North End, Saint Paul, Minnesota

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Saint Paul Ramsey County

Streets near Jackson St. Shops were named after stations on the Manitoba Railway. They include Atwater, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Wayzata and Litchfield.

This area has many so-called "mechanic's cottages," small homes built to house workers in the Jackson St. railroad shops. Historic buildings in the area include: 820 Park. A good example of a "mechanic's cottage;" Benjamin Stevens home, 1031 Park. Stevens was one of a number of African-American stone masons who were brought from Georgia to cut the marble for the construction of the State Capitol Building. Shortly after a 1992 Union Advocate article about the house, it was torn down by the Public Works Department. Knights of Labor Local Assembly No. 4031, Park and Sycamore Sts. The building, torn down in the 1940s, was one of two K of L buildings in St Paul in the 1880s. 61 Manitoba. In 1893 home to H.F. Connor, master of Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Ackermann Bros saloon, 780 N. Jackson (corner Sycamore St.) Built in 1886, the saloon was patronized by workers from the Jackson Street Shops. Union Advocate article

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This place is part of the Saint Paul Labor History Tour

Buildings in North End, Saint Paul, Minnesota

	#	Street
Ackerman Building, 780 Jackson Street, Saint Paul, Minnesota	780	Jackson	Street
Arvidson Block, 842 Rice Street, Saint Paul, Minnesota	842	Rice	Street
Church of St. Bernard, 187 Geranium Avenue West, Saint Paul, Minnesota	187	Geranium	Avenue	W
Engine Company No. 22, 293 Front Street, Saint Paul, Minnesota	293	Front	Street
Eva McDonald Valesh House, 796 Jackson Street, Saint Paul, Minnesota (Razed)	796	Jackson	Street
Harland Parish House, 1023 Avon Street North, Saint Paul, Minnesota	1,023	Avon	Street	N
Saint Mary Romanian Orthodox Church, 854 Woodbridge Street, Saint Paul, Minnesota	854	Woodbridge	Street