Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-31
BUILDING,
A GREAT CITY
ST. PAUL IN 1881.
A Splendid Record.
1900 Buildings Erected.
Figures That Count.
Nearly Five and a half Million in Build
ing improvements.
MANY PALATIAL STRUCTURES. |
Surprising Anything Heretofore At
tempted in This Region.
PROSPECT OF THE FUTURE
Indicate Still More Rapid Progress
Than i'm the Past.
PROSPECT OF THE FUTURE
Indicate Still More Rapid Progress
Than i'm the Past.
4 YEARS RECORD IN DETAIL,
Which Shows the Vast Investmen is
and Work Accomplished,

The former visitor to st. Paul, who
has been absent for years would
require guide if he should call again.
While much of the city has changed,
from Jackson street down to Dayton Bluff,
a very marvel has been accomplished.
What was not an uninviting bog or
swamp was high bluff overlooking all
that region of country for miles about.
1t requires vivid imagination to
suppose that anything but hill and
swamp woald ever occupy that
territory. To inspect the locality at pre-
sent and see the hundred foot bluff re-
moved, and on the level base mammoth
business blocks erected, the finest in the
city, to behold the swamp filled with
earth, gridironed by railroad ira cks, with
the finest finished railroad depot in the
country, and dotted with mammoth
warehouses, would almost lead one to
suppose that veritable Alladin with his
wonderful lamp had been invoked
to secure this wonderful transformation.
To witness, at this midwinter time. the
masons engaged in laying brick walls and
plastering, the busy workmen excavtin g
or removing remnants of the bluff to fill
the remaining vacant spaces with other
mammoth edifices, tells its own story of
the young but prosperous community,
which has planted itself upon this favored
spot
There is no better criterion of the solid
ity and growth of city than the fact
that capitalists stand ready to invest in
permanent and palatial buildings. The
record of the past year develops an
abiding faith sn ST. Paul. The buildings
erected not only exceed in number any,
thing heretofore seen in a single wear
but in cost and magnifcence many
will compare with the finest structures
in the country. No one can go about
st. Paul and entertain the slightest donbt
of her brilliant future. The queen CITY of
the upper Mississippi, she is growing to be
giant financially and commercially.
and sways scepter which is commen-
surate to her proud position. As much
as has been done the current year tour
of the architects offices develops the fact
that there are still greater triumphs in
store for St. Paul in 1882. Last wear the
buildings numbered 729, aggregating
a cost of $2,7s9, ,944. This wear thew
number 200, and the improvements ag-
gregate S. A., ,751. Though this gain is
great, the record of 1882 will show a
larger increase over 1881, than 'sl shows
over 1880.
Some idea of the magnitude of the
business blocks erected can be formed
from the fact that computation shows
that the new buildings erected this wear
for the purpose of wholesaling alone con.
tain space equal to twenty acres. If we
can continue to add twenty acres of
wholesale business annually for fifteen or
twenty years, the jobbing trade of st.
Paul will have reached stalwart proper
tions
Ihere haYe been in the nature of public
improvements ten and one half miles of
'streets graded, at an expense of s1o7, ,234
and eleven and half miles of sidewalks
built at cost of s2l,O51.5s. Sewers