St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-11-22
WILL BUILD SOON.
ENOCK f. BERRISFORD TO
ERECT A HANDSOME BRICK
BLOCK.
SIXTH AND MINNESOTA.
1T WILL, WHEN CONSTRUCTED,
BE OCCUPIED BY GEORGE
BENZ & SONS.
ADDITION TO THAT SECTION,
Work to BE Begun in March and
the Building to BE Completed
the Last of August.

Another large commercial build
ing, fully in keeping with the local
ity, is to be erected at the northeast
corner of Minnesota and Sixth
streets. This corner adjoins the
most modern group of business
structures in st. Paul. Within a
single block are the great New York
Life building, the Ryan hotel, the
Metropolitan opera house, and the
handsome edifces occupied by
Mannheimer Bros, the Boston cloth
ing house, Ransom & Horton,
Schliek & Co., Smith & Farwell.
The new building will be con-
structed early in the coming year by
Enoch F. Berrisford, manager of the
Berrisford factory of the American
Biscuit and Manufacturing COM
pany Mr. Berrisford owns the cor
ner lot and the four frame houses
which now occupy it. The lot is
so by 100 feet, and contains a two
story building utilized as a saloon
by Oscar Tankenoff, the West side
ward leader. Adjoining Tankenoff's
saloon on Minnesota street are two
small frame cottages. Adjoining the
saloon on Sixth street is a similar
small building. Thus ample space
is afforded for the proposed build
ing, which will be of brick four stor-
les in height, and we'll night the full
dimensions of the lot. 1t will be
substantially built, yet the requisite
decorative features of a first-class
business house will not be neglected.
The new building to be occupied by
George Benz & Sons, whose increasing
business demands larger facilities.
They will then be in a petition to cater
even more successfully than al pres
ent for the retail bottling trade of
the city. 1t is to be completed so that
the firm can occupy it not later
than Sept. l.
The present frame building at this
corner has been used for saloon pur-
poses only during the last seven or
eight years. 1t was formerly a dwell
ing, and was erected many years ago.
During the Boom it was altered into
a real estate Office. About this time
the lot was purchased by Mr.. Berris-
ford. It is said to have cost him in
the neighborhood of $1,000. At pres
ent it is probably worth three times as
much. Yet, even with the high prices
of eight years ago, the amount paid
by Mr.. Berrisford seemed by no means
insufficient for there were then scarce
ly trace of the many expensive struc-
lures which now embellish the neigh
borhood. On all sides were old-fash-
ioned shops or dwellings. Indeed, it
seemed that while business was spread
ing along Seventh, Wabasha and Rob
ert, the vicinity of Minnesota street
could never attract the attention Of
reputable merchants. The erection Of
the Ryan hotel had first broken the
spell of vulgar associations, and Sixth
street from that moment began its
rapid growth as leading business
thoroughfare.
Several years after the building of
the hotel were required, however, to
accelerate the movement. The New
York Life building, one of the finest
structures of the sort in the country.
was the next addition to the noble
structures of the neighborhood. For
a long time subsequently the popular
ity of Sixth street for the retail trade
was impaired by the absence of an
outlet to the Dayton's bluff district.
But the erection of the Sixth street
bridge and the laying of the new as
phalt pavement has made a thorough
fare which unites with the principal
retail establishments of the city the
two great residence centers-St. An
thony hill and Dayton's bluff. and
that, too by the shortest distance
along a we'll paved street free from
the incumbrance of street car traffic.
The intersection of Minnesota and
Sixth streets seems to be especially
favored of late. 1t IS but a few months
ago that the fiourishing firm Of Smith
& Farwell moved into their spacious
new building on the northwest corner.
The small but tasteful building once
devoted to the St Paul News. but now
occupied by Frost & Co, the druggists,
fills the southeast corner. With the
completion of the new Berrisford
building this intersection will be built
up in a most permanent and salts
factory manner.
It is expected that work on the foun-
dation will be begun in March.