on 26 March 1629, more than fifty years passed until the building was inaugurated, on 25 January 1680.
The Convalescent Home represented a significant improvement in convalescent care.
The figure of Saint Paul (1687) and the four gargoyles at the corner of the Cloister (1677-1679) are works of the baroque sculptor Lluis Bonifac
After departing from Saint Paul Union Depot, Amtrak train #8 rolls along Warner Road and the Mississippi River on August 16, 2020.
Built in 1887 for barrel maker Michael Murray, this Queen Anne-style house was designed by notable architect Edward P. Bassford. The house was later modified and converted into apartments in the 20th Century. It has since been lovingly restored to its original appearance. The house is a contributing structure in the Irvine Park Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
I was on the subway platform at 17:00.
32 minutes to a perfect sunset.
I was on the subway car in the tunnel when the sun left my city. I needed to work.
:-(
Built in 1889, this Richardsonian Romanesque-style building stands at the corner of Western Avenue and Selby Avenue in St. Paul’s Cathedral Hill neighborhood. The building was notably home to the W. A. Frost Pharmacy for much of its early history, being owned by Frost until his death in 1930, and remaining in business until 1950, whereupon the decline of the neighborhood and shifting demographics of the area led to its closure. In 1974, the building was purchased by the Rupp family and became home to the W. A. Frost Bar and Restaurant in 1975, which helped kickstart the revitalization and preservation of the surrounding Cathedral Hill neighborhood. The building is a contributing structure in the Historic Hill District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The W. A. Frost Bar and Restaurant remains a popular local business today.
Built between 1869 and 1874, this Romanesque Revival-style church was designed by Joseph Reidel, Erd Schlick, and Bahnholzer for the local German Catholic population, and was constructed out of Lake Superior Limestone. The building is the oldest remaining Catholic church in Saint Paul, and has seen modernization, but few other changes since the 19th Century. Five additional parishes have split off from the church, which remains a distinctive landmark on the city’s skyline. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
On the other side of the Mississippi River behind Saint Paul Union Depot and Lowertown, CPKC J15 is about to make its second trip up Short Line Hill behind the resident GP38AC #3002 leading a generic SD30C-ECO and mixed freight for MNNR and BNSF. On the left is the original 1887 Great Northern Building, James J. Hill's personal office building.
“The most famous home of the first construction boom was the James J. Hill House, built in 1891 in Richardsonian Romanesque style. Owned by James J. Hill, a wildly successful railroad tycoon known appropriately as the “Empire Builder”, the 36,000-square-foot property spans three lots. The 42-room mansion cost Hill $931,275 at the turn of the century (equivalent to around $22 million today). Now owned by the Minnesota Historical Society.
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Built between 1894 and 1902, this Richardsonian Romanesque-style granite building was designed by Willoughby J. Edbrooke to serve as the United States Post Office, Courthouse, and Custom House for St. Paul. The building occupies an entire city block between 5th Street, 6th Street, Washington Street, and Market Street, and sits next to Landmark Plaza, Hamm Plaza, and Rice Park. The exterior of the building features multiple turrets, steeply pitched red tile roofs, multiple wall dormers, and two towers, one of which features a clock. The building has a very simple exterior with few ornately carved details, with the interior being much more grandiose, and featuring a massive five-story atrium, 20-foot ceilings, and extensive use of marble, oak, and mahogany. The building housed the city’s post office and custom house until the larger Eugene McCarthy US Post Office and Custom House was completed on Kellogg Boulevard in 1934, after which it served as the Federal Courthouse until the Warren E. Burger Federal Building and United States Courthouse was completed in 1966. Following the departure of the federal government, the building became unused and endangered, and was threatened with demolition. A local community group fought to preserve the building, with the building being listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 as part of these efforts. The building was restored to its original splendor during the 1970s, and reopened as Landmark Center in 1978, housing multiple arts organizations, and is owned and operated by Minnesota Landmarks, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving historical buildings and sites in the state of Minnesota.
Union Pacific manifest traffic climbing the grade from the Mississippi River hits a snag and stalls out at the switch to the Altoona Subdivision. I noticed a crew onboard a trio of UP units at East Hoffman then saw the blinking EOT device and figured it was a stalled train needing assistance. Sure thing. For my part, this worked out as the train was ideally staged at the junction switch. Unfortunate that the train was stalled out however.
Built in 1890, this Queen Anne and Shingle-style house features a corner tower with a beehive-shaped roof, second-story balconies, attic oriel window, delicate tuscan columns, and a complex roofline with shingle-clad gable ends. The house is a contributing structure in the Historic Hill District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Built in 1889, this Richardsonian Romanesque-style set of rowhouses, clad in brick and rusticated brownstone, were designed by Clarence H. Johnston, Sr. & William H. Willcox. One of the rowhouses, located towards the western end of the row, was inhabited by F. Scott Fitzgerald and his parents between 1918 and 1920. Most of the rowhouses feature stone facades with decorative trim details, arched windows, trapezoidal bay windows, oriel windows, gable parapets, and porches with arched openings. Other rowhouses demonstrate more Renaissance Revival-style features with broad overhanging eaves, shallow oriel windows, and rectilinear windows. The F. Scott Fitzgerald House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and listed as a National Historic Landmark in 1971, with the row being listed as a contributing structure in the Historic Hill District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
I had a lot of work to do this week and wasn't getting out of the house much. But I'd suggested to karenmeyere that we go to Minnehaha Falls park some day when the sun was out. Today was the day ... and she phoned me three times in the morning to say, "Shake a leg!" :-) I'm glad she did.
We both took this shot, so look for hers sometime soon. It was one of those moments when you're shooting other things, then you turn around and go 'whoa!'
It's pretty cool large on black.
Saint-Paul de Vence, Alpes Maritimes, France.
Panasonic Lumix FZ 28
Many thanks to everyone who will pass by visiting my shots. Comments are appreciated. You are welcome. Sergio
Built in 1931, this small Art Deco-style limestone-clad building was designed by Magnus Jemne to house the St. Paul Women's City Club. Located on an irregularly-shaped site at the corner of St. Peter Street and Kellogg Boulevard, the building echoes this condition in its design, with rounded facades that peel away from the street in places, with a more orthogonal base below. The building was sold to the Minnesota Museum of Art in 1972, and now houses an architectural firm. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Built in 1891, this ostentatious Queen Anne-style mansion was built for William W. Bishop (W.W. Bishop), and was later known as Mrs. Porterfield’s Boarding House in 1919, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was revising a novel, and spent quite a bit of time on the porch with friends Donald Ogden Stewart and John D Briggs. The house features an ornate dormer with a decorative gable parapet, a semi-circular two-story bay window, an octagonal tower with gable ends on each side decorated with trim panels, a bracketed cornice, a large porch with classical details, and tall brick chimney stacks. The house is a contributing structure in the Historic Hill District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Place de la Madeleine
Nîmes (30), France.
Construction: 1835-1849
Architect: Charles-Auguste Questel (1807-1888)
Built in 1898, this Venetian Renaissance Revival-style house was designed by Cass Gilbert for Crawford Livingston, president of the St. Paul Gas Light Company. The house features a first-floor loggia-style porch, dormer with Gothic Revival detailing, and an interior that is one of the most notable residential designs by Gilbert. The house is a contributing structure in the Historic Hill District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The Saint Paul Cathedral was approaching it's 100th birthday (June 2-3, 2006) and in honor of the occasion the building, normally dark at night, was lit up.
Hundreds of people came to see the sight, and the whole thing turned into a kind of impromptu lawn party. And just about everybody had a camera. I've never walked through so many other peoples' frames in my life!
Built in 1898, this Medieval Rectilinear-style house with Gothic Revival, Renaissance Revival, and Tudor Revival elements was designed by Clarence H. Johnston, Sr. for William Elsinger, owner of the Golden Rule Department Store. The house features a red tile roof with exposed rafter ends, sandstone walls, a circular corner tower, a front dormer with decorative carved bargeboard, a front bay with a crenellated top, decorative stone trim, a side bay with shingle cladding, a front porch with gothic arches and decorative column capitals, and a semi-circular side bay window. The house is a contributing structure in the Historic Hill District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Built between 1909 and 1915, this Beaux Arts-style cathedral, dedicated to Saint Paul the Apostle, was designed by Emmanuel L. Masqueray and Whitney Warren, and stands prominently atop Cathedral Hill at the intersection of Selby Avenue, Summit Avenue, and Dayton Avenue. The cathedral, the fourth to be the seat of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, replacing an earlier cathedral location on St. Peter Street in Downtown Saint Paul, which had served as the seat of the archdiocese since 1858, and stands on the former site of the Second Empire-style Norman Kittson mansion, built in 1884. The cathedral, the third-largest Catholic church in the United States and the sixth-largest church in the United States, features a large copper dome, granite cladding on the exterior with classical details, and an interior with soaring ceilings and massive stained glass windows. The church is a contributing structure in the Historic Hill District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. In 2009, the church was designated the National Shrine of the Apostle Paul by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Holy See.
The most famous home of the first construction boom was the James J. Hill House, built in 1891 in Richardsonian Romanesque style. Owned by James J. Hill, a wildly successful railroad tycoon known appropriately as the “Empire Builder”, the 36,000-square-foot property spans three lots. The 42-room mansion cost Hill $931,275 at the turn of the century (equivalent to around $22 million today). Now owned by the Minnesota Historical Society.
www.visitsaintpaul.com/blog/summit-avenue-history-the-sto...
Built between 1929 and 1931, this Art Deco-style 32-story skyscraper was designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst, & White to house the offices and headquarters of the First National Bank. The tallest building in Saint Paul between 1930 and 1986, when it was overtaken by the Jackson Tower at Galtier Plaza, the building remains a major local landmark and a signature piece of the city’s skyline. The building has the distinction of the highest skybridge in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, connecting the 17th floor to the adjacent Merchant’s National Bank Building to the east. The building notably features a large “1st” sign with multiple faces atop the roof, which is visible from up to 20 miles away.
Built in 1889, this Richardsonian Romanesque and Renaissance Revival-style building was constructed to house Germania Bank, and was designed by J. Walter Stevens and Harvey Ellis. The last brownstone high-rise building to be constructed in Saint Paul, the building, after the liquidation of Germania Bank, became known by 1902 the Ernst Building, before being known as the Pittsburgh Building by 1907, and the St. Paul Building in 1934. The building was modified with modernized storefronts and other changes throughout the 20th Century. Despite this, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and was restored to its original exterior appearance in the 1980s.