St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-31
A Record That Is Highly
Entertaining, Valuable
and Suggestive,
Showing Greater Progress In St.
Paul In 1884 Than In Any
Other City Of The
Country.
An Earnest That the Empire City Of
the Northwest Stands Pre-Emi-
nent and Without a Rival.

The last half OF The year 1884 has been
weighed down by depression and stagnation
the country over, and st. Paul has suffered
with the rest, but, if under circumstances so
adverse to the general prosperity, city can
erect within its boundaries in the 36e days
which compose the year, ., 562 business and
residence buildings at total cost Of
$9,045, 100, one can well pause to wonder
what might have been had the times favored
our urban population. The most sanguine
of our citizens did not expect TO see the
figures reach those of 1883, but they will be
surprised to be made aware of the fact that
the value OF the labor aud capital represented
in the structures erected in 1884 is more than
nine millions of dollars, and there is room
here for a suggestion on the word value.
''Hard times" means cheapDess, and what
this year cost niue millions would last have
cost not less than ten. In other words, the
magnificent buildings which were this year
added to adorn the city and increase ITS
material wealth were in every in stance erected
for less money than would have been posi-
bic in 1883. But even if there were no
stringency, such record of growth would
this continent of the population Of 81. Paul
that in either 1882 or 1883 made so remark
able showing, and there are not ten
cities of the United States, Of all sizes, that
this year put so much wealth into their
buildings.
SCOPE OF THE WORK.
The hammer and the saw of the carpen-
ter have been heard in every direction, and
every one of the six wards has made q rec7
ord of which IL may well be proud. The
Fourth ward with goo buildings estimated at
$4,000, 400, leads the list both in number
and vaiue. Many elegant residences have
been erected on st. Anthony hill and else
where, and the number Of costly business
blocks is large. The second ward, in which
il located the great Ryan hUtel,. and which is
devoted almost exclusively TO business and
manufacturing buildings, erected only ia
structures of all sorts, but their value is esti-
mated at 50, 40, 400. The Fifth ward covers
a very large territory, and the total of its
residences, bu sness blocks, etc, was GA,
valued at 81 ,271, 200. The Seventh street
viaduct will cause still greater activity on
Dayton Bluff and vicinity in 1885. The
First ward, the great wholesale district of the
city. erected but 211 buildings, but to
state that their cost was 81, 1879, 900 is TO
give the reader an idea of the vast amount
Of money represented In each of them. The
Third ward put $193. 400 into 1873 buildings.
most of them handsome business blocks anG
roomy tenements. The 434 structures of every
kind ererted in the Sixth ward: represent
1857, 300. Ii is expected that the Sixth, with
levee, a brace of railroads, a couple of
bridges, the extension of the water works and
fire apparatus to that locality, will have
boom IN building operations in 1885 greater
than ever before known. As an indication
of coming events, one needs only to point TO
the marked activity in real estate in all
parts o. the ward. The walls of brick that
viii arise from the dust on Dakota avenue
In 1885 will ill the bosom of the oldest In
habitant with surprise
CHARACTER AND PURPOSES.
The character and purposes Of the build
lngs have been as varied as the increasing
population have required. Among those for re-
ligious purposes may be mentioned the Epis-
copal mission chapel and residence on Rice
street. Calvary chapel ON st. Anthony hill.
the Grand avenue mission chapel, the addition
to Plymouth church, st. Francis CHURCH Oh
West Seventh, St. Patrick's on Mississippi.
Trinity Lutheran on Wabashaw, the Lutheran
chapel on Stevens, the German Methodist
church on Concord, the German Baptist On
George. the German Lutheran on East Sey-
enth and the addition to Woodland Park
Baptist church. The school buildings altered.
repaired or erected entirely new: ST. Jo
seph's academy, st. Francis church parish
school, the High, Adams, Humboldt, Sihley.
Rice and Neill schools Other public edifces
that may be easily called to mind are the
Ryan hotel, Thomas Mackey's hotel. W. r.
Davidson's front TO the Grand Opera house
and the Exposition building, the Chamber of
commerce, the Union depot and the emf
grant and baggage house, the quartermss-
ter's building and the pumping station at
McCarron's lake. The Street Railway com
pany has built offices and central stables at
Ramsey street and car barns at various other
places. The more conspicuous business
structures have been those OF E., F Drake on
Third and Fourth streets, the Reeves estate
on Third, H. E. Thompson's Portland on
Broadway, A. II. Wilder ON Fourth, the Ger
man-American bank on Robert, Henry Hale
on jackson, the Syndicate block on Seventh,
the Sherman building on Wabashaw, the
Forepaugh block at Seven corners, the
Burns block on Oak, aud the Knauft block
on Seventh. few of the elegant homes
and tenement buildings are those of Frank
Hoffman on Tenth, T. Reardon on Jackson,
Z. Lyle on Cedar, Greenleaf Clark on Oak,
A. M. Eastman on Summit, J. G. Freeman