thank you i didn't know i was going to be introduced but i appreciate all of you showing up this afternoon the topic of history the history of north saint paul after one hundred twenty five years is a rather large topic and i'm not trying to cover everything i think you'll find that the majority of my presentation will be about the first actually the first six or seven years of the north st paul from eight hundred eighty seven until about eight hundred ninety three or four i see some well i don't know how to put this maybe i could say luger up here in the front row so if anyone wanted to ask about the lugar's way i think we have an expert right up here and i'm sure he would be he did claim that he's one of the few left so that's that's the truth i believe because there just aren't that many left and for sure god many left in town there may be extended family elsewhere so to start with i'd like to just talk about some of the personalities and  fact that probably the main personality in our talk is henry anson castle he's a man who had a vision and so i want to tell you a little bit abroad henry castle he was born in eight hundred forty one in columbus illinois columbus illinois is near quincy quincy is on the western border of right on the mississippi on the western border west central illinois he graduated from college in eight hundred sixty two where he studied law and in those days last study wasn't as extensive as it is now so you could go to college for a couple years  a good example of that was abraham lincoln who studied law but he didn't even go to college so the requirements weren't weren't quite so strict in those days at the time he graduated from college of course  sixty two that was the time of the civil war civil war was already going on he enlisted in the army and he was in some battles and was wounded one did in the left hand as i understand and so he was taken out of action by that since that time he was captain and rick castle in those days after the war so many of these people who were officers in the in the army you retained their title whatever it might be and usually it was officers who were like to you you wouldn't call yourself private so and so and in civilian life but you would call yourself captain or major or whatever you were and so that's what henry castle did and that's why he was no one ever after as captain henry castle he did move to minnesota and he was having some problems with his lungs he was hammering they called it a hemorrhage of the longs and he needed what he what he needed was a brisk climate so he moved out of illinois came to minnesota and he moved to the nokia area and well he was in an ok he was writing editorials woman named margaret and her father was an officer or owner part owner of the comstock stove company dawning illinois and so henry castle ran a branch office and in minnesota he opened a law office and he couldn't find any record of that so anyway he was in the legislature and he of course developed a number of friendships and usually friendships of people who had some influence and some money probably the majority of the stock in that company and became editor the editor and publisher of the st paul finer pression press or st paul dispatch i should say in eighteen seventy two he was also investing in the land and the land he was interested in was around the silver lake area and it wasn't known much by that time as silver lake in fact nobody called it silver lake it was first of all called these lake and i don't know where that name came from and later they called it folsom lake and folsom i believe was the surveyor of the year so that's how they happen to call it folsom lake i think henry castle is the one who was responsible for changing the name to silver lake one of the people he bought land from was former governor william marshall and  hundred eighty two and so he had a lot of influence and it happened that castle apparently had a lot of influence too because they managed to get the wisconsin central railroad to go right through the center of castle peddling at the time so that was quite a coup to have that road come right through the middle of his property in eight hundred eighty seven castle and as investors and partners were all saint paul business man organized the north st paul land company in the north sample cottage company and course the college company was responsible for the construction and sale of homes and they hired a company called grant construction and george  grant was a very wealthy builder in st paul he had built a number of the impressive buildings in st paul a lot of those homes on some an avenue were built by him  influential and it's kind of strange because the homes that he built in north st paul were rather conservative and we'll see some pictures of those so it's unusual that he would be building homes of that type these were the cottages that they built here his son those are the main partners and they were all as i mentioned were all businessmen and in st paul castle was the only partner who built a home here but it was not his primary residence he built a home up course a lot of these were were political appointments and because of his influence in the republican party he was able to get these positions he served in that washington office until  henry castle was a man of many accomplishments and i was i was i'm always impressed with when i read about him and find out what he accomplished in his life in one nine hundred twelve he published a twelve a two volume set called the history of st paul and vicinity and this was one of those books where i think people paid to have their biographies included in the book so it was a biography list of biographies of many different prominent men never any women course just men in st paul and a number of those included people living in north st paul he was always a promoter of course in our st paul that's w his investments were in one nine hundred thirteen he published of three volume set called minnesota it's story and biography so again more people  were described in that book but he did have a good history of minnesota up to that time it when that set came out we do have a copy of that of those volumes in the in our in our same poll museum so if anyone wanted to see them they could find them there and then he wrote many articles about personal topics in the popular magazines of that time even the saturday evening post and other prominent magazines during that period he was a popular public speaker he especially republican party events he was also a speaker for memorial day an independent state celebrations there was a very good description of his speech hundred sixteen and that was the cornerstone lane for the new high school now that new high school is the one that many of you were a member of that was on the corner of twelfth avenue and helen street and  former school was across the street kitty corner across the street where st mark's church is now and we'll see some pictures of those buildings there are some over here too i should point out that some of these photos or are photos that i have he was one of those early adventurers who was flying around north st paul he was a member of the i think it was the it was a i don't know if it was a national guard or what but done at home and field and they had a unit in there that would fly iran and later he became part of the observation corps over in europe i believe and was flying in observation planes small aircraft that were watching for the enemy over in  europe some of the other pictures are pictures that i i think i pulled those off the internet from the historical society photo albums and there's a map over here also of north st paul in one nine hundred thirty eight that time and each section of town so you can get an idea or see where your property is if you live here in our sample otherwise or some other pictures on the side that may be of interest to you there are some books that i'll be referring to as we go along to so i mentioned that the final appearance that he made was in one thousand nine hundred sixteen and he died a short while after he made that final appearance he made a speech at the corner store in a lane when the tore down the old school i was watching that whole process and i was taking pictures of the whole whole demolition of the the old school and that was i think it was one thousand nine hundred ninety six or seven i can't remember exactly which year but it was interesting watching that come down in fact the last part was when they tore down the original school of the one nine hundred sixteen section and i was there when they took the corner store and out and i found in the corner stone was a box it was it was you know a stone that had a hole drilled in the middle of it and it was inside that hole was a box sheet metal box that was kind of rusty but it was in pretty good shape considering how old it was and in that box were a number of items some newspapers i remember ted and the newspaper that i am st paul newspaper and had the headline was james j hill died the same day or same time as the corner store lane of the of the school so it was interesting seeing that if any of you wanted to see that cornerstone if you go to the district office just inside the doorway there is a  box story a display case i should say that we were able to get the school the school district to install and it has the cornerstone underneath that display case so that you can see and it's mounted on brick from the old school so you can see what that looked like and it shows some pictures of the taken at the corner stone and and it's are nice to have it there or sometimes people just kind of walk by and they don't notice it but if you go in and look at it it's something it's something worthwhile to look at i think another thing that castle did and this is something that i just came upon i don't remember if it was in the building and that was a fad that was going on at the time in the eight hundred eighty s where building would be build a big circular building two stories high and they would have artists make a display of famous battles like the battle of gettysburg whatever else it has whatever other history that people might have been interested in at the time and they could go in this place and stand in the center of it and have a  description made of what that whole display was appalled and so that henry castle got into that he had mr mullard who was a local architect here and tom then i'll be mentioning him later to say he designed this building for henry castle it was located right at the corner of st peter street and six so six then st peter some of you might know what's there now it was on the first south east or south east corner of st peter and six that well that's right  first it was some other building but they tore that down and that's when henry castle put his building in this and this panorama theatre only lasted about two years before it started losing audience they couldn't it's fast now and saw it at last people lost interest in minneapolis at one also and located after after they tore his building dolling they put up  gary opera house or the the grand opera house it was called later on that was changed to the gary clear and so that was the corner that the gary theatre was on that was torn  should add to i was in the gary theatre one time when i was a young boy my dad used to take me d'antoni on saturdays we went there to see the the first frankenstein movie with boris karloff and and it was a double feature you know was the bride of frankenstein besides and the for a young boy at that age it was a spooky experience because that theater was a spooky place it was an old victorian style  theater so they tore that down and made it into a parking ramp that became the garrick parking ramp some of you were a member of that and they tore that down and that's were their loss and building was built and some of you kincaid's restaurant right in that corner that's the building that's the location where this panoramic theater is was located so that's just another started late back to the land company they planted about thirty five hundred lots and graded twenty four miles of streets they set aside one hundred fifty acres for factories along the railroad on each side of the railroad to the northwest magazine from march of eight hundred eighty eight that was a year after the tone was founded had an article a long article and this is a copy of the northwest magazine and that was the first page of it over the cover and it's about a nine or ten page article just about north st paul with these line drawings you'll see these line drawings all over in different locations you when they talk about north st paul they usually show these line drawings that were made the story behind that that is we didn't have a copy of this until one day i got a call from people a from the maplewo climatologist for the state you'll hear his name mentioned all the time because whenever the news stations want some information they all go to peter people a to get this information he gave me a call said that he was what he was looking at and he phoned the northwest magazine with his article about north st paul and i really hadn't had known about it and so he he said well do you want me to bid on it and i said well sure we'd like to get it if we could night he said i tell much  did i said what twenty dollars us was i didn't know what to say and so he he did any he got it for sixteen dollars so we i feel i feel pretty lucky and indebted to pete for finding that magazine because it's this is of course not the original but the original is in the museum and we have a pretty well preserved also anyway that that was a special gift from people lay in the north st paul or the northwest magazine in hundred eight reported that there were two hardware stores this is the year again you're after the town was fond of there were two hardware stores for grocery stores to dry goods stores one book and stationery three mart meat markets for saloons naturally true drug stores and two hotels and then there was a north st paul sentinel newspaper there was also a one lumber yard a brick yard they manufactured bricks and it was up on the school grounds where the soccer  now on market street that was a brick yard and there were six boarding houses there were six churches a presbyterian church st mark's lutheran church congregational methodist  i didn't really understand the methodist episcopal combination but that was pretty common in those days and it still exists i think german lutheran church a german presbyterian church some of you may know of that church it's on the corner of fourteenth and helen st it's up on the hill on the north west corner it's that house that's on that northwest corner that was the original german presbyterian church and then two years st peter's catholic church the catholic church didn't have a location until they bought the the the congregational church currently there are weren't enough congregationalists around so they they gave up their church for the catholic church right up on almost on the site where they're located now the factories were moved furniture which was the original probably of the first factory built here in north st paul and the biggest the st paul iron company which saddle remade bridles and saddles for for those with horses and practically everyone if they had anything to transport themselves it was a horse the harris manufacturing which made her h eroes bobsleds grading tools and fencing in the union iron works the enterprise manufacturing which was the pfluger fishing tackle company you've heard of fluker fishing tackle perhaps in from i think akron ohio and they had a branch near there they built a brand here making fishing tackle the st paul casket company which also was called as a north st paul cast company minnesota manufacturing which later became standard conveyer company and the brick company another important force in north st paul was the sentinel newspaper charles mckinney was the was the owner and publisher and he was an interesting fellow to he didn't realize that december of eight hundred eighty seven the official notice of application the ramsey county by william newman for a license to sell intoxicating liquors so that was the first liquor license in north st paul and it was issued by the colony because north st paul wasn't incorporated at that time so it had to be a county application i also look for humorous stories and some of you may be aware of the fact that a lot of the carpenters in st paul area at that time and even later were swedish a lot of swedish carpenters and i thought i kind of got a kick out of one because it described a major rudolph disaster now he called themselves major i talked to one of his relatives in the current day and he said that wasn't true he was actually a private but he boosted his prestige i think by giving himself the title of major he had a feed store at the corner of margaret and six that avenue he also built a livery stable two stories high in ten december twenty fourth paper noted he died so he didn't have that very long his wife took it over apparently because there was a later in the what telling talking about her and how her building was located on too far on to margaret street and she had to move it back so i thought that was interesting it's amazing how many people moved to buildings in those days and i was surprised at that because i did think they would have the ability to move but it seemed that buildings were being moved all the time mr mckenny for thirty five years was serving as the unrolling clerk of the house of representatives in washington d c so after he left the newspaper when he was continuing that  job especially when the republicans were in power he was a strong republican and i'll give you some examples of that during his absence the contents of the paper were less interesting and i phone he always had included things that were a little more interesting he sold the sentinel to granville trace in one thousand no seven so he got out of the newspaper business at that time but he was a very outspoken republican as i mentioned from lake city minnesota he never to hesitated to express his view and sometimes during elections he would print only information about the republican candidates he would never anything about the democrats and i thought well he tried to get away with that nowadays  one of his comments in an article said vote the straight republican ticket and and see that your friends do the same at the time of his death in one thousand thirty seven mckinney was president of the first date first sta bank in north st paul the fellow who took over trace made some changes when he was very successful and but he held on to the paper until one nine hundred fourteen after his time there was a great deal of mismanagement with the newspaper so that caused its failure by nine hundred nineteen and so was out of business for a time and then one hundred twenty charles rogers took over and named the paper the paper in one thousand thirty eight and i still remember going i was a friend of ted lilly's son the younger ted and he's not so young anymore but i remember going with him into the newspaper office and going back to see his dad and his dad was always running the liner type but it was always an interesting paper in those days because they always had a lot of local noise and a lot of local points of interest that that made it interesting another thing that was happening in one thousand nine hundred eight was the incorporation they decided the tone fathers decided that they needed to get organized so this editorial from the paper and apparently was written by mr mckinney on thursday of next week occurs the election to decide whether or not north st paul will be incorporated and become a place wholly and s controlled by her residence or be under the dictation of the city of st paul to incorporate means the wisconsin central car shops will be located here that was always there whole and in fact the chilled up on those picture maps that we have of the to show the wisconsin central car shop since that started disappearing on the map after an eight hundred eighty nine when they finally decided that wasn't going to happen our taxes will be late we will receive a large income from various sources that continue to contiguous property or territory will help period for the improvements we can have ample fire and police protection and our local affairs will be in the hands of our own people so that was his editorial promoting this election and the election was held on thursday of that week notwithstanding the severity of the weather of blinding storm of snow blowing the entire day and filling the tone with huge drifts two hundred twenty one votes were polled and all of the votes were for incorporation so it did succeed following that was the election of officers for the newly incorporated village and that was held at the morton house in february one thousand nine hundred eight to elect  officers a president who was the mayor trustees a treasurer a recorder two justices of the peace and two constables in that election charles r mckinney was elected mayor on february second remember that date february second february fourteenth was the first meeting of the village consul and the first ordinance was passed i think and you might be able to guess what that ordinance was concerning an ordinance relating to the licensee and sale of spiritual and malt liquors was passed a motion was made and seconded that saloon keepers be notified to appear before the consul on tuesday evening next at seven thirty zero clock at the sentinel office make application for a zent their bonds and be prepared to turn over the five hundred dollars as indicated elsewhere in these columns five hundred dollars i was surprised at that moment that seemed like a lot for that day soon after the first election for consul however a mistake was made or was discovered not long before this election a new election law passed in minnesota i don't know if they didn't hear about it all the way out nor st paul what but required tha municipalities hold elections on the second tuesday in march so the election was invalid so that console was all it and they had another election was held in march and almost all the people that won the election previously greenlee became mayor and most of the others were businessmen in our st paul the first village consul served only a month and a half so that must have been very disappointing except that dr gre was also republican so that means they have taken some of the some of the disappointment away from mckinney another thing that was happening after a few fires the need to establish a fire department was seen in a village hall with jail and space for a fire department was proposed the original site for that was supposed to be on third avenue and fourth that was decided later not to be the best site so they decided to put it over in the main street over near where the old city hall was and they bought a lot from the land company and the land company donated another lot for the new city hall and d the architect that i mentioned previously was hired to prepare plans for the city hall his price was two percent of the total cost he would also supervise construction and be paid fifty three dollars for that the cost would be approximately twenty five hundred dollars so mr malard did make a lot of money on that and i'll show you a picture of that a little bit later to emphasize the need for a jail in july hundred eighty eight this article was in the paper the the disgraceful rows in our village last saturday calls for the a media direction of a jail building so mr mckenny was getting word in on that and by september eighth the city hall was nearing completion and from outward experience perience of his will be a credit to all concerned and they added anthony early it was the first border at the jail because drunkenness and five  hard earned money went to swell the village treasury on account there of so they even they didn't hesitate to mention names the town hall was officially finished in november so mr early was was early other events and actions that were taking place at the time the purchase of land for a cemetery was another action the cause consul took the consulate accepted the report of the cemetery committee and purchased five acres of ground located one half mile north of town this is a beautiful site for the purpose high commanding a fine view of white bear lake that may surprise some and the surrounding country is accessible by good roads during all seasons of the year and is in every respect a most desirable site for a city of the dead they had in quotations the price was seven hundred thirty two dollars with an option to buy an additional five acres for three years at the same price that's lakeview cemetery and lot of people of people have asked me why they call it a lake you can't see a lake from there apparently in that day there weren't as many trees growing between white bear lake and the cemetery and so you could actually see the lake from lake view area and that became the tone cemetery that was before i think before you know you had to be before st mary's cemetery was built in in north st paul at this time also there were signs of a coming economic depression in hundred nine this article appeared and and i should say that mr mckenny was always very positive he always tried to put the positive side to things other than if there was something about democrats well business depression is nearly prostate in many older and larger places during the past year north st paul has gone on and prosperity has marked from one end of the town to the other the progress under the circumstances being a subject of record from all who visit us we are on the upgrade and each day passed will prove to us that we have made no mistake in north st paul let us talk of and for our town and thus prove our faith in its a liberty permanency and growth the crooks and deadbeats are leaving and no st paul is settling down as a solid substantial tone the near do wells and grumblers the non producers and leeches will soon follow no question about his feelings he ended with a happy contented people are laying the foundation for wealth and continued prosperity still there was another good example of the writing in the newspaper that  another example which is kind of maybe depressing for some was a comment that was published it was actually an article that was published in the st paul daily nudes and it said unlicensed dogs numbering eight thousand have been picked up that this is in st paul the dogs caught and remained uncalled for for twenty four hours or placed in an iron cage and drowned in the river at the foot of chestnut street  and then to show a lack of sensitivity i guess added by the sentinel editor the absence of a large number of dogs probably accounts for the low price of bologna sausages this season  some some laugh at that i guess don't they i don't think they'd get away with that these days that's something that wouldn't work in another comment in the paper and i found this to be interesting was  oyster dinner at the churches or at the morton house hotel it was amazing i didn't realize that people were that interested in oysters another ad in the paper twenty pounds of prunes for one dollar a sleeper and son's goodness sakes that's a lot of another article from that time keane brothers she i wonder if that's any relation our mayor doesn't doesn't want us to admit it i think ponies stirred up the usual quietude quietude of margaret street last tuesday morning by starting from in front of the market the meat market was right across from the central building which was right on the corner of what's now supple of boulevard and market street so it would have been right across the street from where city hall is now last tuesday morning by starting from in front of the market and running pell  mell to the south limits of the town the way again required the services of a blacksmith for a short time the horses were uninjured but the ire of the butcher was great there's another another item i came upon and i wasn't going to mention these things but since mayor keane is here i thought us people would be interested to hear ian that i think his name was william keene was later on the city console and he was running the meat market and he was cited for butchering cattle on his premises when he didn't have the the permit to do that and i don't know whatever happened i don't know if it was punished or not but it was kind of interesting in that he  was on the console but he was he was criticized for for slaughtering animals on his property later on course we know some of us know that that was happening at other markets in tone and we'll show you a picture of another meat market in town a little bit later by eight hundred eighty nine there was announcement of an of an ordinance to allow construction of a railroad over in along the streets and alleys of the village of north st paul to be to be granted to lane stone and walter morton so the two of those founders again got involved in the in the street railway which we called the street car and then in september they called for a vote to bond for twenty two thousand dollars to build this railroad within the city limits from the city limits of st paul to nor st paul and then by eighteen in november of one thousand nine hundred nine must have been a mild winter like we're having they had completed about two miles of the north st paul railroad and over that it was graded at least far and then by the end of december graders were working near helen street in our st paul so it was moving fast by june of that next year hundred ninety one or same fall railroads began running regular trains the time card provides for fourteen wrongs trip wrong trip daily wrong trips daily so range s to accommodate the public as well as possible to do the citizens of this village have so far shown themselves willing to encourage this enterprise by patronizing it liberally that that ted a definite effect on the wisconsin central that previously wisconsin central was the way that people could take the train into st paul however that train brought them to the union depot and if anyone worked up on the other side a tall and it was not very convenient so it became more popular to take the street car because that could take you all the way through it many different areas of st paul then to go on by eight hundred ninety two or the streetcar line was being extended  enter a number of tracks were were laid to businesses that carried freight besides passengers i was surprised at that the original train street cars were steam powered apparently and so some changes were coming in that line to it which i'll mention also showing that the hard times were coming bank foreclosures were becoming more common if you notice bank foreclosures are on here in the past few years have really increased  by eight hundred ninety two the land company had foreclosed on over ten mortgages and a positive thing was that plans were underway to build well would amuse them a park by a stone and morton again by those two and some of you will remember the wildwood amusement park i'm i'm of course too young to remember but there may be some people here will hold enough i know there are in eight hundred ninety one this is another sign mr castle and mr stone made an attempt to get st paul the annex or st paul to st paul and to take on the twenty two thousand dollar debt st paul would be united and you could tell that by the fact that that if you look at seventh avenue in north st paul and look at the map of st paul it almost lines up directly with seventh avenue and st paul so you can see where they might have been thinking well eventually this road is going to go all the way through and we're going to be come part of st paul but this was also a sign that that the that the city was in more trouble than they had been previously hundred two a street car would be converted to electric power and extend the white bear lake so if it eventually did go all the way all the way to wait for a lake it went to wildwood park and then one line went over toward the west over to white bear to downtown whitebread lake another line went all the way out to stillwater and stillwater did have a streetcar line that was just in stillwater previously but the headline failed and so now this one brought street cars to stillwater will remember the power house that was actually it became the last use they made of it was a public utility building for st paul located right on the site we're standing know it was right on this location so they tore that down to when they built the community center on this side of the street railway name was changed to the st paul and white bear railroad as soon as they electrified so they lost the name the north st paul street car line last set name of in one thousand nine hundred two a city council took action to study the advisability of light in the village with a selectric city and that population at that time was listed as twenty five hundred people in eight hundred ninety three there was another interesting piece people in north st paul had and that was to  go to the world's fair in chicago some of you remember reading about this before it was called the the colombian exposition in chicago if anyone's interested i would recommend the book the devil in the white city by erik larson he wrote about the chicago world's fair and also talked about murders that were taking place around the same time they were billed in the fair it's very interesting and i it's kind of gruesome too but this is a fellow who i think he was a doctor and he was committing these murders right near the fair site and so this author blended the the murders in with this construction of the fair some of you maybe you are aware too that some of those buildings are still standing and they're not as they were during the fair but i think the the museum is it called again the field museum you know was part of the colombian exposition so if you go to chicago where the science and industry main seem to may have been part of that the original buildings were just kind of a plaster facing on them they weren't considered to be permanent but these buildings did stay and there the they give you a glimpse of what it looked like your house or good company in our st paul was part of the minnesota display at the world's fair so your st paul head of a role in that and at the time an article came out said it it is estimated that the lowest possible cost of a ten day visit to the world's fair exclusive of railroad fee is twenty five dollars and fifty cents that's ten days seems impossible but they also insist included that the wisconsin central rate to the chicago fare was thirteen dollars and seventy five cents roundtrip so it was certainly a bargain the panic of eight hundred ninety three came and of course we were leading up to that for a number of years a number of businesses in nor paul had failed by that time some kept on going and they kept making a profit and so they were able to keep moving this panic of eight hundred ninety three was marked by the collapse of railroad overbuilding that was part of the part of the reason for it that had to do with the with the way that money was funded at the time you can with some comparisons i suppose to what we have today  situation we're in today there was a ten percent in unemployment for over five years in certain areas it was even worse in the northern pacific union pacific and other railroads failed at that time fifteen thousand companies failed and five hundred banks failed and the last item that i was going to quote from the newspaper this is on the front page of the sentinel and apparently this is written by mr mckinney editorial on the front with this issue the sentinel begins another year of its existence in the future as in the past we will work to the best of our ability to build up north st paul and advance these things most needed for the material prosperity of our people politically the course will not be changed as a step from republican ism to democracy democracy is a step backward and the grand old party of progress and reform is good enough for us as it has been for more than twenty years we have an abiding faith in north st paul we believe there will be builded here and that's the word of the day a prosperous city and have confidence in the plan so well made and others to be promulgated later for the benefit and advancement of this suburban wonder let us as a people work together in unison and harmony and the future will prove we have made no mistake in selecting a home for ourselves and for our children so it was a nice article for the most part and very positive but he couldn't he couldn't resist getting some digs in obviously i don't know if you have any questions right now that that's as far as i want to talk about there's so much material that this could go on for hours and hours and i don't want to do that i realize that people have limits and and i have my limits too so i do have a number of slides that i wanted to show this photos from in the distance you can see that cars are parked in the middle there's a boulevard in the center of the street and that's the way things were arranged at the time the traffic moved in the along the curb in on each side of the street and they parked cars in the middle looking at this picture this is lost in grocery this building on the corners where candles used to be that's what was called the locker building that was a number of just different businesses at one time it was a it was a grocery store it was a bar several times it was a bar it was also a speakeasy during the one nine hundred thirty s i understand from some older residents it burned about four buildings on the main street and they had water problems at the time they ended up getting water from the luger furniture company they had t tower a sister to sister and i think and they had to pump water from there there's another view you can see what now is the corner the corner to the polar lounge at that in this location there was a big tree later on that was that became the location for ford's drug store and now is the pharmacy antiques next to that was a barber shop that was it also went up the street it didn't go beyond the four buildings but all of the other buildings were under threat because of the winds that were blowing at the time this is a current feel of that same place this is the location there where clarence sprayed more and built his hardware store off after the fire because his hardware store burned and this is the insurance building now that was where movers grocery was show that well this one shows the bakery that's druce nelson who is the baker and in the right behind him you see the head of jim miller who own the shoe store people came in and they they volunteered to take all of this stuff  down the street and unfortunately at the shoe store especially they they took bundles or hands arms full of shoes and dump them out in the street and all the shoes got mixed up so that they were all blended together and nobody knew what fair was where and so it created a lot of problems for miller shoe store at the time also there was doria bought the young kids who were trying to steal bakery this is not part of the fire i think this is a separate picture that happened to get tied in they thought it was a fire but it was just somebody somebody stole flight that was smoking at the time and next to that was the hushed family lived in this in the building on the right that was a blacksmith shop at one time to later on this became the site of the village pizza that's where the that's where the pizza place is no other picture of the of the fire this was the this was the barber shop the post office was behind the barber shop this is the luger grocery this was this what the sign up there says nor hardware but clarence springboard had just purchased that i believe at the time and then it burned and then this was the goes which i believe but another view of the fire there wasn't much they could do at the time because of the shortage of water this is an ellis trace in showing charles street and seventh avenue the the building right in the center is the martin house hotel in the background is the annex to it which was the kitchen for the hotel when they tore down the hotel in one thousand nine hundred seven this building stayed in place and they made it into a home later on property behind the school bus garages the old school bus garages this show is silver lake it's actually the bay where the swimming beach is and it shows across the bay was a good siebel for that property you can see the property goes up quite a ways and that's where swan avenue is now and this is looking north across the bay with us i mean beach is now located this house was captain henry castles residence on the corner of of henry street and one thousand eight thousand oh this is the actual picture of the home it was a victorian summer cottage very nice it would have been nice to have that wrong now but unfortunately wasn't to be this is a farm that was located right near where jose park is and it may have been part of the property that jose's the front housing family owns this house was the home of the they didn't worry too much about lawns and those days we didn't have the machines that we have today this house ever one might recognize it's the mckinney home that was mr kenyon the publisher of the newspaper and first mayor short time mayor of course so this is the home up on eighteenth and margaret street recently was repainted on the exterior it's a beautiful home a victorian home and some of the some of the decorative items are missing from it of course but that happens over the years i was just happy that they restored it and painted it notice the barn in the back many of these places had post it's probably cast iron and it's kind of fun to see this is another picture of some of the homes that they were actually luger homes i think this is this is a example of some of the cottage homes that were built there are three of them here and the the corner is eighth avenue and entered street so if you go up there and look toward the north from that intersection you can still see these homes one of them recently was restored and he's doing a nice job on restoring the one on the corner i remember when john luger the second lived in the home that's the third one up i think so he was still living when i was growing up in that it in that neighborhood this home was a typical home that was built by the cottage company fellow named osborn and later sold to ernst right if who is the owner of the casket company there again you see there wasn't much yard maintenance in the on the left side of the picture just over that portrait of you concede the water tower that used to be up on eight hundred thousand on in the middle of the block that's where the that's where the only water tower was in our st paul at the time until they built the one down and t park there is the home today those folks did a great job of restoring this home and they're still in the process of doing it it's a labor of love and it's very expensive to do but they are doing a great job of researching and making sure that everything is in line in the foreground you can see the garden that they uncovered there was a rock garden there was a pool and they restored that rock garden and they have a pump pumping water through it and it's really worth looking at and they'd they're not they don't object if you go and look at the rock garden this house is an interesting one because it's on the corner there was on the corner of twelfth and margaret this is that two stor house that was changed from this look to stucco and they put a porch on the front of it it was really in bad shape in the finally that was torn down last year so this was a  businessman in our st paul but it was a beautiful place right on the corner and and it was just a single lot there this house is still standing up on the corner or pond or kill place it's in bad shape this building is the kennel club that was on the north shore of silver silver lake it was built to attract people people with influence people wanted to board their dogs it was boarding and breeding location for dogs  quite a quite a large building in that the site is still open up there there's nothing on that location right now and they ran into some drug troubles after a couple years they apparently were not taking care of animals they apparently had lost their membership and and the dogs were being abused and they were forced out of business so it's kind of a sad story and i don't know when that was torn down i didn't see any information about that on the lower right corner you can see the steamboat that used to travel on silver lake they would take people from the from the pier where the pier is now and on a cell sure take it around take a moron for rides and tours and take passengers up to the kennel club this is a building on fourth avenue that was the whole of dr cohen at the time this is just a group of ladies in the left foreground is pauline lawson and she was the the wife of  sad story to it because the depot built the first year the town was founded and it was brick construction beautiful rough lines you can see on the left there was a men's waiting room on the right was a woman's waiting room they didn't want to mix the two you can see that they're waiting for the train to take it into st paul it was on the north side of the track so that's where it would pick up passengers on the north side that burned down in one thousand and eleven unfortunately was hit by lightning and they did not rebuild it they started using the freight depot which was on the other side of the tracks the freight depot was what some of you might remember as a depot with the last people in our st paul and that was moved out to the fairgrounds you can still see it until a couple years ago we got the fair board to approve of putting the name in our st paul on the end of the depot so that's that is marked as in our sa know this shows the view from the from the east looking west and on the left side you can see the freight people and on the right was the regular people in the background you can see the helen street always remember there's this was a trestle type bridge whenever a car went across it sounded like thunder you could hear that thunder all over town so they lost that when the when they built the school when they added onto the athletic fields this is done out of the view of the south end of silver lake this is the freight depot which later became the depot in the background you can see the piano factory on the left side this is another view from the northwest magazine showing that the not a very accurate view it looks like there were mountains in the background but i think that's the this idea of some sunlight coming through clouds shows the morton house hotel and you can see a picture of the morton palace hotel in the center of the red framed picture on the table over there that was the main hotel in town they tore that down in one nine hundred eleven also this is an example of workers and their furniture company this is another view from the eight hundred eighty eight northwest this is the piano factory you notice all this coming out of chimneys that was to show prosperity that's what they that's what they did i mean nowadays you wouldn't want to see that but those days everyone wanted to show all prosperous they were standard conveyer company which started out as the manufacturers minnesota manufacturers association you can see the slide that's the slide that eventually made it up to silver lake that was their fire escape i guess it was a problem for them for the for them sometimes because the kids i was like to climb up that and then slide down when it was on the building look or furniture company we have a lot of liquor furniture out of museum so this is a big organization and i think there were probably at one time i think there are over thirty look or family members working there  here's the interior view is just a drawing i had toured that building before they tore it just before they tore it down it was interesting to do that and i wish i had had a camera that could take inside pictures i didn't have a flash on my camera so i didn't get any insight pictures but it was fun to see how that whole planet was powered by those overhead belts and wheels it was interesting because in that picture you can see there there aren't any guards no guards on anything i mean there were safety wasn't really something that they were concerned about and there were a number of comments in the paper about people of workers at the different factories gated figures cut off their hands cut off and  they used the newspaper who seem to like to report those things this is the enterprise building and that's where they made the the fishing lords and a lot of buildings would put towers on there on the top other view of the this is a group of workers i think at the this is at the piano factory can see a piano on the left side back and musta been in the forty's maybe once one of the workers walked out of this building and streetcar came right by that entry or that exit door and he was killed by a street car he just walked out apparently and look what do you worry is going in  streetcar was coming at the same time this is a picture of the brickyard up where the high school is or where the school used to be this is a blaze wom working at twenty one piano is apparently at the factory look at look at mercantile was where the city hall is now the logos were all related in some way these were cousins and believe of the other the moving furniture factory this is a power house for the street car company when they when they electrified the streetcar lines they built this power homeless and this huge chimney to generate power and so that was something that lasted until they built the community center and they had to tear this down because it's kind of a shame because it was kind of an interest in a nice looking building at the time although as it was going downhill fast at the time this is right at the corner of supple of all of art and first with piano companies took i remember that burned down in one nine hundred fifty three was a spectacular fire i watched the water tower fall through the building i think a night watchman was the only fit in that fire most was handled through his days you can see sides of beef hanging right out in the open and you get if you saw that counter the front of the counter has blood and fat dripping down the front so people live through it this is a picture of the original nomen bar which is the building that's right next door i'll show you another a modern picture of that they built another one in i think it was nine hundred eleven when they put the built the new bar and moved everything over here's a picture of the full throttle that was the original nomen bar and you can see the current moment bar on the right this is a picture of the bank building original bank i was on the corner were shanker of where the where the kanji catering is now they moved it up where they built a new bank in one nine hundred twenty two i believe this is the original bank building now it's a shame it was a liquor store a different times it was north liquor before the lord of the liquor built up were lol this pharmacy is now full of pharmacy right next to that was a springboard this is the picture of the actual shoe store in our st paul later that became the st paul courier building union crimi it was clear where he was downtown but i have a feeling that this is the same building as this one i think they must have moved it gone because everything looks identical to it look at all the trim on that building and then look at this one it's practically the same i don't have proof st paul bread company was delivering bread to the lost and grocery the early street car or st paul line that's the exterior of the grocery think about lawson grocery is that they melt lawson was a good photographer he used to take a lot of pictures and so there are more pictures from lost in grocery than any other business in town i believe people going on to the street car notice quite a step up no handicap to law and said all this is joe miller's hearse pretty fancy in that day this is a street car accident happened right near the sentinel building which is on the corner of supply and margaret street later became this that building became the north st paul cleaners was the owner of a he was a mayor for a short time and they they named the street after him i always felt it should have been called trolley boulevard because that was the place where the trolleys ran and as i understand they didn't run it down the main street because they were afraid that street cars would scare the horses so they ran out so the worst looking part of nor seen fall the back of back up all of the businesses where the old out houses were and all the other outbuildings chrysler their church german those are in church that was the first one this is the street car coming around past standard conveyor you notice that the tree the train and a street car never went over the hill i mean it wonder on the side of the hill so arrive i don't think it was taken in or st paul looks like it was maybe up on somebody's have a go someplace like that this is the first north saint marks of their church on it and it's still standing on the corner of much except they've covered up a lot of the windows the church type windows this is the morton house hotel and you can see a picture of that over there as i mentioned this is very early presbyterian church there was a thirteenth avenue of the building is still there but it's now i think it was changed into a duplex or a fourplex i'm not sure how many apartments there this was the original catholic church that they bought from the congregationalists on the right side you can just see i think what was the rectory for the church and that's the one of the building that's up on the corner of  market street and seventeenth out in the north east corner for sale right now this is a fraternal hall it was the original it was called pioneer hall a lot of fraternal organizations would meet in this building and in fact my mother graduated from high school in one nine hundred fifteen graduated in that building my folks used to talk about how they would have seen parties they would have parties in that building neighborhood and people would get tossed on that stairway of what that was on the side of that building you could see the outline of the stairway the still there partly some parties got a little wild later on it was called home or the foreground the virginal fire department was a chemical company and i think they had chemical companies because because they didn't have water they didn't have water mains and so it was just easier to put out fires with chemicals became the whole most of the weber family they moved down after they were there and they were going to build a new city hall on nineteen twenty three they moved this building down the street so it's now located right across the street from  well almost across the street from the only printing so if you can still see that building with the i grow i brought a window in the front of this is the building you might recognize that that roof line and how the windows show us through without a tower on the knowledge course most of the towers were rotted away this is the building today this is the city hall that was built one thousand twenty three it was a library on the left side of the and the city government was on the right side the city clerk was upstairs on the right and so that was used for city meet meetings and other occasions and the fire department was downstairs on the right side this picture was taken early so you could see look or furniture company in the background it shows margaret street and it's looking south and margaret there was some kind of a parade going on must have been fourth of july or something like that everyone's dressed up and they're walking up to twelfth avenue and so that's where the exit ramp is now for highway thirty six off on to try to market street looks like the park was and there's a central park at the time and the the park wasn't finished at all this is an example of the main street again you can see the traffic running on each side and then there's a middle of median and they had a little park there must been a memorial park and they had a couple machine guns in there i thought that the cannon was originally at this location too but doesn't show in this picture later those machine guns were moved up to the central park where the cannon was originally or where we remember it this is a switchboard showing upstairs and in the building where the dentist office and all of the colored dental building and that's on the corner of margaret and seventh avenue on the southwest corner they were up on the second floor the show is the original school i think they tore this don about nineteen twenty two or so they still have the elementary classes we need in that four or four time after the school was built across the street this is a nineteen forty picture of the main street you can see kaufman's clothing store department store was called and that's the original no