Lawrence A. Martin
Specific Structures. The following presents available information on the housing styles of specific structures located along the hike:
670 Summit Avenue: Built in 1925. The structure is a two story, 3744 square foot, 14 room, six bedroom, four bathroom, duplex with a basement garage and a detached garage. The 1910-1911 Directory of the University of Minnesota indicates that Florence Mayfred Briggs, a student, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Florence Mayfred Briggs was the daughter of Warren S. Briggs. Warren S. Briggs (1854-1914,) the son of Isaac Austin Briggs and Elizabeth Briggs, was born at Green Lake Prairie, Wisconsin, graduated from the village school in Arcadia, Wisconsin, graduated from Galesville University in 1876, was educated in medicine in Louisville, Kentucky, graduated from Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago in 1879, took post-graduate studies in Europe, practiced medicine in Whitehall, Wisconsin, in 1879, was a homeopathic physician in Arcadia, Wisconsin, from 1879 until 1881, moved to St. Paul in 1881, was a professor of clinical and ortheopedic surgery in the College of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery in the University of Minnesota, was on the staff of the city and county, St. Luke's and St. Joseph's hospitals, married Florence Lucy Chase in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, in 1885, purchased a homeopathic medical hospital in 1888 and operated it as a private hospital, established the first training school for nurses northwest of Chicago, was a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, was a member of the Minnesota State Homeopathic Institute, was a member of the Ramsey County Homeopathic Medical Society, and died of double pleuropneumonia in St. Paul. In 1896, Warren S. Briggs lost litigation to E. Walther and James E. Trask as assignees for $4,044.32. Florence Lucy Chase Briggs (1862- ,) the daughter of Charles Foster Chase and Rosina Randall Chase, was born in Ripley, Michigan, graduated from the Potsdam State Normal School and the Pianoforte School of Potsdam, New York, in 1881, was a Unitarian, was the president of the Schubert Club, and was a member of the New Century Club. Warren S. Briggs and Florence Lucy Chase Briggs had one child, Florence Mayfred Briggs (1887- .) Florence Mayfred Briggs received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Minnesota in 1909 and later became a high school teacher. The last sale of the property occurred in 1998 and the sale price was $325,000. The current owners of record of the property are James R. Councilman and Mary H. Councilman, who reside at 8 Crocus Hill.
672 Summit Avenue: The Waldorf Apartments; Built in 1898 (1900 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Classical Revival/Colonial Revival in style; Hermann Kretz, architect. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Hermann Kretz owned this building and owned number of apartment buildings in the Historic Hill area. The building was constructed for $54,300. The building has an unusual surface treatment, with alternating bands of smoothly dressed and rockfaced red sandstone. The building has been converted to condominium units. 672 Summit Avenue Unit #1 is a 736 square foot, three room, one bedroom, one bathroom, condominium which is owned by Courtney Lawrence and David Lawrence and which last sold in 2005 for $270,000. 672 Summit Avenue Unit #101 is a 3612 square foot, five room, two bedroom, one bathroom, condominium, with a detached one car garage, which is owned by David C. Quig. 672 Summit Avenue Unit #102 is a 4065 square foot, five room, two bedroom, one bathroom, condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by Kathryn A. McKenny and which last sold in 2005 for $670,000. 672 Summit Avenue Unit #201 is a 1546 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom, condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by Donald F. Pike Jr., and Wendy Pike, who reside in Bloomingdale, Illinois, and which last sold in 2006 for $508,000. 672 Summit Avenue Unit #202 is a 1589 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by James H. Day and Janice F. Day. 672 Summit Avenue Unit #301 is a 1544 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom, condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by the Harry Debes Trust, located in Greenwood Village, Colorado, and which last sold in 2005 for $535,000. 672 Summit Avenue Unit #302 is a 1588 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom, condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by Jerald Daigle and David A. Pedersen and which last sold in 2005 for $530,000. The 1906 Jubilee Manual of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church indicates that Sarah H. Nunnally, the widow of Eldred Nunnally ( -1901) and a member of the church since 1896, and Dorotha J. Nunnally, a member of the church since 1897, both resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Nelson D. Miller resided at this address in 1889. Little Sketches of Big Folks indicates that William D. Kelly resided at this address in 1907. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Major John Kelliher (1840-1908,) the husband of Harriet A. Irvine Kelliher, who was born in St. James, New Brunswick, and who died of valvular heart disease, resided at this address in 1908. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Rosina R. Chase (1826-1909,) the widowed mother of Mrs. Warren S. Briggs, who was born in the United States to parents also born in the United States and who died of pneumonia, resided at this address in 1909 and her body was eventually reburied in Potsdam, New York. The 1918 city directory indicates that the residents at this address were J. C. Egerton, Miss M. C. Egerton, W. C. Egerton, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hartsinck, her daughter, E. J. Kent, Allen McQuillan, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Pechin, Rev. and Mrs. J. R. Smith, and Paul Smith. The 1920 city directory indicates that Louise Beck, the widow of Stephen Beck, Hampden H. Carlson, a dentist with a practice at 922 1/2 Selby Avenue, Fred W. Crane, a sales manager employed by Swift & Company, and Walter C. Egerton, a salesman employed by Finch, Van Slyke & McConnville, all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that the residents at 672 Summit Avenue were Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Clancy, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hartsinck, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Konantz, the Misses MacDougall, and Allen McQuillan. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that John G. Brown resided at this address in 1930. The 1930 city directory indicates that Adolph Konantz, a Christian Science practitioner, and his wife, Jennie Konantz, resided at apartment #1, that Edward T. Hughes, a salesman employed by J. H. Kartack Company, and his wife, Jane M. Kartack, resided at apartment #2, that Allen McQuillan resided at apartment #3, that Katherine A. MacDougall resided at apartment #4, that apartment #5 was vacant, and that apartment #6 was vacant. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that James T. Dunn, a member of the Class of 1932, resided at this address. In 2004, St. Albans Summit LLC appealed two variances to the St. Paul Board of Zoning Appeals in order to build 14 new garages at 672 and 676 Summit Avenue. In 1901, Sarah H. Nunnally, the administratrix of the estate of Eldred Nunnally, prevailed before the Claims Court and was awarded $3,402 for property seized from a loyal U. S. citizen in Lafayette County, Mississippi, by the Seventh Kansas Infantry in 1862 without compensation. William D. Kelly (1864-1940,) the son of Daniel William Kelly (1839-1922) and Mary Collins Kelly, was born in St. Paul, work as bundle boy for Lindeke, Ladd & Company for a period of years after 1877, was educated at the Jefferson School in 1879, graduated from high school in 1880, attended the St. Paul Business College from 1881 until 1882, graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1886, graduated from the Jefferson Medical College in 1887, did post-graduate studies at the University of Minnesota, did post-graduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, did post-graduate studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, did post-graduate studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, did post-graduate studies at the University of Berlin, Germany, did post-graduate studies at the University of Dresden, Germany, practiced medicine with Dr. D. W. Hand in St. Paul in 1887, served as a private in Company "E" of the Third Regiment of the Minnesota National Guard in 1900, served in the Hospital Corps of the Minnesota National Guard in 1901, served as a Major and a Surgeon of the Minnesota National Guard in 1904, was a gynecologist at the City & County Hospital, was a surgeon at the St. Paul Free Dispensary, was a pathologist at St. Joseph's Hospital, was a medical examiner at the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, was the medical representative of the Milwaukee RailRoad in St. Paul, was the medical officer to the Federal District Court of Minnesota, was a member of the American Medical Association, was a member of the Ramsey County Medical Society, was a member of the Minnesota State Medical Society, was a member of the Junior Pioneers, was a member of the Knights of Columbus, was a member of the Benevolent Order of Elks, was an honorary member of the University of Minnesota chapter of Alpha Kappa Kappa fraternity, was an honorary member of the Crow River Valley Medical Society, officed at the Lowry Arcade in 1907, died at St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Paul, and was interred at Calvary Cemetery. The siblings of Dr. William D. Kelly were Nellie Kelly, Mary-Minnie Zieta Kelly (Mrs. James) Manahan, Daniel Kelly, Briget Kelly, Ursula May "Bird" Kelly, Jane/Jenny Kelly, Dr. John V. Kelly, Dr. Paul H. Kelly, and Margaret Kelly. John Kelliher (1840-1908) was born in St. John's, New Brunswick, moved to Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1845, received a common school education in Massachusetts, graduated from a commercial college in Providence, Rhode Island, served in the 20th Massachusetts Regiment during the American Civil War, was promoted to the rank of Major, was wounded three times and lost an arm at Spottsylvania, Virginia, in 1864, resumed service with the regular army after the American Civil War, retired from the U. S. Army in 1870, studied the law, settled in St. Paul in 1872, married Harriet A. Irvine, the daughter of John R. Irvine, in 1873, was the attorney for the purpose of the service of process of the Aetna Insurance Company in 1874, engaged in the real estate business with an office at 28 East Third Street, had a carriage works at 192-194 West Third Street in 1884, and died in St. Paul. John Kelliher, Harriet Kelliher, and Mattie Gorman, the daughter of R. L. Gorman, vacationed at Lake Osakis, Minnesota, in 1884. John Kelliher and Harriet A. Irvine Kelliher had four children, Hattie B. Kelliher, John G. Kelliher, Robert J. Kelliher, and Shirley I. Kelliher. The Kelliher burial plot at Oakland Cemetery includes the graves of Harriet I. Kelliher (1850-1921,) John Kelliher (1840-1908,) and Richard Kelliher (1890-1892.) Arthur H. Mundy ( -1938) died in Itasca County, Minnesota. Clara E. Mundy ( -1920) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are James R. Councilman and Mary H. Councilman, who reside at 8 Crocus Hill. [See note on Kretz.] [See note for George van Slyke for 1180 Summit Avenue.] [See the note for Swift & Company for 110 Robie Street West.]
676 Summit Avenue: The Waldorf Apartments; Built in 1900; Colonial Revival in style; Hermann Kretz, architect. The structure is a three story, 32264 square foot, multi-family apartment house. The building has been converted to condominium units. 676 Summit Avenue Unit #1 is a 848 square foot, three room, one bedroom, one bathroom condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by James H. Day and Janice F. Day and which last sold in 2005 for $253,860. 676 Summit Avenue Unit #101 is a 3798 square foot, five room, two bedroom, one bathroom condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by Susan C. Parker and Walter D. Parker of Tucson, Arizona, and which last sold in 2005 for $685,000. 676 Summit Avenue Unit #102 is a 3999 square foot, five room, two bedroom, one bathroom condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by Robert G. Kovich and Sally J. Schmidt. 676 Summit Avenue Unit #201 is a 1546 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by Donald F. Pike, Jr., and Wendy Pike of Bloomingdale, Illinois, and which last sold in 2006 for $508,000. 676 Summit Avenue Unit #202 is a 1625 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by Alan Graebner and Margaret K. Graebner and which last sold in 2005 for $488,712. 676 Summit Avenue Unit #301 is a 1572 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by Ryan Tauer and Melissa Wellington and which last sold in 2006 for $540,250. 676 Summit Avenue Unit #303 is a 1628 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by Grant N. Whitney and Stephanie R. Whitney and which last sold in 2005 for $540,280. Little Sketches of Big Folks indicates that Charles Clarence Haupt resided at this address. The 1908 city directory indicates that Arthur W. Mundy, superintendent of the Golden Rule, boarded at this address, that Clara E. Mundy, widow of Edward O. Mundy, resided at this address, and that Harry L. Mundy, an employee of A. Guthrie & Company, boarded at this address. The 1909 University of Minnesota Bulletin indicates that Warren S. Briggs, a medical doctor and a professor at the University of Minnesota, resided at the corner of Summit Avenue and South St. Albans Street. The 1918 city directory indicates that the residents at this address were Dr. and Mrs. G. A. Renz, Mrs. H. S. Fairchild, her daughter, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Risser, Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Miller, their daughter, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Guyer, L. S. Oakes, Rev. and Mrs. J. D. Reid, their daughter, and Kenneth Reid. The 1920 city directory indicates that Caroline F. Fairchild, the principal of the Riverside School, boarded at this address and that Elizabeth Fairchild, the widow of Henry Fairchild, resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Anna Laura Miller (1844-1922,) the wife of Nelson D. Miller, who was born in Canada to parents who were born in Scotland and who died of c. interstitial nephritis, resided at this address in 1922. The 1924 city directory indicates that the residents at 676 Summit Avenue were Mrs. A. K. Blaine and her daughter, Mrs. H. S. Fairchild, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Guyer, Miss S. M. Miller, and Nelson Miller and his daughter. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Elizabeth C. Fairchild (1844-1925,) the widowed mother of Caroline Fairchild, who was born in Maryland to parents born in the United States and who died of broncho pneumonia, resided at this address in 1926. The 1930 city directory indicates that Perry M. Griffis, a janitor,and his wife, Mattie Grifffis, resided at the basement apartment, that Herbert H. Matteson, president of the Matteson Company, a general insurance agency, resided at apartment #7, that Caroline Fairchild, principal of the Riverside School, resided at apartment #8, that Mrs. Hattie E. Macdonald, the widow of John M. L. Macdonald, resided at apartment #9, that John G. Brown, a traveling salesman, and his wife, Olive Brown, resided at apartment #10, that apartment #11 was vacant, and that John B. Brimhall, a physician who officed at 350 St. Peter Street, and his wife, Laura Brimhall, resided at apartment #12. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Lawrence Boardman, a member of the Class of 1914 and a Second Lieutenant in the Infantry at Camp Lewis, Washington, and a First Lieutenant with the Eighth Ammunition train at Camp Fremont, St. Paul, during World War I, resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Lawrence Boardman, who attended the school from 1913 until 1914, who was a First Lieutenant in the Infantry during World War I, and was employed by the St. Paul Pioneer Press, resided at this address. Charles Clarence Haupt (1854-1923,) the son of Barnett Haupt and Rosina Haupt, was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, moved to White Pigeon, Michigan, in childhood, attended common schools in White Pigeon, Michigan, graduated from the University of Michigan, attended the law school of the Franklin-Marshall College of Pennsylvania, completed law studies in the law office of Salathiel Curtis Coffinberry ( -1889) at Constantine, Richland County, Michigan, was admitted to practice of law in St. Joseph County, Michigan, in 1878, practiced law at Corunna, Michigan, from 1878 until 1883, moved to Minnesota in 1883, practiced law at Willmar, Minnesota, from 1883 until 1884, practiced law at Fergus Falls, Minnesota, from 1884 until 1901, married Ida Trenchard in St. Paul in 1884, was the County attorney for Otter Tail County, Minnesota, from 1898 until 1900, was a member of the Haupt & Field law firm in St. Paul after 1901, was the United States district attorney for Minnesota after 1902, was a Minnesota district court judge after 1904, and was a Mason. Henry Shields Fairchild (1826-1913,) the son of Lewis Fairchild (1797-1886) and Elizabeth Day Fairchild (1799- ,) was born in Warren County, Ohio, was educated in the common schools of Lebanon, Ohio, Waynesville, Ohio, and Cincinnati, Ohio, was a teacher in the public schools of Cincinnati, Ohio, was the head of the firm of Fairchild & Underwood, merchants in Brandon, Mississippi, from 1854 until 1857, moved to St. Paul in 1857, married Elizabeth Matilda Clayland (1834- ) near Jackson, Mississippi, in 1857, was the head of Fairchild & Pease, came to St. Paul in 1859, was the head of Fairchild & Son, was a real estate agent, was engaged in the real estate and loan businesses in the partnership of Fairchild & March, located on Fourth Street between St. Peter Street and Market Street, was a member of the St. Paul Board of Public Works, was the president of the Ramsey County Pioneers, was a member of the Ramsey County Board, was the president of the St. Paul Real Estate Exchange, was an attendee of the first Grand Jubilee Social of the Minnesota Territorial Pioneers in 1898, was the author of Sketches of the Early History of Real Estate in St. Paul in 1905, was elected a life member of the Minnesota Historical Society in 1882, was a member of the executive council of the Minnesota Historical Society from 1894 until 1913, was a member of the board of directors of the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce, was one of the promoters of a bridge across the river at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, was instrumental in finding the sites for the state capitol building and for the State Fair, was a life member of the State Agricultural Society, resided at 303 Nelson Street in 1907, officed at the Court Block in 1907, and died in St. Paul. Henry Shields Fairchild and Elizabeth Matilda Clayland Fairchild had 11 children, Fannie Fairchild (1859- ,) Charles Clayland Fairchild (1862- ,) Lewis Cyrus Fairchild (1863- ,) Caroline Friend Fairchild (1865- ,) Florence Fairchild (Mrs. Charles H., Jr.) Bigelow (1868- ,) Horace Greely Fairchild (1872- ,) Alice Fairchild (Mrs. Gustave) Risser (1876- ,) Lambert Fairchild (1880- ,) John Day Fairchild (1882- ,) Byron Fairchild (1884- ,) and Josiah Fairchild (1886- .) John Horsburg painted a portrait of Henry Shields Fairchild in 1887, which is owned by the Minnesota Historical Society. In 1966, "Fairchild the Gopher" became the official mascot of the Minnesota State Fair as a tribute to Henry S. Fairchild, the man who suggested that the former Ramsey County Poor Farm site become the permanent site of the State Fair. Lambert Fairchild (1880-1959,) the son of Henry Shields Fairchild and Elizabeth Matilda Clayland Fairchild, was born in St. Paul, was educated in the public schools of St. Paul, was employed by the advertising department of the St. Paul Dispatch from 1895 until 1897, was employed in the general freight office of the Minneapolis & St. Louis RailRoad from 1897 until 1899, was in the real estate business with his father from 1899 until 1904, married Mabelle/Mabel Hortense Baker Polhamus in 1904, married May Mosher Powell, the daughter of Allen Mosher, in 1905, was a member of the Royal Arcanum, was a member of the Maccabees, resided at 117 Virginia Avenue in 1907, officed at the Globe Building in 1907, moved to New York City in the 1920's, was a commander of an American Legion Post, was a Republican, was an unsuccessful candidate for the New York State Assembly before 1934, was a New York City alderman from 1934 until 1936, was a member of the Committee of Honor, a German-American Bund/alleged Nazi sympathizer group, during the 1930's, was the secretary of the Committee for Republican Integrity in 1939, split with the Republican Party over Fiorello La Guardia, supported Democrat William O'Dwyer for New York City mayor, worked to expand observances of the birthdays of Theodore Roosevelt and Ulysses S. Grant, was the chairman of the National Committee for Religious Recovery before World War II, unsuccessfully challenged in New York state court the nomination of Earl Browder, an independent, for Congress from New York on the basis of alleged Communist connections in 1940, was denounced for his pro-German connections by columnist Walter Winchell in 1942, was an official of the American Defense Society, was a member of the board of directors of the Blizzard Men of 1888, was the chairman of the Constitutional Educational League, Inc. in 1952, and died of pneumonia in New York City. Mrs. Lambert Fairchild was a member of the National Americanization League. Lambert Fairchild and Mabel Hortense Baker Polhamus Fairchild were the parents of three children, Mabel Fairchild (1901- ,) Mildred Lamberta Fairchild (1903- ,) and Marion Fairchild (1903- .) Warren S. Briggs (1854- ,) the son of Isaac Austin Brigs and Elizabeth Briggs, was born at Green Lake Prairie, Wisconsin, was educated at the village school in Arcadia, Wisconsin, graduated from Galesville University in 1876, was educated in medicine in Louisville, Kentucky, graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago in 1879, took post-graduate studies in Europe, practiced medicine in Whitehall, Wisconsin, practiced homeopathic medicine in Arcadia, Wisconsin, from 1879 until 1881, moved to St. Paul in 1881, was appointed to the medical staff of the City & County Hospital, was a member of the medical staff of St. Luke's Hospital, was a member of the medical staff of St. Joseph's Hospital, was a professor of clinical and ortheopedic surgery in the College of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery in the University of Minnesota, operated a private homeopathic hospital after 1888, was a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, was a member of the the Minnesota State Homeopathic Institute, and was a member of the the Ramsay County Homeopathic Medical Society. Dr. Warren S. Briggs was a professor of clinical and orthopedic surgery of the College of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery of the University of Minnesota in 1883. The 1915 Woman's Who's Who of America: a biographical dictionary of contemporary women in the United States and Canada indicates that Florence Lucy Chase (Mrs. Warren S.) Briggs (1862- ,) the daughter of Charles Foster Chase and Rosina Randall Chase, was born Ripley, Michigan, graduated from the Potsdam State Normal School and the associated Pianoforte School of Potsdam, New York, in 1881, married Dr. Warren S. Briggs in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, in 1885, was a member of the New Century Club, was a member of the Schubert Club, and resided at this address. Warren S. Briggs and Florence Lucy Chase Briggs were the parents of one child, Florence Mayfred Briggs (1887- .) Mrs. Warren S. Briggs was the president of the St. Paul Schubert Club in 1903. The property was last sold for $595,000 and that sale occurred in 1995. The current owners of record of the property are James R. Councilman and Mary H. Councilman, who reside at 8 Crocus Hill. [See note on Kretz.]
677 Summit Avenue: 677 Summit Avenue; Built between 1930-1940 (1933 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian/Colonial Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 2478 square foot, 16 room, four bedroom, three bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2000 for $364,000. This house originally stood at 637 Lexington Parkway. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. In 1934, Hattie Belote MacDonald, the widow of John M. L. MacDonald, resided at this address. The house was moved to this site in 1959. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Roger S. Countryman, Jr., a member of the Class of 1955, resided at this address. In 1972-1973, Jeffrey Goodlow, a Senior at Macalester College, resided at this address. Hattie Eloise MacDonald ( -1947) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Brian Moe and Lynn Moe, who reside in Andover, Minnesota. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Gustave Renz, M.D. (1861-1919,) the husband of Anna Renz, who was born in Minnesota to parents who were born in Germany and who died of a carcinoma, resided at the nearby former 676 Summit Avenue in 1919.
682 Summit Avenue: Joseph Lockey House; Built in 1893; Romanesque in style; Hermann Kretz, architect. The structure is a 1910 square foot, five room, two bedroom, two bathroom, stone condominium, which was last sold in 1998 for $225,000. The current owner of record of the property is Jacqueline M. Vaale. In 2001, Jacqueline Vaale was the Director of Systems Management Services at Unysis. [See note on Kretz.]
683 Summit Avenue: Jacob E. Schadle House; Built in 1895 (1894 according to Ramsey County property tax records); Georgian/Colonial Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 4315 square foot, ten room, six bedroom, four bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. The house was built for $16,000. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that the house was built by Dr. Jacob E. Schadle and that Cyrus C. DeCoster resided at this address from 1896 to 1901. B. F. Myers resided at this address in 1914. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Myers resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Leo E. Owens, the president and publisher of the Dispatch-Pioneer Press Company, and his wife, Marie Owens, resided at this address. In 1934, Leo E. Owens, Sr., Marie Reilly Owens, Leo E. Owens, Jr., Ellen Owens, and Owen Owens resided at this address. Leo E. Owens, Sr., was a graduate of the University of Minnesota and of Columbia University. The Owens family were members of the Minikahda Country Club, the St. Paul Athletic Club, the Minneapolis Club, and the Women's City Club of St. Paul in 1934. Jacob E. Schadle was a physician. Jacob E. Schadle ( -1908) died in Ramsey County. Leo H. Owens ( -1938) died in Hennepin County. Marie E. Owens (1877-1967) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Murphy, and died in Hennepin County. The current owner of record of the property is the trustee for Margaret M. Moroney.
684 Summit Avenue: Built in 1893; Richardsonian Romanesque in style; Hermann Kretz, architect. The structure is a 1910 square foot, seven room, three bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, stone condominium, which was last sold in 2001 for $350,000. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that the house was a double house with 9 South St. Albans that was built by Joseph Lockey, but not occupied by him, and that Philip S. Shufeldt resided at this address from 1894 to 1897. The 1906 Jubilee Manual of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church indicates that Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser and H. (Mrs. F. E.) Weyerhaeuser, members of the church since 1904, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Enos Bryson, Miss Mae Russell, and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ginnaty all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that John W. Ginnaty and his wife, Mary H. Ginnaty, resided at this address. In 1972-1973, Nurit Barkan, a Freshman at Macalester College, resided at this address. The current owner of record of the property is Barbara Kranz. Barbara Kranz is a runner who participated in the 2000 Run For The Roses 5K Race, the 2000 Autumn Woods Classic 5K Race, the 2004 Guidant Heart of Summer 5k Road Race, the 2004 Run to the Cemetery 5K Race, and the 2005 James Joyce Ramble 10K Race. [See note on Hermann Kretz.]
686 Summit Avenue: Built in 1893. The structure is a 1910 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, stone condominium, which was last sold in 2001 for $285,169. The current owners of record of the property are Jugna J. Shah and Ronak R. Shah. Jugna J. Shah, MPH, is the president and founder of Nimitt Consulting, Inc., consulting in ambulatory payment reform, health care financing system implementation and advocacy. Ms. Shah also is the U.S. project director assisting the Romanian government in implementing health care financing reform, through a contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID.) Ms. Shah holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Biopsychology from Oberlin College, and a Masters of Public Health Policy and Administration degree from the University of Michigan. Ronak R. Shah, CPA, was the Planning Task Force Chair for the 50th Annual MNCPA Tax Conference in 2004 and is the Managing Principal of Shah & Company, Ltd., which is an accounting, taxation and business advisory firm, specializing in international and multi-state tax issues that was founded in 1987. Mr. Shah received his Bachelors of Arts Degree in International Management from Hamline University and became a CPA in 1996. Mr. Shah also is an active member of the Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants (MNCPA,) involved on the Tax Conference, Multi-state Tax Conference and Legislative Affairs committees and the Speakers Bureau, was the Vice Chairman of the MNCPA's Political Action Committee Board of Trustees, and is associated with the Network of Indian Professionals' Twin Cities.
692 Summit Avenue: Misses Gliney House; Built in 1912; Georgian Revival/Simple Rectilinear in style; B. J. Taylor, architect. The structure is a two story, 2442 square foot, six bedroom, four bathroom, frame house, with a detached one-car garage. The house cost $5,700 when it was built. It was moved from 736 Holly Avenue to this site. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The current owners of record of the property are Ona L. Lentz and Theodore R. Lentz. Ona Lentz has a M.Ed. degree in mathematics education from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, is a Community Faculty Member in Mathematics at Metro State University, and is active with the Unity Unitarian Church. Theodore R. Lentz, AIA, is associated with Ted Lentz & Associates and is a member of the American College of Health Care Architects.
696 Summit Avenue: Built in 1963; Bungalow in style; Alladin Improvement Company, builder and architect. The structure is a 1880 square foot, four bedroom, two bathroom, stucco rambler, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 1988 for $83,000. The house was built for Empire Realty Company. Construction of the house cost $13,500. The current owner of record of the property is Martin J. Meketarian, who is located at 25 Griggs Street North.
700-702 Summit Avenue: Built in 1919; Walter Stevens, architect. The structure is a two story, 3292 square foot, six bedroom, two bathroom, two half-bathroom, brick double house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2004 for $450,000. The house was built for D. E. Foley. House construction cost $8,000. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ordway, Jr., resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Daniel E. Foley resided at 700 Summit Avenue. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1934, Major H. P. Blanks, Margaret Inman Blanks, Robert Blanks, and Henry Blanks resided at 700 Summit Avenue. The current owner of record of the property Douglas J. Sucik, who resides in Nisswa, Minnesota. [See note on Stevens.]
701 Summit Avenue: William H. Elsinger House; Built in 1908 (1898 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Renaissance Revival/Tudor/Medieval Revival in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect. The structure is a two story, 6242 square foot, eight bedroom, four bathroom, stone house, with a detached garage. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that William H. Elsinger resided at this address from 1899 to 1908. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Rose resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Mayme Rose resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. William H. Elsinger was the proprietor of the former Aberdeen Hotel and was a partner in the firm of W. H. Elsigner & Company, which operated the Golden Rule Department Store. In 1898, W. H. Elsigner & Company, general dealers, was located at 95 East Seventh Street. Elsinger was the brother of Bettie Elsinger Dittenhofer, who lived at 705 Summit Avenue with her husband, Jacob Dittenhofer. Jacob Dittenhofer was William Elsinger's business partner. The house was built for $13,000 (Sandeen; $14,000 according to Larson.) Johnston was contracted in 1913 to remodel the house for Albert N. Rose, and the remodeling cost $1,000. In 1914, Isidor Rose (1832-1915) lived at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Rose and Mrs. Nancy Rose all resided at this address. Isidor Rose was the manager of the St. Paul branch of the Joseph Ullmann Fur Company and resided at 220 East Ninth Street in 1900. The American Jewish Year Book for 1907 indicates that Jacob Dittenhofer was the president of the Mount Zion Hebrew Congregation. The Elsinger burial plot at the Mount Zion Temple Cemetery in Maplewood, Minnesota, includes the graves of William H. Elsinger (1860-1905,) Regina Elsinger (1823-1900,) Max Elsinger (1811-1870,) Sam Elsinger (1848-1872,) Karl W. Elsinger (1893-1958,) Mary Elsinger (1958-1931,) and Joseph Elsinger (1842-1917.) William H. Elsinger (1860-1905) was born in the United States and died in Ramsey County. Isidon Rose ( -1915,) Albert N. Rose ( -1928,) and Jacob Dittenhofer ( -1931) all died in Ramsey County. The previous owner of record of the property was Kenneth O'Neil and the current owner of record of the property is Louise M. O'Neil. The 1930 city directory indicates that Charles B. Sexton resided at the nearby former 702 Summit Avenue. [See note on Johnston.]
704-706 Summit Avenue: Built in 1919; Walter Stevens, architect. The building is a two story, 3292 square foot, 14 room, six bedroom, two bathroom, two half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. The house was built for D. E. Foley. Construction of the house cost $8,000. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. M. G. McGuire resided at 704 Summit Avenue and that Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Michaud resided at 706 Summit Avenue. The 1930 city directory indicated that Chris D. Pamel, a partner with Louis D. Pamel in Pamel Brothers, a florist, and his wife, Emily Pamel, resided at the former nearby 704 Summit Avenue. The current owner of record of the property is Adrian Drew Stetler. [See note on Stevens.]
705 Summit Avenue: Jacob Dittenhofer and Bettie Dittenhofer House; Built in 1898; Renaissance Revival/Eclectic/Medieval Revival/Gothic in style; Cass Gilbert, original architect, and Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., remodeling architect. The house cost $14,648 to construct. The structure is now a three story, 13378 square foot, multi-family apartment house. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Jacob Dittenhofer resided at this address from 1899 to 1932. The book of Minnesotans: a biographical dictionary of leading living men of Minnesota, edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, indicates that Jacob Dittenhofer resided at this address in 1907. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Dittenhofer, Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Rose, and their daughter all resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Jacob Dittenhofer, the president of the Golden Rule, resided at this address and that Phil Foley was the yardman at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Dittenhofer and Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Rose all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Jacob Dittendorfer, president of the Dittenhofer Realty Company, and his wife, Bettie Dittenhofer, resided at this address. In 1934, Ella Dittenhofer Rose, the widow of I. E. Rose, resided at this address. Jacob Dittenhofer (1845- ,) the son of Samuel Dittenhofer and Fannie Berg Dittenhofer, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, was educated in the Cleveland, Ohio, public schools, was employed in a dry goods firm in Cleveland, Ohio, and was self-employed until 1868, was a merchant, was partner in the Golden Rule Department Store with his next door neighbor and brother-in-law, W. H. Elsigner, married Bettie Elsinger in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1875, came to St. Paul in 1886, was a member of the board of directors of the German American National Bank, was a member of the board of directors of the Sharood Shoe Corporation in St. Paul, was a Republican, was a member of the St. Paul Public Library Board, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, was a member of the St. Paul Business Men's League, was a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and was a member of the Minnesota Club. His son, Samuel William Dittenhofer (1877-1981,) eventually became a head of the Golden Rule Department Store and lived at 807 Summit Avenue. Samuel W. Dittenhofer, the son of Jacob Dittenhofer and Bettie Elsinger Dittenhofer, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, was educated in the St. Paul public schools, graduated from the Shattuck Military Academy, Faribault, Minnesota, in 1895, was employed by the Golden Rule Department Store in 1895, became a partner in the Golden Rule Department Store in 1899, married Madaline Lang in 1905, was a member of the Minnesota Club, and officed at the block bounded by Seventh Street, Eighth Street, Robert Street, and Minnesota Street in 1907. Samuel W. Dittenhofer married Mary Hague Babson, from Portland, Oregon, the daughter of Sydney Gorham Babson (1882-1975) and Grace Bowditch Campbell (1877-1970), and the former wife of Adam Borden Polson, in 1948, and the couple had one son, Samuel William Dittenhofer, Jr. Mary H. Babson Dittenhofer (1915-1998) was a 1936 graduate of Stanford University, was a member of the Monterey Museum of Art, and died at Carmel, California. Mary H. Babson Dittenhofer had three sons, Peter Polson, a 1960 graduate of Stanford University, and Alexander Polson, a 1965 recipient of a Masters of Business Administration degree from Stanford University, and S. William Dittenhofer III, a 1978 recipient of a Masters degree from Stanford University. Mary H. Babson Dittenhofer also had two brothers, Gorham Babson and Arthur Babson. Sydney Gorham Babson graduated from Princeton University in 1902, worked for a time in New York City with Sinclair & Babson, wholesalers of Portland Cement, and then with the Vulcanite Portland Cement Company, moved to Oregon, cleared the forest in the newly-settled Upper Hood River Valley, Oregon, and planted one of the first commercial apple and pear orchards in the area, and authored Tahiti Holiday, Green Wave of Mexico, and Complete Poems. His poem "Verdun" was published in the New York Times in 1917. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that S. William Dittenhofer, Jr., who attended the school from 1920 until 1926, who attended Yale University, who was a Second Lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps during World War II, who later served as a Captain in the Army Reserve after World War II, and who was employed as a food broker, resided in Portland, Oregon. Johnston was retained in 1913 to remodel the house at a cost of $4,000. The Golden Rule eventually became Donaldson's Department Store, which later was purchased by Carson Pirie Scott, after which they moved operations to the Town Square Building, then discontinued business at that location in 1992 and departed downtown St. Paul. The Dittenhofer burial plot at Mount Zion Temple Cemetery in Maplewood, Minnesota, includes the graves of Madeline Dittenhofer (1889-1969,) Samuel W. Dittenhofer (1877-1952,) Bettie Dittenhofer (1850-1933,) Jacob Dittenhofer (1845-1931,) and Elinor D. Brodie (1906-1940.) Jacob Dittenhofer ( -1931) died in Ramsey County. Another picture of the house. The current owner of record of the property is Kenneth O'Doyle. The 1930 city directory indicates that Samuel A. Wilder resided at the former nearby 706 Summit Avenue. [See note on Gilbert.] [See note on Johnston.]
710-712 Summit Avenue: H. M. Stocking House, Built in 1888 (1894 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Altered Victorian in style. Unit 1 is a 1851 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, stucco condominium which was last sold in 1996 for $184,000, and which is currently owned by Lori L. Bostrum. Unit 2 is a 1849 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, stucco condominium which was last sold in 2004 for $350,000, and which is currently owned by Randy Harrison and Janice Marka. Unit 3 is a 1521 square foot, two bedroom, one bathroom, stucco condominium which was last sold in 2002 for $229,900, and which is currently owned by Charles S. Neimeyer and Jane T. Ruvelson. Unit 4 is a 1216 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, stucco condominium which was last sold in 2001 for $186,000, and which is currently owned by Geoffrey Gerber, who resides in Minneapolis. Unit 5 is a 2437 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco condominium which was last sold in 1998 for $235,000, and which is currently owned by Bette R. Preus. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Stocking resided at 712 Summit Avenue. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mrs. H. M. Stocking resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that 710 Summit Avenue was vacant and that Mrs. Ermine V. Stocking, the widow of Hobart M. Stocking, resided at 712 Summit Avenue. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The original owner of the building was E. or C. Stocking. The house was built for $12,000. The 1889, 1891 and 1893 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lockey resided at this address. Joseph Lockey (1836-1909) resided at 712 Summit Avenue in 1890. The large Victorian house has been altered beyond recognition. It also has a carriage house which remains one of the most complex and intact carriage houses in the Historic Hill district. Joseph Lockey ( -1909) died in Ramsey County.
715 Summit Avenue: Built in 1984. The building is a two story, 1985 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a two car tuck-under garage, which was last sold in 1997 and the sale price was $243,000. The current owners of record of the property are Michael L. Hamann and Patricia A. Hamann, who reside in Perham, Minnesota. Michael L. Hamann is a dentist in Perham, Minnesota, and is a graduate of the University of Minnesota.
717 Summit Avenue: Built in 1984. The building is a two story, 1824 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a two car tuck-under garage, which was last sold in 2006 for $499,000. The previous owners of record of the property were Harold K. Higgins and Sandra J. Higgins and the current owner of record of the property is Patricia Lynn Murphy. Harold Higgins is the retired President/Publisher of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and is a member of the National Advisory Board of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Minnesota. Higgins (1951- ) retired in 2004, after 28 years with the Knight Ridder Corporation, as publisher of four different newspapers, in Aberdeen, in Boulder, in San Luis Obispo, and in St. Paul (2001-2004,) and was succeeded by Par Ridder (1969- ,) the former publisher of The San Luis Obispo, California Tribune, as the publisher of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Higgins earned an associate of arts degree from Tompkins-Cortland (N.Y.) Community College in 1970 and a B.S. from South Dakota State University in 1972 and graduated from the Stanford University Executive Program in 2001. Higgins is a member of the Board of Directors of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Business Partnership, and the Capital City Partnership, serves as chairman of the Knight Foundation's St. Paul Community Advisory Committee, is a member of the Twin Cities Communications Council, serves on the Inland Press Association Management and Costs Committee, is a seminar instructor for the National Cost and Revenue Study for daily newspapers, and is on the board of the Inland Press Association Foundation. Harold K. Higgins and Sandra J. Higgins are the parents of two children. Knight Ridder is the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher, with 31 daily newspapers in 28 U.S. markets.
719 Summit Avenue: Built in 1984. The building is a two story, 1851 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a two car tuck-under garage. The current owner of record of the property is Marilyn F. Mellor. Marilyn F. Mellor, M.D., practices pediatric emergency medicine in Minneapolis.
720 Summit Avenue: Built in 1914. The building is a two story, 1564 square foot, three bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2002 with a sale price of $259,900. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. The house was moved from 908 Portland Avenue. The house was owned by Dickerman Investment Company in 1922. Dickerman Park is an elongated 2.5 acres, tree lined stretch along University Avenue is between Fairview and Aldine Avenues donated in 1909 by the Dickerman Investment Company and Griggs, Cooper & Company, envisioning the park as a grand entrance to the heart of the city. Kent Dickerman is the grandson of one of Minnesota's turn of the century developers who formed the Dickerman Investment Company. The current owner of record of the property is James P. Mayer. James P. Mayer is a Senior Vice President and Investment Banker with the Dougherty & Company and is a member of the Minnesota Zoological Board of Directors.
721 Summit Avenue: Built in 1984. The building is a two story, 2124 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a two car tuck-under garage. The property was last sold in 2006 and the sale price was $460,250. The previous owner of record of the property was Diane D. Scholl and the current owner of record of the property is David M. Sieben.
722 Summit Avenue: Built in 1914. The building is a two story, 1564 square foot, three bedroom, one bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2002 with a sale price of $245,000. The current owner of record of the property is Jeanne M. Kruchowski.
725 Summit Avenue: Built in 1984. The building is a two story, 2196 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a two car tuck-under garage, which was last sold in 1995 for $160,000. The current owners of record of the property are Kevin J. Moynihan and Ngoc H. Tran. Kevin J. Moynihan is associated with the organization Scoil na dTri, a dance group consisting of approximately 15 dancers, and participated in the 2004 St. Paul St. Patrick's Day Parade. Kevin J. Moynihan is the principal with Upper Midwest Insurance Services, LLC. Kevin J. Moynihan, ACAS, MAAA, is a 1985 graduate of Babson College and previously was associated with Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Insurance Services Office, Inc., and Marsh USA, Inc.
726 Summit Avenue: 726 Summit Avenue; Built in 1903 (1904 according to Ramsey County property tax records); Queen Anne/Victorian in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The building is a two story, 3014 square foot, four bedroom, four bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The house was built for speculative/income purposes for Charles F. Arrol, a real estate agent who lived at 1921 Waltham Avenue in 1905. The house was built for $7,500. In 1910, the Catalogue of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity indicates that Edward K. Brennan, a 1907 graduate of the University of Minnesota and a city salesman employed by the C. Gotzian Company, resided at this address. In 1914, Thomas Brennan resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Thomas Brennan, her daughter, and E. K. Brennan all resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Mary A. Brennan, the widow of Thomas Brennan, and Thomas C. Fitzpatrick, a lawyer who officed at the Oppenheim Building, both resided at this address. In 1920, the United States Adjutant-General's Office U. S. Army Register, Volume VIII, indicates that Edward Kelly Brennan (1884- ,) a Captain in the Minnesota Adjutant General's Section, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mrs. Thomas Brennan, their daughter, and T. C. Fitzpatrick all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Thomas C. Fitzpatrick, a lawyer with a law office at the Oppenheim Building, resided at this address. In 1879, Thomas Brennan represented St. Paul's Fifth Ward on the city's board of aldermen. Thomas Brennan ( -1918,) Mary A. Brennan ( -1925,) and Charles F. Arrol ( -1932) all died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Christopher Q. Longley and Nancy M. Longley. [See note on Lockwood for 1118 Summit Avenue.]
727 Summit Avenue: Built in 1984. The building is a two story, 2196 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a two car tuck-under garage, which was last sold in 2001 for $340,000. The current owners of record of the property are Douglas D. Strandness and Lynette S. Strandness. Douglas D. Strandness and Lynette S. Strandness are associated with Dunbar Strandness Inc., a property management, asset management, and property investment firm which provides the management for Meadow Creek Condominiums, a 536-unit condominium community located in Hopkins, Minnesota. In 2003, Douglas Strandness was a financial supporter of the Randy Kelly for St. Paul Mayor campaign and resided at this address. Douglas D. Strandness is a 1974 graduate of Macalester College and was the president of the Minnesota Multi Housing Association in 2001.
728 Summit Avenue: Built in 1885. The building is a two story, 1757 square foot, two bedroom, one bathroom, two half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2002 for $465,000. The current owners of record of the property are Joey E. Gerdin and Gary M. Nies.
729 Summit Avenue: Built in 1984. The building is a two story, 2005 square foot, six room, two bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a basement garage. The property was last sold in 2005 for a purchase price of $375,000. The current owner of record of the property is Donald R. Boychuck. Donald Boychuk is the Chief Operating/Administrative Officer of Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. Planned Parenthood of Minnesota is an outgrowth of the movement begun by Margaret Sanger, who opened the world's first birth control clinic in violation of the Comstock laws, enacted in the 1880's, which prohibited the transportation of birth control devices or information through the mail, and was jailed. The Motherhood Protection League was established in Minnesota in 1928 and opened a birth control clinic in Minneapolis in 1931. St. Paul Maternal and Child Health Center was established in the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul in 1935, funded by the St. Paul Jewish Women's Council. In Northern Minnesota, the St. Louis County League for Planned Parenthood was established. The Motherhood Protection League of Rochester, Minnesota, also was established and the Olmstead County, Minnesota, Maternal Health Center opened. The Minnesota League for Planned Parenthood was created as a joint venture between the Planned Parenthood Leagues in Hennepin, Ramsey, Olmsted and St. Louis Counties in 1944. Planned Parenthood St. Paul opened a clinic in Selby-Dale area in 1963. In 1965, in Griswold v. Connecticut, the U. S. Supreme Court struck down a Connecticut law banning married people from getting contraception, saying the law infringes on their right to privacy and made birth control legal for married people in the United States as a privacy right. The Minnesota Legislature legalized birth control in 1965. Planned Parenthood of St. Paul provided services through a mobile unit to the St Paul Park Roosevelt Housing Project in 1966. Minnesota Citizen's Concerned for Life was incorporated in 1968. The Minneapolis and St. Paul Planned Parenthoods merged with Planned Parenthood Minnesota in 1971 and Dr. Jane Hodgson also became the only U. S. physician ever convicted for performing in-hospital abortion in Minnesota. In 1972, in Eisenstadt v. Baird, the U.S. Supreme Court found that the right to privacy extends to individuals and established the right of unmarried people to use contraceptives. In 1972, Planned Parenthood Minnesota merged with the Family Planning Clinics of St. Louis County, Inc. In 1973, in Roe v. Wade, the U. S. Supreme Court extended the right of privacy to include the ability of a woman to decide whether and when to have children and the ability of a woman and her doctor to make a decision to have an abortion. Planned Parenthood of Minnesota first offered abortion services in 1976 and picketing of its Highland Park building began. On Ash Wednesday, 1977, the Highland Park building was firebombed. In 1991, Planned Parenthood Minnesota was granted a court injunction prohibiting protesters from blocking entrances and exits to the Highland Park building. Arson at Planned Parenthood's Brainerd, Minnesota, clinic destroyed the clinic in 1994. In 1995, the Minnesota Supreme Court decided, in Doe v. Gomez that the Minnesota Constitution guarantees of privacy include a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy and also held that the State cannot provide funds for birth-related services and also prohibit the use of funds for abortion-related services without infringing on a woman's privacy right. In 2001, Sarah Stoesz was named the President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Minnesota/South Dakota and in 2004, Dr. Carol Ball was named the Medical Director for Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
734 Summit Avenue: Built in 2000. Unit 1 is a 1848 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided condominium/rowhouse, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2000 for $468,053, and which is currently owned by Lois K. Berens. Unit 2 is a 1848 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided condominium/rowhouse, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2000 for $499,000, which was previously owned by Carl M. Daquila and Dolores M. Daquila, and which is currently owned by Barbara Daquila. Unit 3 is a 1848 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided condominium/rowhouse, with a detached garage, and which is currently owned by the trustee of Barbara T. Anderson. Unit 4 is a 1848 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided condominium/rowhouse, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2000 for $519,000, and which is currently owned by Bonni Rodin.
735-739 Summit Avenue: Former First Church of Christ Scientist/River of Life Church; Built in 1913; Neoclassical/Classical Revival in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that the First Church of Christ, Scientist, was located at this address in 1914. The First Church of Christ Scientist congregation was first located in the Barteau Hotel during the period 1892-1896. The church met in several other buildings until 1913, when this church building was completed at an estimated cost of $70,000. The building is on the National register of Historic Places. Pastor Arnold P. Williams (1939-1998) was the founder of the church and Pastor Bettie Williams, his widow, is the current Senior Pastor of River of Life Christian Church. Pastor Bettie Williams worked in the mission fields in Nigeria, Belize, Guatemala, Rome, London, and a Canadian Indian Reservation and has earned a Doctorate Degree of Divinity from the Minnesota Graduate School of Theology. The current owner of record of the property is River of Life Ministries. [See note on Johnston.]
749 Summit Avenue: Rush B. Wheeler and Harriet Wheeler House/Jason W. Cooper II House, Built in 1888 (1904 according to the National Register of Historic Places and 1894 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Victorian in style; William H. Willcox and Clarence H. Johnston, architects. The building is a two story, 5826 square foot, seven bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, stone house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 1997 for $555,000. Construction of the house cost either $12,500 (Ernest R. Sandeen) or $22,000 (Paul Larson.) This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Rush B. Wheeler resided at this address from 1889 to 1895. The 1889 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Rush B. Wheeler and Miss Mellie Wheeler resided at this address. The 1891 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Rush B. Wheeler and Miss Mellie R. Clark resided at this address. The 1893 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Rush Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Clark, and Miss Millie R. Clark resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Rush B. Wheeler resided at this address in 1893. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Jason W. Cooper II resided at this address from 1902 to 1906 and that Peter Siems resided at this address from 1907 to 1976. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Josephine A. Siems (1855-1917,) the widowed mother of Chester P. Siems, who was born in Wisconsin to parents born in the United States and who died of chronic nephritis arteriosclerosis, resided at this address in 1917. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mrs. Peter Siems, Allan G. Siems, Miss Beatrice Sefton, and C. H. Siems all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Siems and Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Siems all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Claude H. Siems resided at this address. Peter Siems (1842-1917) lived at this address in 1914 and was involved with the Shepard, Siems, & Company. In 1934, Allan Gleason Siems, Claude Harris Siems, Irene O'Connor Siems, Kate Siems, Allen Siems, and Jane Siems resided at this address. The 1991 St. Paul's on-the-Hill Episcopal Church directory indicates that Julia Bergstrom, Lucas Bergstrom, and Katrina Bergstrom resided at this address. Rush Wheeler (1844-1930) was born in South Butler, New York, was the son of Orange Hill Wheeler and Eve Tucker Wheeler, graduated from Yale University in 1871, came to Minnesota in 1873, read the law in the law office of his brother, E. O. Wheeler, in Austin, Minnesota, and was admitted to the practice of law in 1876, moved to St. Paul in 1883, practiced real estate law and ran a real estate and loan business, was a director of the First National Bank of Austin, was the president of the Real Estate Exchange of St. Paul in 1894, was the treasurer of the Y.M.C.A., and was a director of the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce for 15 years. He also was the secretary, treasurer, and ultimately president of the Summit Avenue Improvement Association, an organization that was formed in 1887 to create a park-like boulevard for Summit Avenue, which was realized on the street west of Lexington Avenue. Rush Wheeler married Harriet S. Clark in 1876 and the couple had four children, Frost M. Wheeler, Cleora Clark Wheeler, Everett Wheeler, and Ross Wheeler. Cleora Wheeler (1882- ) was born in Austin, Minnesota. Allan Gleason Siems was a 1908 graduate of Yale University, was a member of the University Club and the St. Paul Athletic Club in 1934, and wintered at Miami Beach, Florida. Jason W. Cooper (1843- ,) the son of Ezra Cooper and Maria F. Johnson Cooper, was born in Coopersville, New York, attended the district schools of Clinton County, New York, until 1857, was employed by his father until 1861, enlisted in Army of the Potomac at Champlain, New York, moved to St. Paul in 1864, engaged in the lumber business for two years, traveled for a wholesale grocery business, married Sarah H. Dougan in 1875, entered the firm of Griggs & Cooper, wholesale grocers, as a partner of Milton Griggs and David C. Shepard in 1889, became the vice president of the successor business, Griggs, Cooper & Company, officed at Thrid Street and Broadway Avenue in 1907, was a Presbyterian, was a Republican, was a Mason, was a member of the board of directors of the St. Paul Commercial Club, was a member of the St. Paul Town & Country Club, was a member of the board of directors of the American National Bank of St. Paul. The Claude Harris Siems and Irene O'Connor Siems family were members of the Minikahda Country Club, the Somerset Club, the White Bear Yacht Club, the Minneapolis Club, the University Club, and the Indian Creek Club in 1934, and wintered at Miami Beach, Florida. Peter Siems was associated with the Shepard, Siems, & Company of St. Paul. Claude H. Siems was a railroad contractor. Irene Siems wrote the music and lyrics to the songs "To the Red Cross" and "To the girls in the Red Cross canteen" in 1941 and 1942 respectively. Jason Walker Cooper (1843-1925,) the son of Ezra E. Cooper (1810-1885) and Maria Fanny Johnson Cooper (1818-1901,) was born in Champlain, Clinton County, New York/Cooperstown, New York, served in the 34th New York Regiment in the American Civil War, moved to Minnesota in 1864, initially resided in Minneapolis, fathered a daughter, Ruth Helen Cooper, subsequently resided in St. Paul, was in business with Chauncey W. Griggs, C. Milton Griggs, and David C. Shepard, importers and wholesale grocers, in 1889, was the second vice president of Griggs, Cooper & Company, and died in Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California. Rush B. Wheeler ( -1930) and Allan Gleason Siems ( -1943) both died in Ramsey County. Claude Henry Siems (1865-1956) was born outside of Minnesota and died in Hennepin County. Irene O'Connor Siems (1889-1976) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Olson, and died in Ramsey County. Cleora Clark Wheeler (1882-1980) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Clark, and died in Ramsey County. Ross Wheeler ( -1948) died in Hennepin County. Everett Clark Wheeler (1884-1893,) who died of diabetes, was the son of Rush B. Wheeler. The previous owner of record of the property was Avex Lowry Limited Partnership, located in Dallas, Texas, and the current owner of record of the property is John W. Knapp, located in Dallas, Texas. [See note on Johnston.] [See note on Rush Wheeler and Cleora Wheeler for 1376 Summit Avenue] [See the note for the Griggs, Cooper & Company for 901 Euclid Street.]
755 Summit Avenue: Former Henry E. Hutchings Residence. The property is a tax exempt vacant lot. The former house at this address was built in 1902 and was razed in 1974 according to the Minnesota Historical Society. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Henry E. Hutchings resided at this address from 1903 to 1909. The book of Minnesotans: a biographical dictionary of leading living men of Minnesota, edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, indicates that Henry E. Hutchings resided at this address in 1907. The 1916 University of Minnesota Alumni Directory indicates that Wallace Cole resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that the residents at this address were Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Cole, Dr. Wallace Cole, Miss Alice Rose, and Miss Allie Neely. Wallace Cole was a World War I veteran who resided at this address in 1919. The 1920 city directory indicates that Hayden S. Cole, the president of the Investment Service Company, resided at this address and that Wallace H. Cole, a physician who officed at the Lowry Building, boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Cole resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Haydn S. Cole, a lawyer who officed at the Endicott Building, and his wife, Mary M. Cole, resided at this address. In 1934, Colonel Hayden S. Cole and Maybelle Profer Cole both resided at this address. Colonel Hayden S. Cole graduated from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point in 1885. Hayden S. Cole was the son of William Henry Cole, a physician in Henry county, Illinois, and was the grandson of Dr. C. H. Cole, a Civil War veteran who resided in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Henry E. Hutchings (1858- ,) the son of John Hutchings and Mary Whitbourne Hutchings, was born in London, England, was educated in the public schools of London, England, emigrated to America in 1873, was employed by D. McInnes & Company, a wholesale dry goods located at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, until 1875, then was connected with the credit department of Keith Brothers & Company, a wholesale millinery, hats and caps firm, in Chicago, Illinois, from 1875 until 1879, removed to St. Joseph, Missouri, married Aley Turnbull at Chicago, Illinois, in 1883, then became a partner in Wyeth Hardware & Manufacturing Company and remained with the company for 17 years, then was a partner in Burnham, Hanna, Munger & Company, a wholesale dry goods firm located in Kansas City, Missouri, until 1901, came to St. Paul, was a partner with George M. Tibbs in 1901 in the purchase of a controlling interest in the Powers Dry Goods Company, a wholesale dry goods firm that became Tibbs, Hutchings & Company, was a vice president of Tibbs, Hutchings & Company after 1901, was a Minnesota representative at the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress in 1905, was a Presbyterian, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a member of the Country Club, was a member of the Commercial Club, and officed at the corner of Fifth Street and Wacouta Street in 1907. Tibbs, Hutchings & Company was organized in 1901 and was bankrupt in 1911. Dr. C. H. Cole (1818- ) was a son of John Cole and Catherine Letts Cole, was born in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, married Sylvan Waller in 1837, graduated from the Geneva Medical College in 1848, and was a surgeon of the 172nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War. Wallace Cole (1888-1973) was a 1910 graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School, was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, was a member of the Nu Sigma Nu fraternity, was a member of the Sigma Psi fraternity, was a physician, treated polio patients, was the director of the Orthopaedic Surgery Division at the University of Minnesota from 1933 until 1956, collaborated with Sister Elizabeth Kenny (1880-1952,) an Australian nurse, in her novel treatments of polio, was active in educational activities at the Gillette Crippled Children's Hospital, the Shrine Hospital, and the Veterans Administration Hospital, retired from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1956, was a member of the editorial board of the St. Paul Medical Journal in 1917, was a member of the University Club, and officed at Lowry Building in 1916. There is a Doctor Wallace H. Cole Library Foundation Inc. and a Wallace Cole Orthopaedic Society. The current owner of record of the property is the House of Hope Presbyterian Church, located at 797 Summit Avenue.
760 Summit Avenue: P. J. Bowlin House. This was the site of the former Patrick J. Bowlin house, designed by Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., constructed in 1892, and razed in 1938. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Patrick J. Bowlin resided at this address from 1893 to 1931. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mrs. H. C. Smith, P. J. Bowlin, his daughter, and H. R. Smith all resided at this address. Harold R. Smith was a World War I veteran who resided at this address in 1919. The 1920 city directory indicates that Patrick J. Bowlin, the president of the Bowlin Realty Company, resided at this address. The 1920 city directory also indicates that Harold R. Smith was a salesman and boarded at this address. In 1920, the United States Adjutant-General's Office U. S. Army Register, Volume VIII, indicates that Harold Raymond Smith (1892- ,) a Second Lieutenant in the Infantry Section, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mrs. Nannie Bowlin, Mrs. H. C. Smith, and Mrs. H. R. Smith all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Nannie L. Bowlin, secretary of the Bowlin Realty Company, resided at this address. Frank J. Bowlin was the president of the Bowlin Realty Compamy in 1930 and resided at 1617 Summit Avenue. Robert J. Bowlin (1906-1963) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Hankel, and died in Ramsey County. Patrick Bowlin (1830-1905) was born in Ireland and died in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Harold R. Smith (1892-1966) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Bowlin, and died in Ramsey County. [See note on Johnston.]
761 Summit Avenue: Gebhard Bohn and Lena Bohn House/Gechart Bohn House; Built in 1883 (1904 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival/Beaux Arts/Renaissance Revival in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect; Lauer Brothers (Laner Brothers according to the National Register of Historic Places,) builder. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Gebhard Bohn resided at this address from 1905 to 1944. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Gebhard Bohn and their daughter resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Gebhard Bohn, the president of the Flaxlinum Insulating Company, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Gebhard Bohn resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Lena Bohn, the widow of Gebhard Bohn, resided at this address. In 1934, Lena Nocken Bohn, the widow of Gebhard Bohn, resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that John Frederick Bushnell, who attended the school from 1931 until 1934 and from 1935 until 1938 and attended Dartmouth College, resided at this address. Gebhard Bohn (1854-1924) was born in Germany, was the son of Adam and Elizabeth Bohn, came to Minnesota in 1872, married Lena Nockin of Wisconsin in 1875, ran a retail lumber business in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, in 1877, shifted from the sash and trim lumber business in 1897-1899, and eventually founded the White Enamel Refrigerator Company. The 1899 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Gebhard Bohn and their daughter resided at 376 Bates Avenue. Gebhard Bohn was the president of the White Enamel Refrigerator Company, which, after being absorbed with other companies, developed into the Whirlpool Corporation. Gebhard Bohn and Lena Bohn had five children, Gebhard C. Bohn (1878- ,) vice president of the White Enamel Refrigerator Company, Cora Bohn (Mrs. William S.) Chase, Ida Bohn, William Bohn, and Anna Bohn. Gebhard Bohn eventually moved to Lake Minnetonka. Arthur Richardson Nichols (1880-1970) was a landscape architect who designed the grounds for Gedhard Bohn's Minnetonka house. The house was built for $20,000 (Sandeen and Larson.) Gebhard C. Bohn (1908-1982) was born in Minnesota and died in Hennepin County. Cora M. Chase (1879-1974) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Nockin, and died in Hennepin County. Ida Bohn ( -1939) died in Winona County, Minnesota, and Ida Bohn ( -1947) died in Wilkin County, Minnesota. [See note on Johnston.]
768 Summit Avenue: Hermann Kretz and Helen Kretz House; Built in 1900 (1898 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Victorian in style; Hermann Kretz, architect. The building is a two story, 3523 square foot, five bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, stone house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2000 for $565,000. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Kretz and Miss Helen E. Kretz all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Herman Kretz resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Hermann Kretz, an architect with an office at the Commerce Building, and his wife, Helen B. Kretz, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The house was built for $11,000. Hermann Kretz was the original owner and occupant of this house. Kretz and his wife lived in this house at least until 1912. The current owners of record of the property are Joseph P. Beckman and Kathleen R. Beckman. [See note on Kretz for 579 Summit Avenue.]
775-795 Summit Avenue: House of Hope Presbyterian Church; Built in 1903 (1913 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) English Perpendicular/Gothic Revival in style; Ralph Adams Cram of the architectural firm Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, a Boston and New York-based firm, architect. The 2.51 acre site contains three buildings, the two story, 24642 square foot, church, a three story, 7596 square foot, building that was built in 1903, and a two story, 49584 square foot, building that was built in 1958. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Little Sketches of Big Folks indicates that Henry E. Hutchings resided at this address in 1907. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that William Fletcher Graves (1850-1911,) the husband of Belle Graves, who was born in Vermont to parents who were born in the United States and who died of nephritis-arteriosclerosis, resided at 779 Summit Avenue in 1911. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Cadwell and H. W. Cadwell all resided at this address. The 1922 Who's Who in Finance and Banking indicates that James Lynn Mitchell (1884- ,) the son of John Lamb Mitchell and Harriet Raymond Mitchell, who graduated from Yale University in 1907, who was president and a director of the Capital National Bank of St. Paul, who was vice president and a director of the Capital Trust and Savings Bank, who was vice president and a director of the St. Paul Electric Company, who was a director of Noyes Brothers & Cutler, who was a member of the Executive Committee of the Ramsey County Liberty Loan Campaign, who was a director of the St. Paul YMCA, who was a member of the University Club, who was a member of the Minnesota Club, who was a member of the White Bear Yacht Club, who was a member of the Somerset Club, who was a member of the Town & Country Club, and who was a member of the St. Paul Athletic Club, resided at 779 Summit Avenue. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that C. Arnold Kalman (1919- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1929 until 1937, and who was a 1941 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, resided at this address. Henry E. Hutchings (1858- ,) the son of John Hutchings and Mary Whitbourne Hutchings, was born in London, England, was educated in London, England, emigrated to Canada in 1873, was employed with D. Mclnnes & Company, a dry goods merchant, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, from 1873 to 1875, was employed in the credit department of Keith Brothers & Company, a millinery and hats merchant, in Chicago from 1875 until 1879, moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, was engaged with Wyeth Hardware & Manufacturing Company, and later was a member of that firm during the period from 1879 untl 1895, married Aley Turnbull of Chicago in 1883, moved to Kansas City, Missouri, as a partner in the firm of Burnham, Hanna, Munger & Company, a dry goods merchant from 1895 until 1901, moved to St. Paul in 1901, with George M. Tibbs, purchased the Powers Dry Goods Company in 1901, renamed the firm Tibbs, Hutchings & Company, is a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a member of the St. Paul Town & Country Club, and officed at the corner of Fifth Street and Wacouta Street. When the Territory of Minnesota was organized in 1849, a young missionary from Philadelphia, the Reverend Edward Duffield Neill, set out to form its first Presbyterian congregations. Reverend Neill founded the First Presbyterian Church in downtown St. Paul in 1849, and he started a second congregation on Christmas Eve, 1855, and named it "House of Hope." Neill was the author of A Concise History of the State of Minnesota (1887,) of The History of Minnesota (1858,) of Terra Mariae, or, Threads of Maryland Colonial History (1868,) of The Fairfaxes of England and America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1868,) Of History of the Virginia Company of London (1869,) of The Founders of Maryland as Portrayed in Manuscripts, Provinical Records and Early Documents (1876,) of Minnesota Explorers and Pioneers from A.D. 1659 to A.D. 1858 (1881,) of Virginia Vetusta, during the Reign of James the First (1885,) and of Virginia Carolorum: the Colony under the Rule of Charles the First and Second, A. D. 1625-A. D. 1685 (1886.) Neill was a student at Amherst and Andover (1842-1844,) a Presbyterian home missionary in Illinois (1847-1848,) a Presbyterian minister in St. Paul, Minnesota (1849-1860,) the founder of churches in Minnesota, state superintendent of education and chancellor of the University of Minnesota (1858-1861,) chaplain of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry and of the Philadelphia hospitals (1861-1864,) American consul at Dublin, Ireland (1869-1871,) and president of and professor at Macalester College (1873-1893.) Neill also was an historian of Minnesota and of colonial America, especially Virginia and Maryland. In 1859, Neill gave a series of evening lectures on the life of David at the Chapel of the House of Hope, including a lecture entitled "Michal, or, Fashionable dancing: an undignified amusement for a Christian." According to the 1910 federal census, the House of Hope Presbyterian Church was located on Fifth Street at the northwest corner with Exchange Street and had a membership of 997. In 1910, the Reverend H. C. Swearingen (1869-1932) was the pastor of the church and Charles P. Noyes was the president of the board of trustees of the church. In 1910, the House of Hope Presbyterian Church also had established, in 1895, the House of Hope Presbyterian Chapel as a mission of the parent church on Bradley Street at the northwest corner with Partridge Street, with a membership of 180, and with the Reverend R. R. Otis as pastor. The two churches, established by Reverend Edward Duffield Neill, merged under the direction of Dr. Henry Chapman Swearingen in 1914, who oversaw the construction of the existing church building for the new congregation. The church was built for about $250,000. Dr. Swearingen represented the high mark in personality and leadership, serving as moderator of the national church while ministering in St. Paul. Other leaders in church history include Irving Adams West, who served between 1943 and 1969, and Calvin Whitefield Didier, who served between 1969 and 1993. Reverend Calvin Didier officiated at the late Senator Hubert Humphrey's funeral in 1978. The current pastor is Linda C. Loving. The House of Hope has a congregation of 1400 members and is part of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) The Swearingen burial plot at Oakland Cemetery includes the graves of Henry Chapman Swearingen D.D., L.D.D., (1869-1932,) Henry Chapman Swearingen, Jr., (1908-1922,) and Belle Comin Swearingen ( -1946.) Henry C. Swearingen (1908-1922) attended St. Paul Academy from 1919 until 1922. Charles Phelps Noyes resided at 235 Summit Avenue. In 1941, James Lynn Mitchell had left the Capital National Bank of St. Paul and was a member of the New York Stock Exchange. James Lynn Mitchell married Ruth Brundred (1887- ,) a daughter of Benjamin F. Brundred (1849-1914) and Elizabeth Dilworth Loomis Brundred, in Oil City, Pennsylvania, in 1908 and the couple had four children, Ruth Mitchell (1909- ,) Benjamin Brundred Mitchell (1912- ,) Mary Lida Mitchell (1916- ,) and Lois Mitchell. Daniel Rogers Noyes (1836-1908,) Charles Henry Bigelow (1835-1911,) Herman Knox Taylor (1830-1911,) and Robert Alexander Kirk (1837-1913) were elders in the House of Hope Presbyterian Church before World War I. Daniel Rogers Noyes (1836-1908) was born in Lyme, Connecticut, moved to Minnesota in 1868, settled in St. Paul, was a founder of Noyes Brothers & Cutler, a wholesale drug supply company, with Charles P. Noyes, Winthrop G. Noyes, and Edward H. Cutler, in 1879, resided at 92 College Avenue, supported philanthropic work, was the founder and president of the St. Paul Relief Association, and died in St. Paul. Winthrop Gilman Noyes (1869-1931) was the son of Daniel R. Noyes, was a partner with Edward H. Cutler in Noyes Brothers & Cutler, was active in the Minnesota State Pharmaceutical Association in 1901, and was the chairman of the building committee of the Young Men's Christian Association. In 1896, Winthrop G. Noyes returned from Genoa, Italy, to New york on the Werra. The Noyes Prizes at Carlton College were founded in 1908 by the Daniel R. Noyes. Daniel Rogers Noyes, the son of Daniel Rogers Noyes and Phoebe Griffin Lord Noyes, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of grandfather Thomas Noyes, a First Lieutenant in Lippit's Rhode Island Regiment, and great grandfather Joseph Noyes, a Colonel in the First Kings County Rhode Island Militia, during the Revolutionary War. Winthrop S. Gilman Noyes, the son of Daniel Rogers Noyes and Helen Abia Gilman Noyes, the grandson of Daniel Rogers Noyes and Phoebe Griffin Lord Noyes and of Winthrop S. Gilman and Abbia Swift Lippincott Gilman, and the great grandson of Benjamin Ives Gilman and Hannah Robbins Gilman, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great grandfather Thomas Noyes, a First Lieutenant in Lippit's Rhode Island Regiment, and of great grandfathers Joseph Noyes, a Colonel in the First Kings County Rhode Island Militia, and Joseph Gilman, Chairman of the Exeter, New Hampshire, Committtee of Safety, during the Revolutionary War. Charles Henry Bigelow was born in Easton, New York, married Alda Wood Lyman in 1859 in Middlefield, Minnesota, was engaged in relief activities after the Moose Lake, Minnesota fire of 1918, and was president of Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk & Co. The couple had one child, Charles Henry Bigelow, II (1866-1945,) who was born in St. Paul, was educated at Williams College (1883-1887,) first married Florence Fairchild at St. Paul in 1896, and the couple had one son, Donald Bigelow (1896-1974,) and subsequently married Allison McKibbin Bigelow (1881-1970,) the daughter of businessman Joseph McKibbin. Charles H. Bigelow and Frederic R. Bigelow were associated with the St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company. Robert Alexander Kirk was associated with the Citizens' Association of St. Paul, a local unit of the Citizens' Industrial Association of America, which was organized after the 1902 anthracite coal strike to attempt to curb the power of labor unions and to find ways to resist strikes and boycotts. The gothic surroundings of the sanctuary house the massive C. B. Fisk organ, Opus 78, with 97 ranks of pipes and 63 stops. In 1879, Joseph McKibbin, a bookkeeper employed by Gordon & Ferguson, boarded at 92 12th Street. Henry C. Swearingen ( -1952) died in Anoka County, Minnesota. Daniel R. Noyes ( -1908,) Robert Alexander Kirk ( -1913,) Alida W. Bigelow ( -1923,) Edward Hutchins Cutler ( -1935,) Joseph McKibbin ( -1941,) Charles Henry Bigelow ( -1943,) and Frederic Russell Bigelow ( -1946) all died in Ramsey County. Florence F. Bigelow (1867-1905) was born in the United States and died in Ramsey County. Allison McKibbin Bigelow (1881-1970) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Dorsey, and died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is the House of Hope Presbyterian Church. The book of Minnesotans: a biographical dictionary of leading living men of Minnesota, edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, indicates that William F. Graves resided at the former nearby 779 Summit Avenue in 1907. William F. Graves (1850- ,) the son of Rev. William Plummer, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and Mary Unity Fletcher Graves, was born at Bristol, Vermont, was educated at the public schools of Middletown, Connecticut, attended the Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, for one year, graduated from the Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington, Illinois, with a bachelor's degree in 1871 and with a master's degree in 1874, was the chair of ancient languages and literature at the Upper Iowa University at Fayette, Iowa, from 1871 until 1873, that was a pro tem professor of English language and literature at the Illinois Wesleyan University from 1874 until 1875, was admitted to the practice of law in Indiana, practiced law at Indianapolis, Indiana, from 1875 until 1880, was an associate manager of the Middlesex Banking Company of Middletown, Connecticut, from 1880 until 1896, married Belle Hitchcock at St. Paul in 1884, was the treasurer of the Middlesex Banking Company in 1891, was the Western manager of the Middlesex Banking Company after 1896, was the president of the Graves & Vinton Cotton Company of Memphis, Tennessee, was a Republican, was a member People's Church of St. Paul, was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a member of the St. Paul Town and Country Club, was a member of the Tennessee Club, was a member of the New Memphis Jockey Club of Memphis, Tennessee, and officed at the Pioneer Press Building in 1907.
776 Summit Avenue: 776 Summit Avenue; Built in 1901 (1891 according to the National Register of Historic Places and 1905 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Victorian/Mildly Colonial in style; J. W. Stevens, architect. The building is a two story, 2944 square foot, six bedroom, four bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. The owner of the house was once listed as Mrs. C. G. McCarthy. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Angus McLeod (1860-1924,) the husband of Jean S. McLeod, who was born in Canada to parents born in Canada and who died of coronary embolism, resided at this address in 1924. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Angus McLeod and their daughter resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Jean S. McLeod, the widow of Angus McLeod, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Timothy J. McCarty once lived at this address. McCarty was a ticket clerk for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, & Omaha Railway. The house was constructed for $6,000. In 1879, Angus McLeod, a laborer employed by the St. Paul & Duluth RailRoad, resided at 11 Maria Avenue. Angus McLeod lived at this address in 1914. Timothy J. McCarty ( -1929) died in Dakota County. Angus McLeod (1868-1955) was born outside of Minnesota and died in St. Louis County, Minnesota. The Tomah & Saint Croix Railway was built in 1865 and became the West Wisconsin RailRoad in 1869. In 1879, the North Wisconsin Railway was built. In 1880, The North Wisconsin Railway became part of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway, or the "Omaha." In 1883, the West Wisconsin RailRoad also was absorbed by the Omaha, which was first controlled as a separate company until 1957, was then acquired by the Chicago & Northwestern RailRoad, and is now a part of the Union Pacific RailRoad. The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha RailRoad had its shops at Randolph and Duke Streets in St. Paul. The current owner of record of the property is Scott Martin Hayman. Scott Hayman is a member of the Minnesota Sustainable Communities Network. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Mitchell resided at the former nearby 779 Summit Avenue. The 1930 city directory indicates that Charles O. Kalman resided at the former 779 Summit Avenue. [See note on Stevens for 335 Summit Avenue.]
780 Summit Avenue: 780 Summit Avenue; Built in 1909 (1910 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival/Colonial Revival in style; __?__ Sunburg, architect. The building is a two story, 3744 square foot, eight bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2003 for $890,000. The house was built at a cost of $8,500 for owner Clarence A. Waldon. The 1918 city directory indicates that Rev. and Mrs. H. C. Swearingen and J. Ross Moore all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Rev. and Mrs. H. C. Swearingen resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Rev. H. C. Swearingen, pastor of House of Hope Presbyterian Church, his wife, Belle Swearingen, and Isabel Swearingen, a stenographer, all resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Waldon apparently did not live in the house, but owned a home in Minneapolis. According to the 1910 federal census, the pastor of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church, Reverend H. C. Swearingen, resided at this address. In 1927, the house was owned by the House of Hope Presbyterian Church and functioned as a pastor's residence. Rev. Henry Chapman Swearingen, D.D., LL.D., chaired a special commission for the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in 1925, known as the Swearingen Commission, to promote purity and peace within the Church. There also was a Swearingen Commission on ordination disputes in 1927. A letter from Henry Chapman Swearingen to Amos William Butler, a zoologist, archaeologist, mental health expert, and sociologist from Indiana, is in the Butler archive at the University of Indiana. Henry Chapman Swearingen was a trustee of Macalester College. Henry Chapman Swearingen had a reputation of being a moderate church official. Clarence A. Waldon ( -1952) died in Hennepin County. Henry C. Swearingen ( -1952) died in Anoka County, Minnesota. The most recent sale of the property occurred in 2005 and the sale price was $995,000. The previous owners of record of the property were Dana A. Berg and David P. Berg and the current owners of record of the property are Kathryn J. Bergstrom and Paul W. Bergstrom. Paul W. Bergstrom is a plaintiff personal injury and wrongful death attorney and is a member of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Association of Matrimonial Lawyers. Katie Bergstrom and Paul Bergstrom are the parents of Henry Bergstrom, a French immersion school student in Independent School District No. 625, St. Paul.
786 Summit Avenue: Ella A. Sanders House/Mrs. J. H. Saunders House; Built in 1909 (1905 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival/Colonial Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The building is a two story, 3656 square foot, eight bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 1997 for $300,000. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mrs. J. H. Sanders and her daughter resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Finkelstein and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Friedman all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Fannie Finkelstein, the widow of Lewis Finkelstein, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The house was built for J. T. Landers. Ella A. Sanders was the widow of Joshua H. Sanders. The house was constructed for $14,000. Joshua Sanders was the president of the Northwestern Lime Company and resided at 271 Summit Avenue in 1882. Ella Augusta Sanders ( -1934) died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Ann M. O'Callaghan. [See note on Lockwood for 726 Summit Avenue.]
790 Summit Avenue: J. G. Hammond House; Built in 1899 (1905 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival/Tudor Revival/Colonial Revival in style. The building is a two story, 3994 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, brick house. The house was owned by James G. Hammond ( -1912.) The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Terrett and their daughter resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brockman and G. H. Terrett all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Frederic G. Dorety, vice president and general counsel for the Great Northern RailRoad, and Lawrence G. Dorety, a lawyer, resided at this address. James Gurley Hammond (1854-1912,) the son of William H. Hammond and Eliza Baker Hammond, was born at Ottumwa, Iowa, attended the public schools of Ottumwa, Iowa, attended Iowa Wesleyan University, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, from 1871 until 1874, was a member of Kramer & Hammond, merchants, New Sharon, Iowa, from 1876 until 1886, married Clara Graham in 1877, was the president of the New Sharon, Iowa, State Bank after 1886, was the president of the Oskaloosa, Iowa, Savings Bank from 1890 until 1899, was the president of the Hammond-Forsyth Banking Company, Corinne, Utah, from 1899 until 1901, moved to St. Paul in 1902, was president of the Dakota-Manitoba Land Company, a real estate investment firm, was president of the Mexico Land Company, was the vice president of the Bear River Land Company, was the secretary of the Economy Coal Company, was a member of the board of directors of the Hammond Cattle Company, was a member of the Hammond & Dodson Lands Company, was a member of the Commercial Club of St. Paul, resided at 327 Prior Avenue in 1907, officed at the Endicott Arcade in 1907, and resided at this address in 1911. James G. Hammond owned the house for investment purposes. He lived at 327 Prior Avenue from at least 1906 until his death. The current owner of record of the property is Marianne Costanzi, located at Landers, California. Marianne Costanzi was a financial supporter of the Cathedral of St. Paul and of the Summit Hill Association in 2006. [See note on the Great Northern RailRoad.]
796 Summit Avenue: Frank Dodson House ; Built in 1901 (1889 according to the National Register of Historic Places and 1911 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Colonial Revival in style. The building is a two story, 3994 square foot, eight bedroom, three bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 1996 for $346,000. This house and the adjacent house are nearly mirror images of each other, but each has different decorative details and building materials, giving each a distinctive appearance. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Frank Dodson resided at this address in 1905. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wolfer and C. R. Wolfer all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Lilly resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Richard C. Lilly, the president of the First National Bank of St. Paul, and his wife, Rachel C. Lilly, resided at this address. In 1934, Richard C. Lilly, Rachel Cunningham Lilly, John Lilly, and David Lilly resided at this address. The house was built for Frank Dodson. The original owner of this house was Jason W. Cooper, the Second Vice President of Griggs, Cooper, & Company, a wholesale grocery company. Cooper lived at 749 Summit Avenue. Frank Dodson lived at this address in 1914. The Lilly family were members of the Minikahda Country Club, the Somerset Club, the White Bear Yacht Club, and the Women's City Club of St. Paul in 1934. In 1929, Richard C. Lilly led a group of Twin Cities businessmen in a purchase Northwest Airways from its founder, Colonel Lewis Hotchkiss Brittin (1877-1952,) and the original Michigan investor group and Lilly was named president. Richard C. Lilly was a board member of the Merrick House school, now the Christ Child School for Exceptional Children, and helped the school move to the Summit Avenue site in 1950. Richard C. Lilly was the president of Merchant's National Bank of St. Paul and, in 1920, was a member of the Board of Directors of the Citizen's Alliance of Ramsey & Dakota Counties with Charles W. Ames of the Public Safety Commission, E. S. Warner, one of the founders of the Minnesota Employer's Association, M. W. Waldorf of Waldorf Paper Products Co., W. O. Washburn of American Hoist & Derrick Co., C.G. Roth of the St. Paul Hotel, J. G. Ordway of the Crane Co. of Minnesota, Frederick R. Bigelow of St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance, Leslie Gedney of Gedney Pickles, Cyrus P. Brown, President of First National Bank of St. Paul, and W. P. Kenny of the Great Northern Railway. A group of recovering alcoholic St. Paul businessmen, led by banker Richard Lilly, purchased a 217-acre farm called "Hazelden" in Chisago County through Lilly's Coyle Foundation. Lilly had an auto mishap while he was under the influence of alcohol which sent him over the St. Paul High Bridge into a sand-filled barge below. Richard Lilly lived, stopped drinking, and incorporated Hazelden in 1949, with himself as president. Will Oppenheimer, of the Oppenheimer Law Firm, and Richard Lilly were named as the executors of Herbert Bigelow's estate in 1933 and they selected Charlie Ward to run the Brown & Bigelow Company. In 1935, Richard Lilly and Rachel Lilly created a trust for the benefit of their son, John Cunningham Lilly. In 1997, the potential survivors of John C. Lilly unsuccessfully challenged distributions of trust principal that occurred between 1986 and 1994 in the form of payments to John Lilly and loans to the remainder beneficiaries before the Minnesota Court of Appeals in In the Matter of the Trust Created by Richard C. Lilly and Rachel C. Lilly. John Cunningham Lilly, B.Sc., M.D., (1915-2001) was born in St. Paul, the son of Richard C. Lilly and Rachel C. Lilly, graduated in 1933 from the St. Paul Academy, in 1938 from the California Institute of Technology, in 1940 from the Dartmouth Medical School, and in 1942 from the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, was a professor of Medical Physics and of Experimental Neurology at the Department of Biophysics and Medical Physics (Eldridge Reeves Johnson Foundation) of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine from 1942 to 1956, was the Senior Surgeon Grade of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Corps from 1953 to 1958, was Section Chief of the Section on Cortical Integration in the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness and in the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, from 1953 to 1958, was Founder and Director of the Communications Research Institute at Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, and Miami, Florida, from 1959 to 1968, was Research Career Award Fellow at the National Institiute of Mental Health from 1962 to 1967, was Group Leader and Associate in Residence at the Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California, from 1969 to 1971, and was Treasurer of Human Software, Inc., of Malibu, California, from 1973 to 2001. Richard C. Lilly ( -1928) and Frank Dodson ( -1928) both died in Ramsey County. Rachel Cunningham Lilly ( -1953) died in Dakota County, Minnesota. The current owners of record of the property are Brenda K. Hardy and James B. Hardy. The 1930 city directory indicates that the House of Hope Presbyterian Church was located at the former 797 Summit Avenue West. [See note for the Minikahda Club for 702 Fairmount Avenue.] [See the note for the Griggs, Cooper & Company for 901 Euclid Street.]
796 Summit Avenue: The property contains three buildings, with the two story, 49,584 square foot, building #1 built in 1958, with the three story, 7,596 square foot, building #2 built in 1904, and the two story, 24,642 square foot, building #3 built in 1913. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Myles H. Johns (1917- ,) who was born in Chicago, who attended the school from 1928 until 1937, who was a 1941 graduate of Washington University of St. Louis, Missouri, who married Page Goggin in St. Louis in 1939, and who was employed as the national advertising solicitor by the St. Paul Dispatch, resided at this address. The current owner of the property is the House of Hope Presbyterian Church.
807 Summit Avenue: ; Samuel Dittenhofer and Madeline Dittenhofer House; Built in 1900 (1906 according to Sandeen; 1906-1908 and 1911 addition, according to Larson;) Tudor Villa/Tudor Revival in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect. The three story, 11317 square foot, structure is now a commercial building and was last sold in 1999 with a sale price of $825,000. The house was built at a cost of $30,000 (Sandeen; $45,000 plus $2,000 for the addition according to Larson). This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The house was built by Jacob Dittenhofer, who was one of the founders of the Golden Rule Department Store, as a wedding gift for his son, Samuel Dittenhofer, and his bride, 17 year old Madeline Lang. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Samuel W. Dittenhofer resided at this address from 1908. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Dittenhofer resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Samuel W. Dittenhofer, the treasurer of the Golden Rule, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Dittenhofer resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Samuel W. Dittenhofer, the chairman of the board of the Golden Rule Department Store and vice president of the Dittenhofer Realty Company, his wife, Madeline Dittenhofer, and S. William Dittenhofer, a clerk employed by Northwest Airways, Inc., all resided at this address. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that the Christian Brothers Provincialate was located at this address from 1967. Samuel Dittenhofer, Madeline Dittenhofer, and their children, Elinor Dittenhofer and Samuel William Dittenhofer ( -1981), lived in the house until 1936. In 1934, Samuel Dittenhofer and Madeline Lane Dittenhofer resided at this address and were members of the Minikahda Country Club. Samuel Dittenhofer (1877- ,) the son of Jacob and Bettie Elsinger Dittenhofer, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, was educated at a St. Paul public schools, graduated from the Shattuck Military Academy, Faribault, Minnesota, in 1895, was a department store merchant, entered the Golden Rule Department Store as salesman, in 1895, became a member of the Golden Rule Department Store firm in 1899, was The Golden Rule Department Store vice president and general manager after 1905, engaged in the hobby of automobiling, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, and officed at 95 East Seventh Street in 1907. The Dittenhofers were traveling in Europe when World War II broke out and, since Samuel Dittenhofer was ill, they remained in Paris during the occupation. Samuel Dittenhofer died in Paris in 1952 and Madeline Dittenhofer returned to St. Paul, but never lived in this house. In 1966, Madeline Dittenhofer presented the house and many of its furnishings to the Christian Brothers Provincialate. Since the house had been vacant for over 30 years, it needed major renovation. The drawing room was refurbished by John O'Brien Kessler III. The house is reported to be haunted. Johnston also designed a garage for the property, in 1909, at a cost of $4,000. Samuel William Dittenhofer married Mary Hague Babson in 1948 and the couple had one child, Samuel William Dittenhofer (1951- .) Mary Hague Babson Dittenhofer had been married previously, to Dr. Adam Borden Polson, in Oregon, and the Polsons had two sons, Peter Gorham Polson (1938- ) and Alexander McCleen Polson (1941- .) Another Picture of the House The current owners of record of the property are Sandra K. Savik and Joseph H. Tashjian. Joseph H. Tashjian and Sandra Kay Savik, a statistician at the University of Minnesota, were contributors to the John Kerry for President campaign in 2004. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
808 Summit Avenue: Horace E. Thompson House/Charles Weyerhaeuser House; Built in 1903 (1887 according to the National Register of Historic Places and 1908 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Renaissance Revival in style; H. I. Wicks of the architectural firm Green & Wicks of Buffalo, New York, architect. The house was constructed for a cost of $35,000. Unit 1 is a 9684 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, three half-bathroom, brick condominium, which was last sold in 2002 and was sold for $945,000, and which is currently owned by Bryan J. Lynn. Unit 2 is a 5316 square foot, four bedroom, three bathroom, brick condominium, which was last sold in 1998 for a sale price of $298,000, which was previously owned by Susan M. Corridoni and Justin H. Kelly, and which is currently owned by Adam Ehrmantraut and Mary M. McMahon. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Horace E. Thompson resided at this address from 1905 to 1919 and that Charles A. Weyerhaeuser resided at this address from 1920 to 1942. The 1918 city directory indicates that H. E. Thompson and his daughter resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Horace E. Thompson (1854-1919,) who was born in Georgia to parents who were born in the United States and who died of cancer of the thigh, resided at this address in 1919. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Maud M. Weyerhaeuser, the widow of Charles A. Weyerhauser, resided at this address and that Benjamin P. Langenbrunner, a houseman employed by Maud M. Weyerhaeuser, resided at the rear. In 1934, Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser, the widow of Charles A. Weyerhaeuser, resided at this address and was a member of the Somerset Club, the Schubert Club, the Minikahda Country Club, and the Women's City Club of St. Paul. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Carl A. Weyerhaeuser, who attended the school in 1913 and who garduated from Harvard University in 1923, resided at this address. Horace Thompson (1827-1880) was born in Vermont, the son of Amos Thompson and Nancy Thompson of Poultney, Vermont, moved first to Georgia, then moved to Minnesota in 1860, and established Thompson Brothers Banking Company together with his brother, James Egbert Thompson (1823-1870), which eventually became the First National Bank of St. Paul, where he became the president in 1870. He was an incorporator and director of the St. Paul & Sioux City RailRoad, president of the Hudson & River Falls RailRoad, president of the Worthington & Sioux Falls RailRoad, treasurer of the Stillwater & Taylors Falls RailRoad, treasurer of the Chippewa Falls RailRoad, and treasurer of the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company. Horace Thompson also was the chair of the building committee of the First Baptist Church. Horace Thompson died in New York City. In Georgia, Horace Thompson married Carrie Scarborough Thompson, the daughter of Judge and Mrs. James Jackson Scarborough of Americus, Georgia, and the Thompsons had a son, Horace E. Thompson (1855-1919.) Horace E. Thompson managed land in Minnesota and Iowa. Horace Thompson was the uncle and James E. Thompson was the father of Lena Burton Thompson Clarke (1855- ,) the wife of Francis Byron Clarke (1839-1911,) who was the traffic manager of the Great Northern Railway and then the president of the Spokane, Portland, & Seattle Railway. In 1898, Francis Byron Clarke was the general traffic manager of the Northern Steamship Company, which was incorporated in 1888 by James J. Hill, allowing four Eastern railroad lines to became directly connected with the Great Northern Railroad, which runs from Duluth, Minnesota, to Everett, Washington, and Seattle, Washington, on the Pacific coast, and forming a closely connected throughway for freight from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific. Francis Byron Clarke (1839-1911) was born in Madison County, New York, settled in St. Paul in 1871, was employed by the West Wisconsin Railway Company, was the general manager of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway in 1880, married Lena B. Thompson (1855- ) in St. Paul in 1880, was the traffic manager of the Great Northern RailRoad, was elected a life member of the Minnesota Historical Society in 1882, was a law firm partner with James Cormican (1855-1931) in 1901, moved to Oregon in 1905, and died in Portland, Oregon. Lena B. Thompson Clarke and Francis Byron Clarke had two children, James Egbert Clarke (1878- ) and Francis Bryon Clarke (1880- .) Lena Clarke participated in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and was a member of the Board of Lady Managers of the Congress of Women that was held in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Parker Paine was the founder of the bank that became the First National Bank of St. Paul in 1853. James S. Thompson was a World War I veteran who resided at this address in 1919. Frances Maud Moon married Charles A. Weyerhaeuser in 1898 in Duluth, Minnesota, initially lived in Little Falls, Minnesota, and the Weyerhaeusers had two children, Carl Weyerhaeuser (1901-1996) and Sarah Maud Weyerhaeuser. Charles Augustus Weyerhaeuser died in Bombay, India, in 1930, and Frances Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Sanborn, well known as a soprano soloist, died in 1965. Minnesota Public Radio's St. Paul Sunday program, with Bill McGlaughlin, is produced in the Maud Moon Weyerhauser Studio, known informally as "Studio M," a spacious wood-floored room with a wall of 20-foot-tall windows looking out at St. Paul's cathedral district. Carl Weyerhaeuser was a student at Hotchkiss, a private school in Lakeville, Connecticut, graduated from Harvard University in 1923, with a BFA degree, married Edith Greenleaf Weyerhaeuser, was the chairman of the board of trustees of the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Massachussetts, where he donated his collection of American paintings, Asian art and Shaker furniture to the museum, contributed to the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, was a founding member of Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachussetts, was elected a fellow at the Forest History Society, and was a member of the Harvard Club, the University Club in Boston, the Country Club of Brookline, the Duxbury Yacht Club, and the Milton Hoosic Club. Carl Weyerhaeuser and Edith Greenleaf Weyerhaeuser had five children, Charles Weyerhaeuser, Robert Weyerhaeuser, Henry Weyerhaeuser, Elizabeth Weyerhaeuser, and Carrie Weyerhaeuser. Sarah Maud Weyerhaeuser married Robert Sivertsen. Horace E. Thompson ( -1919) died in Ramsey County. H. I. Wicks was an exception as an architect, since only a handful of houses on Summit Avenue were designed by out-of-state architects. The book of Minnesotans: a biographical dictionary of leading living men of Minnesota, edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, indicates that Samuel Dittenhofer resided at the nearby former 809 Summit Avenue in 1907. [See note on the Great Northern RailRoad.] [See note on the Spokane, Portland & Seattle RailRoad for 772 West Linwood Avenue.] [See note for the Minikahda Club for 702 Fairmount Avenue.] [See note for Samuel Dittenhofer for 807 Summit Avenue.]
818 Summit Avenue: Frank W. Hurty House; Built in 1916; Jacobethan/Tudor Revival in style; Olson and Erickson, architects. The building is a two story, 3267 square foot, five bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which last sold in 1992 for $285,000. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Hurty, Mrs. Julia Movery, and W. B. Movery all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Frank W. Hurty, associated with the Hackett Gates Hurty Company, and his wife, Clara Hurty, resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that John H. Burr (1907- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1917 until 1921, who graduated from Princeton University in 1928, and who was employed by Waldorf Paper Company, and John Humbird Burr, Jr. (1932- ,) who attended the school from 1945 until 1950 and who attended Williams College, both resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Frank W. Hurty (1856- ,) the son of Josiah Hurty and Ann Irene Walker Hurty, was born in Richmond, Indiana, was education in Indiana public schools, was a wholesale hardware merchant, was employed by A. G. Austin & Company, hardware dealers in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1872, was engaged with Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Company, hardware merchants, in Chicago for five years, was associated with Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk & Company for 18 years, came to Minneapolis in 1882, was a member of the board of directors and was the secretary of Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk & Company from 1895 until 1905, incorporated the Hurty-Simmons Hardware Company of Minneapolis in 1905, was the vice president and the treasurer of the Hurty-Simmons Hardware Company, a wholesale hardware business, was the vice president of Hackett, Gates & Hurty Company, which was a wholesale hardware firm, resided at 1823 Fremont Avenue South in Minneapolis in 1907, officed at Fourth Street and Second Avenue North, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a member of the Minneapolis Club, was a member of the Minikahda Club, and was was a member of the Minneapolis Commercial Club. Frank W. Hurty married Clara M. Lightner in 1894 at St. Paul. John H. Burr married Elizabeth Gifford in Tarrytown, New York, in 1928 and the couple had three children, Jane Burr (1929- ,) John H. Burr, Jr. (1932- ,) and George Burr (1935- .) Frank Walter Hurty ( -1939) died in Ramsey County. The house was built for $10,000. The most recent sale of the property occurred in 2006 and the sale price was $1,745,000. The previous owner of record of the property was the trustee of Loren V. Forrester and the current owners of the property are Carole Schram and Lee Schram. The 1887 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. George C. Eddings and Mrs. P. L. C. Van Vieck all resided at the former nearby 819 Summit Avenue. [See note for the Hackett, Gates, Hurty Company for 454 North Smith Avenue.] [See note on Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk & Company for 406 Maple Street.] [See note for the Minikahda Club for 702 Fairmount Avenue.]
821 Summit Avenue: Charles L. Johnston House; Built in 1910 (1910 according to Sandeen and to the Minnesota Historical Society, 1892 according to the National Register of Historic Places, and 1906 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) mildly Colonial Revival/Gothic Revival/Prairie Style in style; J. Walter Stevens, architect. The building is a two story, 7010 square foot, six bedroom, four bathroom, one half-bathroom, stone house, with a detached garage. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Charles L. Johnston resided at this address from 1911 to 1944. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Edna Scribner (1839-1918,) the widowed mother of Mrs. Charles Johnston, who was born in Ohio to parents who were born in the United States and who died of angino-pectoris, resided at this address in 1918. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Johnston and Mrs. E. E. Scribner all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Johnston resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Charles L. Johnston, the president of the D. S. B. Johnston Land Company, and his wife, Jane S. Johnston, resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Peter Waller Anson, who attended the school from 1938 until 1945, attended Princeton University, served in the U. S. Navy as a Fireman 2nd Class from 1945 until 1946, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Charles Johnston was the vice president of the D. S. E. Johnston Land Company and A. D. S. Johnston was the secretary of the D. S. E. Johnston Land Company in 1905. The house was built for $50,000. Charles L. Johnston, the son of Daniel S. B. Johnston and Hannah Coffin Stanton Johnston and the grandson of Levi Johnston and Evelina Buck Johnston, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great grandfather William Johnston, a Captain in the Second New York Artillery during the Revolutionary War. Daniel S. B. Johnston (1832-1914) was born in South Bainbridge/Afton, New York, was educated at the Delaware Literary Institute of Franklin, New York, moved to Galena, Illinois, taught school from 1849 until 1855, moved to Minnesota in 1855, opened a school in St. Anthony (now Minneapolis,) Minnesota, was a partner in a real estate enterprise, founding Breckenridge, Minnesota, with George F. Brott, J. W. Prentiss, J. C. Moulton, and E. DeMortimer, became half-owner of the St. Anthony Express with C. H. Slocum, was a bookkeeper employed by Orrin Curtis, married Hannah Coffin Stanton (1839-1879,) the daughter of Dr. Nathan Stanton, a Quaker physician and farmer, and Ruth H. Coffin Stanton, in 1859 in St. Anthony, Minneapolis, moved to St. Paul in 1864, operated an insurance business from 1864 until 1874 as an agent of the Phoenix Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, as an agent of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, and as vice president and general manager of the Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company, resided briefly in Kentucky and Indiana, then operated a farm loan business from 1875 until 1898, married Mary J. King ( -1905,) the daughter of David King and Harriet Newell Lyon King, then purchased 477,000 acres of land from the Northern Pacific RailRoad in 1898 and subsequently operated a land company, operated a lumber yard, a bank, and two grain elevators in Marion, North Dakota, was a founder of the People's Church, was a co-worker of his wife at the Women's Christian Home of St. Paul, married Eda Worth in 1909, and was the author of the articles "Minnesota journalism in the territorial period" in 1905 and "A Red River townsite speculation in 1857" in 1915, both published by the Minnesota Historical Society. In 1882, D. S. B. Johnston advertised for capital for mortgage loans with a seven percent rate of return in the Fulton Times. Daniel S. B. Johnston and Hannah Coffin Stanton Johnston were the parents of two children, Charles Johnston and A. D. S. Johnston. Charles Levi Johnston ( -1942) died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Eric M. Kustritz. [See note on the Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company for 1730 Portland Avenue.] [See note on Stevens for 335 Summit Avenue.] [See note on the Northern Pacific RailRoad.]
828 Summit Avenue: Built in 2001; NeoGeorgian in style (misattributed by another source as French Second Empire;) William Ingemann, original architect; Joseph G. Metzler, AIA, SALA Architects, Inc., renovation architect. The structure is a two story, 8812 square foot, 18 room, six bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. The former structure on this lot was built in 1956, and was a two story, 2876 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, frame house, which was last sold in 2000 for $448,000. The house was built by the Konstans and reportedly cost $1.65 million. The current owners of record of the property are Ellen D. Konstan and Joseph A. Konstan. Ellen Konstan is a member of the board of the Summit Hill Association and was the convener of the nominating committee for the Mount Zion Temple Board of Directors in 2005. Joseph A. Konstan received a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Harvard College in 1987, a M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1993, is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, and previously was a vice-president of the Mount Zion Temple Board of Directors. Joseph G. Metzler was the lead architect on the renovation of this house and provided the correct identification of its style. [See note on Ingemann for 1936 Summit Avenue.]
833 Summit Avenue: The property is tax exempt and include two buildings, one, a one story, 24146 square foot, structure that was built in 1985 and the other, a two story, 9946 square foot, structure that was built in 1965. The current owner of record of the property is St. Paul Gospel Temple.
834 Summit Avenue: Edward N. Saunders House; Built in 1903 (1912 according to Ramsey County property tax records and AIA Minnesota;) Classical Revival/Colonial Revival in style; H. C. Nordlander/F. C. Norlander, architect. The house was built as a single family residence at a cost of $37,000 and was converted to condominiums in the 1970's. Unit 1 is a 2489 square foot, three bedroom, three bathroom, stucco condominium, which was previously owned by Jack M. Weatherford and M. Walker Pearce, which last sold in 2006 with a sale price of $660,000, and which is currently owned by Craig D. Norman and Maureen A. Norman. Unit 2 is a 3249 square foot, three bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco condominium, which was previously owned by Meridian Properties Inc., located in Minneapolis, and which is currently owned by Debra J. Strom and Steven R. Strom. Unit 3 is a 1881 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, stucco condominium, which was last sold in 1999 for $200,000, and which is currently owned by the trustee for Ann B. Lufkin, located in Hayward, Wisconsin, which was last sold in 2006 for $357,500, and which is currently owned by Meredith A. Ernst and Mitchell E. Ernst. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Edward N. Saunders, Jr., resided at this address from 1914 to 1953. The 1918 and 1924 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Saunders, Jr., resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Edward N. Saunders, Jr., president of the North Western Fuel Company, and his wife, Florence D. Saunders, resided at this address. In 1934, Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. Saunders, Jr., resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Edward N. Saunders II (1915- ,) who attended the school from 1926 until 1934 and who attended Yale University, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that John L. Hannaford, a member of the Class of 1936, resided at this address. Edward N. Saunders was the second vice president of the Northwest Fuel Company, in which James J. Hill had an interest in 1877-1879. The house was the second house on Summit Avenue built by Mr. Saunders. In 1895, E. H. Gibbs was the President of the What Cheer Coal Company. Edward N. Saunders, Jr., was a graduate of Yale University. Jack McIver Weatherford is the DeWitt Wallace Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College, has been teaching at Macalester since 1983, and is the author of Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World, The History of Money: From Sandstone to Cyberspace, Savages and Civilization: Who Will Survive?, Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America, Porn Row, Tribes on the Hill, and Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. Jack Weatherford graduated from the University of South Carolina with a B.A in Political Science, received an M.A. in Sociology from the University of South Carolina, received an M.A in Anthropology from the University of South Carolina, received a Ph.D in Anthropology from the University of California, San Diego, and got a post-doctural degree in Policy Studies from Duke University, Institute of Policy Sciences. There is a 1973 photo of the house.
842 Summit Avenue: Charles Straus House; Built in 1898 (1890 according to the National Register of Historic Places and 1897 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Tudor Revival/Victorian in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The building is a two story, 3698 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 1997 for $405,000. The house was built for $35,000. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Charles Straus resided at this address in 1887. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Charles Straus and C. O. Straus all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mrs. Charles Straus resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Clara Ford, the widow of Silas M. Ford, resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Edwin B. McConville (1897- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1911 until 1914, who was a 1920 graduate of Georgetown University, who was a Seaman Second Class in the U. S. Naval Reserve Force during World War I, who was a realtor who officed at the Park Square Building, and who engaged in the hobbies of golf, horseback riding, and shooting, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Lawrence Platt, Jr., a member of the Class of 1943, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Charles Straus was a partner in the firm, Robinson, Straus and Co., a wholesale millinery. The company imported and distributed ribbons, silks, lace, millinery goods, velvets, feathers, flowers, hats, and straw goods. Edwin B. McConville was married in St. Paul in 1933 and was the father of three children, Edwin B. McConville, Jr. (1935- ,) Michael McConville (1937- ,) and Margaret McConville (1937- .) Charles Straus ( -1916) died in Faribault County, Minnesota. The current owners of record of the property are Timothy R. Lundgren and Francine R. Tashjian. [See note on Lockwood for 726 Summit Avenue.]
845 Summit Avenue: Summit Avenue Assembly of God Church; Built in 1875 (1953, with expansions in 1965, 1983, and 1986, according to Ramsey County property tax records.) This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. After the original church building on Holly Avenue and Mackubin Street was destroyed by fire in 1952, the congregation of the Saint Paul Gospel Temple moved to this location and renamed themselves the Summit Avenue Assembly of God. The Assemblies of God has its roots in a religious revival that began in the late 1800's, with the beginning of the modern Pentecostal revival generally traced to a prayer meeting at Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas, in 1901. By 1914, many ministers and laymen alike had begun to realize that the rapid spread of the Pentecostal revival, and the many evangelistic outreaches it spawned, created a number of practical problems, with a need for the formal recognition of ministers, the approval and support of missionaries, full accounting of funds, a demand for doctrinal unity and gospel literature, and a need for a permanent Bible training school, resulting in a general council in Hot Springs, Arkansas. A cooperative fellowship emerged from the 1914 meeting and was incorporated under the name "The General Council of the Assemblies of God." The organization is structured to unite the assemblies in ministry and a legal identity, while leaving each congregation self-governing and self-supporting. In 1916, the General Council added a Statement of Fundamental Truths to its constitution. A total of 2.5 million Assemblies of God attendees worship in over 12,000 churches in the U. S. and over 35 million worship in 210,435 churches and outstations in 186 other nations. The Assemblies of God has 20 endorsed Bible colleges, liberal arts colleges, and a seminary in the U. S. and 1,845 foreign Bible schools. The national headquarters of the Assemblies of God is located in Springfield, Missouri. Since 1993, Thomas E. Trask has been the General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God, chief executive officer of the church. Edmund L. Tedeschi is the Senior Pastor of the Summit Avenue Assembly of God Church. The prior pastors were Pastor Ben Hardin (1932-1933,) Rev. Marvin Miller (1933-1935,) W. H. Boyes (1935-1939,) J. McCochie (1939-1940,) Rev. Albin Johnson (1940-1943,) Rev. Ivan 0. Miller (1944-1949,) Rev. Wilbur Weides (1949-1963,) Rev. Richard Dresselhaus (1963-1970,) and Rev. Kenneth Swenson (1970-1977.) Thomas Bennett "Ben" Hardin (1893-1958) was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, son of Sherman Hardin and LaRue Brewer Hardin, was raised a Methodist, was ordained a minister in the United Free Gospel and Missionary Society in 1917, married Ethel Elizabeth Toms in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1917, was approved as a missionary by the Assemblies of God in 1918, was a pastor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Gary, Indiana, Chicago, Norfolk, Virginia, Washington, D.C., San Bernadino, California, San Diego, California, and Santa Ana, California, preached in New York City, Buffalo, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Dallas, Texas, and Washington, D.C., was a delegate to the 1943 General Council of the Assemblies of God that approved affiliation with the National Association of Evangelicals, and was a delegate to the 1943 constitutional convention of the National Association of Evangelicals.
846 Summit Avenue: Jacob Westheimer House; Built in 1898 (1897 according to Ransey County property tax records;) Mildly Queen Anne in style; Hermann Kretz, architect (Norman Krebs, architect, according to the National Register of Historic Places.) The building is a two story, 3802 square foot, eight room, four bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2000 for $449,900. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Westheimer resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Westheimer resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Jacob Westheimer, an investment secretary located at the Hackney Building, resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Frank W. Fuller (1899- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1914 until 1918, who served during World War I in the 36th U. S. Infantry, who owned the Fuller Manufacturing Company in Mankato, Minnesota, and who pursued the hobbies of wood working and metal working, resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Frank Fuller, who attended the school from 1914 until 1918, who served during World War I in the 36th U. S. Infantry, who served as a Major in the Manufacturing and Procurement Branch of the Chemical Warfare Service during World War II, resided at this address. Frank W. Fuller married Mildred Conger in San Diego, California, in 1922 and the couple had two children, Catherine Fuller (1924- ) and Barbara Fuller (1928- .) This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Jacob Westheimer was vice president and tresurer of the Aberle-Westheimer Company, wine and liquor dealers. The American Jewish Year Book for 1907 indicates that Jacob Westheimer, associated with Westheimer & Company, was the treasurer of the Mount Zion Hebrew Congregation and that Mrs. J. Westheimer, residing at this address, was the secretary of the Jewish Relief Society. The house was built for $6,000. The current owners of record of the property are Daniel B. Greenfield and Andrea D. Kao. [See note on Kretz for 579 Summit Avenue.]
850 Summit Avenue: Built in 1962. The building is a 1479 square foot, five bedroom, two bathroom, frame rambler, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The current owner of record of the property is Katherine Klisch. The 1887 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. George W. Baldwin and Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Ryno all resided at the former nearby 857 Summit Avenue.
862-864 Summit Avenue: Built in 1892 (1922 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian/Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 3080 square foot, eight bedroom, two bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The building is a two story, 3038 square foot, eight bedroom, three bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2000 for $340,000. The house cost $6,500 to construct. The 1930 city directory indicates that Walter Barney Marschner, the executive secretary of the General Concrete Block Company, and his wife, Genevieve Marschner, resided at 862 Summit Avenue and that Werner Hanni, the general agent in charge of the Department of Justice, and his wife, Agnes M. Hanni, resided at 864 Summit Avenue. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The current owner of record of the property is the Community of Recovering People, located in Wayzata, Minnesota. The Community of Recovering People, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization committed to opening the doors of recovery. John Curtiss, MA LADC, is the President of the Community of Recovering People and George Mann, M.D., is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Community of Recovering People. The former house at 857 Summit Avenue, in 1893, was the residence of Mr. and Mrs. William Yoerg.
866 Summit Avenue: Built in 1922; Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 3080 square foot, eight bedroom, two bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. Construction of the house cost $6,500. The 1930 city directory indicates that Francis A. Nolan, a salesman, and his wife, Edna Nolan, resided at this address. The current owner of record of the property is the Community of Recovering People, located in Wayzata, Minnesota.
868 Summit Avenue: Tudor Revival in style. The 1930 city directory indicates that Henry W. Kinnard, a captain in the U. S. Army Reserve resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District.
871 Summit Avenue: William Mitchell College of Law. The property is tax exempt property. The 4.33 acre site contains three buildings, one a three story, 63860 square foot, building built in 1931, the second a three story, 30191 square foot, building built in 1953, and the third a three story, 17492 square foot, building built in 1965. The 1908 city directory indicates that Annie Mahoney was the widow of Timothy Mahoney and was the housekeeper at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Rev. J. C. Byrne, Rev. J. P. Cleary, and Rev. W. J. Harrington all resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Rev. John Abbott, an assistant pastor of St. Luke's Catholic Church, and Rev. Francis Burns, an assistant pastor at St. Luke's Catholic Church, both resided at this address. World War I veteran Reverend William J. Harrington resided at this address in 1919. The 1920 city directory indicates that the Reverend Francis Burns was an assistant pastor at Saint Luke's Catholic Church and resided at this address. In 1879, William J. Harrington, a molder employed by the St. Paul Foundry & Manufacturing Company, boarded at 75 DeBow Street. The current owner of record of the property is the William Mitchell College of Law.
875 Summit Avenue: William Mitchell College of Law; Built in 1893. The property is tax exempt. The 1.86 acre site contains two buildings, one a three story, 33289 square foot, building built in 1957, and the other a two story, 70598 square foot, building built in 1988, according to Ramsey County property tax records. William Mitchell College of Law is the result of a series of law school mergers. In 1956, the St. Paul College of Law and the Minneapolis-Minnesota College of Law, itself the result of a half-dozen prior mergers, merged to create the William Mitchell School of Law. Most of the campus buildings were previously a girl's high school. Mitchell purchased the campus in 1976. The Burger Library building was constructed 1989-1990. William Mitchell's enrollment of about 1,030 makes its student body the largest of the nine law schools in the five-state area. The school has 38 full-time faculty members and about 200 judges, attorneys, and others who are adjunct professors, legal-skills instructors, competition advisors, or supervisors of clinics or externships. The law school is the successor to a law school that was initially founded in 1900. The law school's original Minneapolis predecessors and the dates of their founding were the Northwestern College of Law (1912), the Minnesota College of Law (1913), the YMCA College of Law (1919), and the Minneapolis College of Law (1925). From 1921 through the late 1950's, the St. Paul College of Law occupied the Berkey Mansion, at Sixth and College streets. The building was located in what now is the middle of Kellogg Boulevard, just south of the entrance to the Minnesota History Center (streets in the area have been relocated). The Minneapolis College of Law, which became the Minneapolis-Minnesota College of Law in 1940, was located at 24 S. Seventh Street from 1935 to 1955. The latter college, which briefly functioned as the Minneapolis branch of William Mitchell, occupied space in the Metropolitan Building, at Third Street and Second Avenue South, from 1955 to 1958. William Mitchell's home from 1958 to 1976 was a building at 2100 Summit Avenue in St. Paul. It is now McNeely Hall on the University of St. Thomas campus. Enrollment in 1900 was about 20 students and the annual tuition was $60. Its namesake, William Mitchell (1832-1900,) a former Wabasha County district court judge and a Minnesota Supreme Court justice and chief justice (1881-1899,) was regarded as one of the best judges in Minnesota history. William B. Mitchell (1832-1900,) the son of John Mitchell and Mary Henderson Mitchell, was born in Stamford/Niagara Falls, Welland County, Ontario, Canada, moved to the United States in 1848, graduated from Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania in 1853, taught school in Morgantown, Virginia, read the law in Morgantown, Virginia, was admitted to the practice of law in Virginia in 1857, moved to Winona, Minnesota, in 1857, was a law partner with Eugene Wilson, married Jane Hanway Smith ( -1867,) a widow with one child, in Morgantown, Virginia, was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives representing Winona County (District 1) from 1859 until 1860, was a law partner of Daniel S. Norton, then was the law partner of William H. Yale, was the county attorney from Winona County, Minnesota, was a member of the Winona City Council, married Frances Merritt Smith, a widow with one child, in 1872, professed no specific religion, was a judge of the Third District from 1874 until 1881, was an associate justice of the supreme court from 1881 until 1900, had the hobbies of hunting, fishing, and gardening, and died of a stroke near Alexandria, Minnesota. William Mitchell married Frances Merritt and the couple had a son, William DeWitt Mitchell (1874-1955.) Justice Mitchell pursued a strict judicial approach, even at the expense of equal justice, as exemplified in Rhone v. Loomis, 77 N.W. 81 (Minn. 1898), when Justice William Mitchell, in a 3-2 decision, with the chief justice dissenting, ruled that it was legal for a saloon to refuse to serve a "colored man" because the statute that precluded discrimination in taverns, inns, restaurants, and other places of public refreshment did not specifically mention "saloons." The current owner of record of the property is the William Mitchell College of Law. William DeWitt Mitchell was born in Winona, Minnesota, attended Yale University for two years, graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in 1895 and a law degree in 1896, began a private law practice in St. Paul, was a member of the law firm of Stringer & Seymour, was a partner in the law firm of How, Taylor & Mitchell, was a partner in the law firm of Butler, Mitchell & Doherty, saw action as an infantry officer in the 15th Minnesota Regiment during the Spanish-American War, fought in World War I, married Gertrude Bancroft (1877- ) in 1901, was a Presbyterian, was appointed U. S. Solicitor General in 1925 by President Calvin Coolidge, although he was a Democrat, was a partner in the law firm of Mitchell, Doherty, Rumble, Bunn & Butler until 1929, served as U. S. Attorney General in the administration of President Herbert Hoover from 1929 to 1933, practiced law in New York City as a partner in the law firm of Taylor, Capron & Marsh, served as chairman on the Committee of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, was the chief counsel to the joint Congressional committee investigating the Pearl Harbor attack, and died in Syosset, New York. William Mitchell, grandson of Justice William Mitchell and son of William DeWitt Mitchell, was an attorney and was an Assistant Secretary of War during World War II. William Hall Yale (1831-1917,) a relative of Elihu Yale, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, attended the Wallingford, Connecticut, public schools, attended the Connecticut Literary Institution, Suffield, Connecticut, studied law under George R. Cowles in Norwalk, Connecticut, was an Episcopalian, married Sarah Elizabeth Banks ( -1871) in 1851, came to Winona, Minnesota, in 1857, was admitted to the practice of law in Minnesota in 1857, was the Winona, Minnesota, city attorney for four years, was a Winona, Minnesota, city justice for two years, was a Winona, Minnesota, judge of probate for two years, was a Republican, was Minnesota Lieutenant Governor from 1870 until 1874, married Mary Louisa Hoyt in 1872, was a member of the Minnesota Senate representing Winona County (Districts 8 and 15) from 1876 until 1878 and from 1895 until 1899, was appointed to the Regents of the state university by Governor Knute Nelson, but was denied the seat by the Minnesota Supreme Court until after the Minnesota Senate term expired, was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives representing Winona County (District 2) from 1899 until 1901, moved to St. Paul in 1900, and was marshal of the Minnesota Supreme Court after 1905. Ann Iijima, a law professor at the William Mitchell College of Law, was a contributor to the John Kerry for President campaign in 2004.
880 Summit Avenue: Fred C. Norlander House; Built in 1923; Bungalow in style; F. C. Norlander, architect. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The original owner, builder, and resident, Fred Norlander, was a contractor. Construction of the house cost $15,000. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Fred C. Norlander resided at this address from 1924 to 1936, that the house was originally located at 894 Summit, was moved to this site in 1950, and became the parsonage for St. Paul's Church of Christ.
894 Summit Avenue: The Fred C. Norlander House, now at 880 Summit Avenue, was originally located at this address before 1950. The 1930 city directory indicates that Fred C. Norlander, a general contractor, and his wife, Johanna H. Norlander, resided at this address.
900 Summit Avenue: St. Paul's United Church of Christ School, Built around 1960; Modern in style. The building also houses the Childhood Center. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District.
900 Summit Avenue: St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Built around 1960; Modern in style. The property is tax exempt. The 2.48 acre site contains three buildings, one a four story, 49002 square foot, building built in 1950, the second a two story, 5314 square foot, building built in 1923, and the third a one story, 484 square foot, built in 1945. The church formerly was St. Paul's German Evangelical and Reform Church. The United Church of Christ was founded in 1957 as the union of several different Christian traditions, principally the Congregational Churches with roots in the New England colonies founded by the English Pilgrims and the Puritans, and the Christian Church with origins on the American frontier, which united in 1931 as the Congregational Christian Churches, and the Reformed Church in the United States, founded by 18th-century German and Swiss immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania and the mid-Atlantic region, and the Evangelical Synod of North America, a 19th-century church planted by German settlers along the Mississippi Valley, some of which united in 1934 as the Evangelical and Reformed Church. The UCC embodies the essence of both sets of 1930's unions, a blend of freedom with order, of the English and European Reformations with the American Awakenings, of 17th-century separatism with 20th-century ecumenism, of presbyterian with congregational polities, and of neo-orthodox with liberal theologies, thus bringing together ecclesiastical bodies rooted in English Puritanism, American frontier revivalism, and German religious history. The church also has attempted to incorporate into its essence the fervent evangelical spirit of its African American, Hispanic, Native American, Native Hawai'ian, Pacific Islander, Asian, and Hungarian congregations and to embrace multiculturalism. "Open and affirming," predominantly lesbian and gay, congregations have been organized and received into the church, adding a new tradition to the mix, with some controversy. The United Church of Christ is an extremely pluralistic and diverse denomination. Reverend John H. Thomas is the General Minister and President of the church and Ms. Edith A. Guffey is the Associate General Minister of the church. The UCC main office is located in Cleveland, Ohio. The current owner of record of the property is the St. Paul's Evangelical Reformed Congregation. The 1920 city directory indicates that Patrick W. Casey, the sales manager employed by the Brown Sheet Iron & Steel Company, resided at the former nearby 909 Summit Avenue.
922 Summit Avenue: Built in 1939. The structure is a one story, 1473 square foot, three bedroom, three bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The current owners of record of the property are Nina M. Hakanson and Mark J. Peschel.
923 Summit Avenue: Alfred Wharton Residence/Judge John W. Willis Residence; Built in 1902 and 1926. The two buildings are multi-family apartment buildings, one structure a two story, 9734 square foot, building and the other structure a one story, 1234 square foot, building. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Alfred Wharton resided at this address from 1891 to 1920 and that John W. Willis resided at this address from 1898 to 1953. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that James C. Fitzgerald (1859-1893,) of Irish heritage who died of typhoid fever, and Margaret W. Fitzgerald, husband and wife, resided at this address in 1893. The 1897 Catalogue of the Legal Fraternity of Phi Delta Phi, edited by George Anthony Katzenberger and published by the Inland Press of Ann Arbor, Michigan, indicates that George Henry Rogers, Class of 1899, University of Wisconsin, resided at this address. Little Sketches of Big Folks indicates that John W. Willis resided at this address in 1907. The 1909 University of Minnesota Catalogue indicates that John W. Willis, a former Minnesota district court judge and a special lecturer on lawyers and Oriental, Medieval and Modern law, resided at this address. In 1916, Judge John Willey Willis was a member of the Minnesota Historical Society and resided at this address. The 1916 University of Minnesota General Alumni Catalogue indicates that John Willey Willis resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Hon. and Mrs. John W. Willis and Dr. Alf Wharton all resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Alfred Wharton (1836-1920,) the widower father of Margaret Willis, who was born in Pennsylvania to parents born in the United States and who died of senility, resided at this address in 1920. The 1920 city directory indicates that Swan J. Burkman was a chauffeur at this address and that Francis G. Fitzgerald, a salesman, boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Hon. and Mrs. John W. Willis resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Margaret Willis, the widow of John Willis, resided at this address. John Willey Willis, a son of Charles L. Willis and Anna Marie Gleason Willis and of grandson of Luther Willis and Frances Willey Willis, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great grandfathers Sylvanus Willis, a Private in the New Hampshire Troops and Allen Willey, Jr., a Private in the New Hampshire Militia, and great great grandfather Allen Willey, Sr., a Private in the New Hampshire Militia, during the Revolutionary War. John Willey Willis resided at 367 Bates Avenue in 1905. Charles L. Willis (1819-1898) was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, graduated from the Harvard University Law School in 1847, married Anna Marie Gleason, came to Minnesota in 1850, settled in St. Paul, practiced law in St. Paul, invested in real estate, and died in St. Paul. In 1926, Mrs. John W. Willis donated to the Minnesota Historical Society nine ornamental snuff boxes that previously belonged to Alfred Wharton. John Willey Willis (1854- ,) the son of Charles L. Willis and Anna Marie Gleeson/Gleason Willis and the grandson of Luther Willis and Frances Willey Willis, was born in St. Paul, was educated in the common and high schools of St. Paul, attended the University of Minnesota in 1873, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1877, was a Latin instructor at the St. Paul High School from 1877 until 1879, read the law at the law firm of Gilman, Clough & Lane, was admitted to the practice of law in 1879, graduated with a master's degree from Darmouth College in 1880, was a lawyer, represented the Northern Pacific RailRoad in litigation, was a member of the St. Paul Board of Education from 1881 until 1882, was a Democrat, ran unsuccessfully for Minnesota Attorney General in 1884 as the Democratic Party nominee, converted to Roman Catholicism in 1884, was the president of the Minnesota Pioneers in 1860, was a member of the State Board of Charities and Corrections from 1888 until 1901, was a judge in Minnesota Second Judicial District (Ramsey County) from 1893 until 1899 after defeating Judge W. D. Cornish, was an adjunct professor of law at the University of Minnesota, was an unsuccessful candidate for Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court on the People's Party ticket and the Democratic Party ticket in 1894, married Margaret Wharton in 1897, was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of two great grandfathers and one great great grandfather who served in the New Hampshire Militia during the Revolutionary War, was the Democratic Party candidate for Congress for the Fourth Congressional District in 1898, but was not elected to the U. S. Congress, was a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association, was an incorporator of the Minnesota Territorial Pioneers in 1924, was the president of the Minnesota branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1925, was a member of the Ramsey County Bar Association, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, was a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, was a member of the Knights of Columbus, was an orator and linguist, and officed at the Globe Building in 1907. In 1910, Judge John Willey Willis, as a member of the State Board of Pardons, was a proponent of a successful effort to commute the four year balance of the sentence of John Carter, a poet published in The Prison Mirror and in The Century Magazine, convicted in 1904 at the age of 19 in a trial without representation by a lawyer of stealing $24, when he was starving, and sentenced to ten years in the Stillwater, Minnesota, prison. John Willey Willis initially married Eleanor Forsythe ( -1894) and subsequently married Margaret Wharton Fitzgerald (1863- ,) the daughter of Alfred Wharton and Susan M. Budd Wharton, in 1897. Margaret Wharton Fitzgerald had a son, Francis Carroll FitzGerald, from her 1888 marriage to James C. Fitzgerald and John Willey Willis and Margaret Wharton Fitzgerald adopted a daughter, Hazel Willis. Charles L. Willis of Ohio, the father of John Willey Willis, was in the newspaper business before coming to Minnesota, settled in St. Paul in 1851, invested extensively in real estate in St. Paul, Superior, Wisconsin, and Ashland, Wisconsin, and was a lawyer in St. Paul. John W. Willis donated to the Minnesota Historical Society a Meissen ware pottery punch bowl from Dresden, Saxony, Germany, the legal papers of Moses D. Sherburne, namesake of Sherburne County, Minnesota, and a pair of brass mounted percussion cap dueling pistols once owned by Francis Fitzgerald. Alfred Wharton (1835-1920,) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in 1854 and with a medical degree in 1857, settled in St. Paul in 1857, married Susan Budd in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the surgeon for the Sixth Minnesota Regiment during the American Civil War, was the librarian of the Academy of Medicine and Surgery in St. Paul, the city's first medical society, in 1866, was associated with Dr. W. H. Morton, Dr. John H. Murphy, and Dr. Samuel Willey, was a member of the St. Paul Academy, was an organizer of and was the vice president of the Ramsey County Medical Society in 1870, was a founder of the Minnesota State Medical Association, was a founder of the Farmer's & Mechanic's Bank in 1871, was a member of the board of directors of and the vice president of the Farmer's & Mechanic's Bank in 1880, was a medical examiner for several life insurance companies, was the adoptive grandfather of F. Scott Fitzgerald, retired from active medical practice in 1885, was a senior warden of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in 1890, and died in St. Paul at this address, the residence of his daughter, Mrs. John W. Willis. Margaret Fitzgerald ( -1922) died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Norlin G. Boyum, located in Minneapolis. [See the note for John Willey Willis for 367 Bates Avenue.] [See note on William Dalton Cornish for 534 Summit Avenue.]
926 Summit Avenue: Dr. J. C. Whitacre House; Built in 1889 (1928 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Tudor Revival/Bungalow in style; C. Hamm, architect. The structure is a one story, 1844 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 1993 for $185,000. The 1930 city directory indicates that John C. Whitacre, a physician located at 350 St. Peter Street, and his wife, Mary Whitacre, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that John C. Whitacre, a member of the Class of 1944, resided at this address. John Clifford Whitacre (1876- ,) the son of John Shacklett Whitacre and Celeste Ida Train Whitacre, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, attended the public schools at Cambridge, Massschusetts, from 1881 until 1889, attended the public schools in St. Paul from 1889 until 1991, attended the high school in St. Paul from 1891 until 1895, attended the University of Minnesota academic department from 1895 until 1897, graduated from the medical department of the University of Minnesota in 1901, was a physician and surgeon, was a member of the American Medical Association, was a member of the Minnesota State Medical Society, was a member of the Ramsey County Medical Society, was a member of the West Side Club, was a Masonic, was a member of the Red Men, was a member of the Knights of Pythias, was a member of the Independent Order of Foresters, was a member of the Odd Fellows, resided at 833 Hague Avenue in 1907, and officed at 116 South Robert Street. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The house cost $9,000 to construct. The current owner of record of the property is Maria S. Huffman.
929 Summit Avenue: Dr. Alfred Wharton House; Built in 1890 (1902 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Mildly Shingle in style; A. H. Stem, architect. The commercial structure is a two story, 6324 square foot, 13 bedroom, six bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. The house cost $16,000. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. Alfred Wharton, of Ramsey County, enlisted in the Union Army in 1862 and was Chief Surgeon of the Sixth Minnesota Regiment and resigned from that position in 1864 and was replaced by Wallace P. Belden. In 1870, when the Ramsey County Medical Society was formed, Dr. Alfred Wharton was elected to be its vice president. Margaret Wharton Willis was the daughter of Alfred Wharton, M.D., and resided at 367 North Bates Avenue.
934 Summit Avenue: 934 Summit Avenue; Built in 1906 (1908 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/mildly Colonial Revival in style; C. P. Waldon, architect. The structure is a two story, 5007 square foot, seven bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Carl P. Waldon was the contractor for the house. Waldon lived in Minneapolis. The house was built for $8,500. The 1910 city directory indicates that Joseph C. Wood, the treasurer of the Northwestern Colonization Company, resided at this address. In 1914, Thomas Dean resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Dean, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hamilton, and J. C. Hamilton all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Fink and Edward Fink all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Peter E. Hellum and his wife, Emmy Hellum, resided at this address. The current owners of record of the property are Katherine Daltas and Hilda Daltas.
937 Summit Avenue: Dr. E. K. VonWedel Spredt House/Edward K. Wedelstaedt House; Built in 1899 (1899 according to Sandeen and the Minnesota Historical Society, 1884 according to the National Register of Historic Places, and 1901 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Craftsman/Tudor Revival in style; Cass Gilbert, architect. The structure is a two story, 3302 square foot, five bedroom, three bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Dr. Edward K. Wedelstaedt resided at this address from 1900 to 1962. The 1918 and 1924 city directories indicate that Dr. and Mrs. E. K. Wedelstaedt resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Edward K. Wedelstaedt, a dentist located at the New York Building, and his wife, Alice Wedelstaedt, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. This house was built for John A. Humbird, who was in the lumber business. He lived at 527 Dayton Avenue. The house cost $7,000 to construct and no major alterations have been made to over the years. Humbird was also the original owner of the house next door at 943 Summit Avenue, which was built at the same time for the same price. According to local tradition, the houses were built for two sisters and were originally identical. The two sisters apparently feuded and one of the houses was altered so that it no longer resembled its original appearance. The house is among the last houses designed by Cass Gilbert in St. Paul and represents a surprisingly late version of Craftsman/Tudor Revival stylistic elements. John A. Humbird was the son of Jacob Humbird (1811-1893), a native of Cumberland, Maryland, and the two owned and operated the Victoria Lumber & Manufacturing Company in Victoria, British Columbia (1889-1893). John A. Humbird and Thomas J. Humbird were the presidents the Humbird Lumber Company (1903-1944) in St. Paul, which was a Weyerhaeuser affiliate. The pair were also associated with the North Wisconsin Railway Company, with D. A. Baldwin, of New York, and the West Wisconsin Railway Company (1871-1880) of Hudson, Wisconsin. In 1869, Congress selected the North Wisconsin Railway Company to build the rail line from the St. Croix River or St. Croix Lake to Bayfield, Wisconsin, on Lake Superior. In 1835, Jacob Humbird was engaged as an engineer with William Brown on a slack water improvement on Green River, Kentucky and, in 1837, moved to Cumberland and associated with his brother John, as Humbird & Co., and took a contract on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and, in 1844, was engaged in the Mt. Savage RailRoad. He also had the contract for building the Ravin Gap RailRoad, South Carolina, in 1858. In the 1860's, the Humbird Company was involved in the construction of a Government railroad and tunnel in Brazil, across the Sera de Mar Mountains, about forty miles, and the tunnel was, at the time of its completion, the greatest work of its kind in the world. In 1867, Jacob Humbird began the construction of the West Wisconsin RailRoad, and in 1872, commenced the North Wisconsin railroad from Hudson to Bayfield on Lake Superior. In 1880, with his brother John Humbird, Jacob Humbird took the contract for building the railroad from Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, through Chambersburg to Shippensburg. Caroline F. "Torry" Davidson, wife of William Davidson, and daughter of Charles W. Farnum and Kate Humbird Farnum, was the granddaughter of John A. Humbird and the great granddaughter of Jacob Humbird. John A. Humbird was the president of the Chicago North Western RailRoad in 1879. In John A. Humbird and Frederick Weyerhaeuser v. Waldo A. Avery, 195 U.S. 480 (1904,) Humbird and Weyerhaeuser sued as successor grantees of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, a Wisconsin corporation, to clear title to some railroad land. Dr. E. K. Wedelstaedt lived at this address in 1914. In 1934, Alice Humbird Wedelstaldt, the widow of Edward K. Wedelstaldt, resided at this address. The current owners of record of the property are Donna A. Mahlum and William M. Mahlum. [See note on Gilbert for 318 Summit Avenue.] [See note on the Chicago North Western RailRoad.] [See note on the West Wisconsin RailRoad.] [See note on the Northern Pacific RailRoad.]
942 Summit Avenue: 942 Summit Avenue; Built in 1908; Georgian Revival/Colonial Revival in style; Peter Linhoff, architect. The structure is a two story, 4896 square foot, eight bedroom, two bathroom, two half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The house also was built by Carl P. Waldon. The house was built for $25,000. In 1914, Sylvester McDermott resided at this address. The 1916 University of Minnesota Alumni Directory indicates that Thomas Jefferson McDermott resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jefferson McDermott and Sylvester D. McDermott all resided at this address. Paul I. McDermott and Sylvester D. McDermott were World War I veterans who resided at this address in 1919. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier's Bonus Board (#20330) indicate that Sylvester D. McDermott (1891- ,) a 1918 draftee and a Private in the 33rd Engineers, who was born in St. Paul, had blue eyes, dark brown hair, and a ruddy complexion, was 5' 11" tall, was a clerk at induction, served in the American Expeditionary Force in France, was issued one bronze Victory button, was a clerk employed by the Manhattan Oil Company after the completion of service, and was unmarried, resided with his mother, Caroline T. McDermott, at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Thomas J. McDermott, a lawyer officing at the Exchange Building, resided at this address and that George McDermott and John F. McDermott, both students, both boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McDermott, Paul McDermott, and George McDermott all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Thomas Jefferson McDermott, an attorney who officed at the New York Building, and his wife, Caroline McDermott, resided at this address. In 1934, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. McDermott resided at this address. Thomas Jefferson McDermott (1861-1940) was born in Kasota, Le Sueur County, Minnesota, the son of Paul A. McDermott and Rose McMamee McDermott, graduated from a Minneapolis commercial school, read the law in the offices of Eugene M. Wilson, was admitted to the practice of law in Minnesota in 1892, graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1895, was admitted to the practice of law before the U. S. Supreme Court in 1895, graduated with a master's degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1897, opened a law practice in St. Paul, was a special attorney for the Singer Manufacturing Company, was a special attorney for the Western Supply Company, was an assistant general attorney for the Chicago Great Western RailRoad, was the Democratic candidate for Minnesota Attorney General in 1904, was a member of the International Order of Foresters, represented the International Order of Foresters over the payment of a death benefit in Dougherty v. Supreme Court of the International Order of Foresters, 125 Minn. 142 (1914,) was a delegate to the World's Court Congress, was a Catholic, was a Democratic, was a chairman of the State Central Committee of the Democratic Party for two years, was a member of the St. Paul Athletic Club, was a member of the St. Paul Automobile Club, and officed at the New York Life Building in 1916. Thomas J. McDermott married Caroline T. Doran in Marysburg, Minnesota, in 1887 and the couple had five children, Sylvester McDermott, Paul McDermott, John McDermott, George McDermott, and Helen Grace McDermott. The International Order of Foresters is one of the world’s oldest and largest fraternal benefit societies, that was founded in 1874 at Newark, New Jersey, by a local friendly society. The IOF Foresters fraternal structure has three levels of government and activities, which are its members who belong to Courts, the High Courts made up of elected representatives of the Courts within their jurisdiction, and the Supreme Court, which governs the organization and convenes every four years to elect the Supreme Chief Ranger and other Supreme Court Officers. The IOF Foresters is operated solely for the benefit of its members and their families, without stockholders or owners and is open to qualified members of every faith, race and occupation. Linhoff designed 17 other houses on Summit Avenue. Paul A. McDermott ( -1918) died in Nicollet County, Minnesota. Rose M. McDermott (1836-1906) was born in Pennsylvania, had a mother with a maiden name of Dolan, and died in Nicollet County, Minnesota. The property was last sold in 2005 and the sale price is $980,000. The previous owners of record of the property were Kenneth E. Phelan and Phyllis W. Phelan and the current owners of record of the property are Brenda I. Braget and Michael D. Knutson. [See note on Peter Linhoff.] [See note on the Chicago Great Western Railway.]
943 Summit Avenue: Stiles W. Burr House; Built in 1899; Georgian Revival/Queen Anne/Colonial Revival in style; Cass Gilbert, architect. The structure is a two story, 5683 square foot, eight bedroom, four bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2004 for $1,022,600. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Stiles W. Burr and Mrs. Clara M. Burr resided at this address in 1890. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Stiles W. Burr resided at this address from 1899 to 1963. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that David Humbird Burr was the stillborn son of Stiles W. Burr and was born in St. Paul to parents born in the United States. The 1902 University of Minnesota Alumni Record indicates that Stiles W. Burr, a 1891 graduate and a lawyer who officed at the National German American Bank Building, resided at this address. Stiles W. Burr resided at this address in 1905. The 1916 University of Minnesota Alumni Directory indicates that Stiles W. Burr resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Burr resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Stiles W. Burr, an attorney at law who officed at the Merchant Bank Building, resided at this address and that Herbert W. Christensen, who resided at 128 North Western Avenue, was a chauffeur at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mrs. S. W. Burr and her daughter resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Jane H. Burr resided at this address. In 1934, John H. Burr and Jane Humbird Burr resided at this address. This house was built for John A. Humbird, who was in the lumber business. He lived at 527 Dayton Avenue. The house cost $7,000 to construct. Humbird was also the original owner of the house next door at 937 Summit, which was built at the same time for the same price. Stiles W. Burr (1868- ,) the son of Walter T. Burr and Clara Martin Burr, was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, was educated in the public schools of Washington, D. C., and St. Paul, received a law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1892, received a masters degree in law from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1893, married Jane Humbird in 1897, was engaged in the practice of law after 1900, was the vice president of the O'Neal Timber Company, was an incorporator of the Potlatch Timber Company, resided at this address in 1907, officed at the National German American Bank Building in 1907, was a supporter of women's suffrage, addressed the Minnesota Bar Association in 1912 on the topic "Reform Legislation," relating to initiative, referendum, and recall, was the author of "Extortionate Fees" in 1917 in the American Bar Association Journal, was the president of the Minnesota State Bar Association in 1915, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a member of the University Club, was a member of the St. Paul Automobile Club, was a member of the St. Paul Town & Country Club, was a member of the White Bear Yacht Club, and officed at the Merchant's National Bank Building in 1916. In 1901, Stiles W. Burr, with William H. Farnham and Charles W. Farnham, formed the Potlatch Timber Company, a general lumbering company buying land and operating in Minnesota and Wisconsin and a Weyerhaeuser affiliate. In 1905, Stiles W. Burr was the vice-president of the O'Neal Timber Company, a general lumbering and manufacturing company incorporated in 1905 to buy, sell, lease, and improve lands, timber and all products of timber, and to conduct a general logging, lumbering and manufacturing business and a Weyerhaeuser affiliate. In 1920, the Conference of Bar Association Delegates of the American Bar Association elected Stiles W. Burr as Chairman of the conference. Stiles W. Burr, Jared How, J. F. McGee, Pierce Butler, William D. Mitchell, William A. Lancaster, Frank B. Kellogg, Cordenio A. Severance, Robert E. Olds, Charles W. Bunn, and Walker D. Hines successfully represented the Northern Pacific Railway Company in Ex Parte Young, 209 U.S. 123 (1908,) a case overturning a Federal court demand that the Minnesota Attorney General show cause not to be held in contempt over a dispute with railroad shareholders over state rate regulation in 1908, where the railroad also was a defendant. Stiles W. Burr, Frank B. Kellogg, and Charles W. Bunn successfully represented Frederick Weyerhauser and John Humbird in a railroad grant land title case, Campbell v. Weyerhauser, 219 U.S. 424, in 1911. Charles W. Bunn successfully represented the railroad in a dispute with a homesteader about title to land located in Todd County, Minnesota, Northern Pacific Railway Company v. Wass, 219 U.S. 426, in 1911. Stiles W. Burr, Charles Donnelly, Charles W. Bunn, and James B. Kerr unsuccessfully represented the timber company and the Northern Pacific Railway Company in West v. Edward Rutledge Timber Company, 244 U.S. 90, in 1917, involving the title to land in Idaho traded with the Northern Pacific Railway Company for grant land in what became Mount Ranier National Park. Stiles W. Burr and C. W. Bunn successfully the timber company represented in Rutledge Timber Company v. Farrell, 255 U.S. 268, in 1921, an Idaho land title case. In 1915, Stiles W. Burr became the president of the Hill City Railway Company, a new corporation formed to operate the Hill City & Western Railroad, after the railroad suffered financially due to a fire, was losing money, was forced to be sold by its creditors, and was sold to the Armour interests of Chicago for $200,000 as the only bidders. In 1920, Mrs. Stiles Burr, a member of the Democratic National Executive Committee, was an alternate at large to the Democratic Party National Convention in San Francisco. John A. Humbird, president of Chicago Northwest Railroad, was instrumental in constructing and developing the West Wisconsin Railroad that reached Hudson, Wisconsin, in 1871. In 1900, Frederick Weyerhaeuser and John A. Humbird were partners in the White River Lumber Company of Mason, Wisconsin, and purchased from the Northern Pacific Railroad a bundle of Mt. Rainier scrip entitling them to over 40,000 acres on the Clearwater River in Idaho. Humbird also had logging operations in British Columbia and Colorado. In John A. Humbird and Frederick Weyerhaeuser v. Waldo A. Avery 195 U.S. 480 (1904,) Frederick Weyerhaeuser and John A. Humbird v. Herbert H. Hoyt 219 U.S. 380 (1911,) and Charles D. Campbell v. Frederick Weyerhaeuser and John A. Humbird 219 U.S. 424 (1911,) the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Weyerhaeuser and Humbird regarding the conveyances of land west of Duluth, Minnesota, by the Department of the Interior and the Northern Pacific RailRoad after an error was made by the Department of the Interior relating to the western terminus of the railroad. Jane Humbird Burr was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Ramsey County in 1928. The 1897 Catalogue of the Legal Fraternity of Phi Delta Phi, edited by George Anthony Katzenberger and published by the Inland Press of Ann Arbor, Michigan, indicates that James Bremer Kerr received a bachelors degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1889, a masters degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1890 and a law degree from the University of Minnesota in 1892, was the land attorney for the Northern Pacific RailRoad, and officed in the New York Life Building. Charles W. Farnham (1867- ,) the son of Horatio Nelson Farnham, Jr. (1840-1877,) and Maria Love Shiels Farnham, was born in Buffalo, New York, was educated in public and private schools in St. Paul, attended Griswold College, Davenport, Iowa, and graduated with a law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School, married Kate Humbird in 1900, was a lawyer, was a member of the American Bar Association, was a member of the Ramsey County Bar Association, was a member of the Roosevelt Club, was the secretary-treasurer and a member of the board of directors of the Jackson County Iron Company, was a member and a secretary of the Minnesota State Bar Association, edited Insurance laws of the State of Minnesota: comprising all laws in force, including those enacted at the Legislative Session of 1907, together with selected sections from the corporation laws of the State in 1907, resided at 546 Marshall Avenue in 1907, officed at the German American Bank Building in 1907, was the secretary of the Law Association of Minnesota in 1910, summered in Afton, Minnesota, in 1910, 1911, and 1912, authored Reflections on banks and bankers in 1915, summered on the St. Croix River at St. Marys Point, Minnesota, in 1915 and 1919, donated to the Minnesota Historical Society a collection of papers of Willis Gorman relating to his service as Minnesota Territorial Indian Affairs Superintendent from 1853 until 1857 in 1916, summered in Stillwater, Minnesota, in 1918, was a member of the St. Paul Patriotic League in 1918, and was a member of the Law Enforcement Committee of the American Bar Association in 1922 that advocated the ban on the sale of pistols in the United States. Caroline F. "Torry" Farnum Davidson was the wife of William Davidson and was the daughter of Charles W. Farnum and Kate Humbird Farnum. The current owners of record of the property are David Ingwell and Mary Pat Ingwell. David Ingwell is a deacon at St. Thomas More Roman Catholic Church. [See note on Gilbert for 318 Summit Avenue.] [See note on the Foley Brothers Construction Company.] [See note on the Hill City & Western RailRoad.] [See note on the Chicago Northwest RailRoad.] [See note on the West Wisconsin RailRoad.] [See note on the Northern Pacific RailRoad.]
952 Summit Avenue: Charles Beckhoefer House; Built in 1914 (1913 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Elizabethan/Tudor Revival in style; Thomas G. Holyoke, architect. The structure is a two story, 5042 square foot, seven bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. The house was built for $22,000. In 1916, Charles Bechhoefer was a member of the Minnesota Historical Society and resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bechhoefer and Miss C. R. Goldman all resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Charles Bechhoefer, a lawyer who officed at the Guardian Life Building, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Charles Bechhoefer and Miss C. R. Goldman resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Charles Bechhoefer, a Ramsey County District Court judge, and his wife, Caroline Bechhoefer, resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Bernhard G. Bechoefer, a member of the Class of 1921, a 1925 graduate of Harvard University, a 1928 graduate of Harvard Law School, and an attorney with O'Brien, Horn & Stringer, resided at this address. Charles Bechhoefer married Helen Goldman at Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1892, and the couple had two children, Bernhard G. Bechhoefer (1904- ) and Jeanette Bechhoefer. Bernhard G. Bechoefer married Estelle Scharfield of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1929 and the couple had two children, Charles Bechoefer (1933- ) and Arthur Bechoefer (1935- .) In 1964, Bernhard G. Bechoefer resided in Washington, D. C. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Charles Beckhoefer (1864-1932) was born in Pennsylvania and was an attorney. The current owner of record of the property is Robert V. Miller, who resides in River Falls, Wisconsin. [See note on Holyoke for 500 Summit Avenue.] [See note on Charles Bechhoefer for 1317 Summit Avenue.]
955 Summit Avenue: Carlos N. Boynton House; Built in 1904 (Sandeen and Larson; 1905 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) mildly Baroque/Jacobean/Jacobethan in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect. The structure is a two story, 5553 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 1999 for $750,000. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Carlos N. Boynton resided at this address from 1905 to 1926. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Boynton resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Lillian A. Bollinger, a mounter for Brown & Bigelow, Incorporated, Clifford C. Boynton, secretary for the Carlos N. Boynton Land Company, and Lillian Berlinger, a messenger employed by the Husch Brothers, all boarded at this address and that Kate M. Boynton, widow of Carlos N. Boynton, the former president of the Carlos N. Boynton Land Company, resided at this address. The 1920 city directory also indicates that Herman Burling was a chauffeur at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Boynton and Mrs. Kate Boynton all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Harry G. McNeely, the president-treasurer of the St. Paul Terminal Warehouse Company, and his wife, Adelaide McNeely, resided at this address. In 1934, Harry G. McNeely, Adelaide Frenzel McNeely, Donald McNeely, Jean McNeely, Audrey McNeely, and Harry McNeely resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Donald G. McNeely (1914- ,) who attended the school from 1925 until 1933, who was a 1937 graduate of Yale University, and who was employed by the First National Bank of St. Paul, resided at this address. The house was built for $26,000 (Sandeen and Larson). Johnston also designed a garage for the house in 1907, which cost $2,000. Carlos M. Boynton (1859-1919) was born in Vermont and was a proprietor of a real estate and farm land company. Brown & Bigelow was started in 1895 by Herbert Huse Bigelow (1870-1933), who invested $1500 in the business, and Hiram Brown, who invested $3000 in the business. Bigelow was the son of Andrew Steele Bigelow ( -1874) and Celestia Huse Bigelow, was born in Blooksfield, Orange County, Vermont, was the oldest of three children, moved to Iowa, was educated in Vermont and Iowa schools, including Grinnell College, married Nina Penny of Fullerton, Nebraska, and sold calendars while on their honeymoon to the Black Hills. Brown was never active in the business, and died in 1905. Bigelow's first wife died in 1897 and he then married Mrs. Frances Gillette, a widow, and adopted her son, Leon Gillette. In its early days, Brown and Bigelow was a model facility with large areas of glass and light, landscaped grounds, and recreational facilities for its employees. Bigelow was a very paternalistic employer, admired Elbert Hubbard, and wished to accomplish what Hubbard had done in his New York plant. Herbert Bigelow was absolutely opposed to the unionization of any industry and was an equally outspoken opponent of the income tax. In the post-Teapot Dome era, in the early 1920's, the federal government chose to prosecute a few selected businessmen from each geographic area for income tax evasion, including Herbert Bigelow, who expected to be fined, but instead was sentenced to three years in prison and served the minimum eight months at the Leavenworth penitentiary, where his cell mate was Charles Ward, who was there on a narcotics trafficking conviction. Bigelow died by accidental drowning in Bass Lake, Minnesota. The subsequent president of Brown & Bigelow, Charles Allen Ward (1886-1959), benefitted from the Brown & Bigelow practice of hiring ex-inmates, and rose from the position of general manager. Bigelow left an estate of $3 million, and a farm, and Charlie Ward inherited a third of the money and inherited the farm. Ward took over the company and turned it into a powerhouse, hired ex-cons and cheesecake illustrators, signed the artist Norman Rockwell, and won clients like the Boy Scouts. By the late 1940's, Brown & Bigelow was one of the biggest calendar printers in the world. Charles Ward even sent a calendar to President Harry S. Truman in 1952, which was posted in the President's bedroom. In 1964-1965, Harry G. McNeely, Jr., was the vice president of the St. Paul Rangers Hockey Team of the Central Hockey League and was a backer of the expansion Minnesota North Stars NHL Hockey Team in 1967. In 1992, Harry McNeely, Jr., was the chair of Space Center Enterprises Inc., an industrial real estate firm. Harry G. McNeely, Jr., the chairman emeritus of Meritex Enterprises and of the McNeely Foundation, is currently on the board of the University of St. Thomas and, as the President and CEO of the Opus Corporation and the Industry Financial Corporation, was chair of the University of St. Thomas Board in 1997. Harry G. McNeely III of the McNeely Foundation is currently on the board of the Minnesota Council on Foundations. Paddy McNeely is Harry G. McNeely, Jr.'s son, is the current CEO of Meritex, and is on the board of the Kinnickinnic River Land Trust. Marjorie McNeely, who died in 1998, was president of the St. Paul Garden Club, was a member of the original Guthrie Theater board, and had the Como Park Conservatory named for her after a $7 million donation from the McNeely family. The current owners of record of the property are Roger D. Wilsey, Sr., and Shari K. Wilsey. In 2003, Shari Wilsey and Roger Wilsey were contributors to the Randy Kelly for St. Paul Mayor campaign and resided at this address. Roger Dallas Wilsey, Sr., a credit/collection manager for the Lakeville Motor Express, was a contributor to the George W. Bush for President campaign in 2004. The 1920 city directory indicates that Caroline Cameron, a manager of the Summit Theatre, resided at the former nearby 956 Summit Avenue. [See note on Johnston.]
965 Summit Avenue: George H. Prince House; Built in 1901; Georgian Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, original architect, and Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., garage and remodeling architect. The structure is a two story, 6758 square foot, six bedroom, four bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2001 for $1,400,000. The house was built for $11,000. This huge house has an institutional flavor to it. Its asymmetrical facade and unusual flat roofed dormers with central broken segmental arched pediments add to its rather unconventional appearance for a house of this style. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that George E. Prince resided at this address from 1902 to 1933. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that George Harrison Prince resided at this address in 1907. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. George H. Prince and their daughters resided at this address. World War I veteran Frank Prince resided at this address in 1919. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Prince resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that George H. Prince, chairman of the board of the First National Bank of St. Paul, and his wife, Jessie R. Prince, resided at this address. In 1934, George H. Prince and Jessie Robertson Prince resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that William Hamm III (1935- ,) who attended the school from 1946 until 1949, resided at this address. George Harrison Prince (1861- ,) the son of George Harrison Prince, Sr., and Sarah E. Nash Prince, was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, was educated in Amherst, Massachusetts, public schools, was a banker, was initially employed as a clerk by the First National Bank of Stillwater, Minnesota, became the cashier at the Capitol Bank in 1891, was subsequently the cashier, vice president, and chairman of the board at the Merchants National Bank from 1897 until after 1912, was a member of the board of directors of the Merchants' Bank at Cloquet, Minnesota, was a member of the board of directors of the First National Bank of Cloquet, Minnesota, was a member of the board of directors of the First National Bank at Carlton, Minnesota, was a member of the board of directors of the St. Paul Gas Light Company, was a member of the board of directors of the Consolidated Elevator Company of Duluth, Minnesota, was the treasurer of the St. Paul Chapter of the American Red Cross, was a member of the American Club of London, England, was a member of the Bankers Club of New York, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a member of the Somerset Country Club, was a member of the St. Paul Town & Country Club, was a member of the University Club, was a member of the White Bear Yacht Club, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, was a member of the Chicago Bankers Club, was a Republican, pursued the hobbies of horseback riding and golf, officed at the Merchants National Bank in 1907. George H. Prince married Jessie Bernice Robertson and the couple had two children, Frank R. Prince and Mary Robertson Prince Zimmerman. Frank Moody Prince (1854- ,) the son of George H. Prince and Sarah E. Nash Prince, was born at Amherst, Massachusetts, was educated in public and high schools of Amherst, Massachusetts, worked in general store from 1870 until 1874, came to Minnesota, in 1874, settled at Stillwater, Minnesota, in 1874, was employed in the general store of Prince & French in Stillwater, Minnesota, from 1874 until 1875, taught school in 1875, then worked as an office boy and general clerk in the First National Bank of Stillwater, Minnesota, from 1875 until 1878, then was employed in the First National Bank of Minneapolis as correspondent and teller from 1878 until 1882, returned to the First National Bank of Stillwater, Minnesota, in 1882, was the cashier of the First National Bank of Stillwater, Minnesota, from 1882 until 1891, was the secretary and treasurer of the Minnesota Loan & Trust Company of Minneapolis from 1892 until 1894, returned to the First National Bank of Minneapolis as cashier in 1894, became vice-president of the First National Bank of Minneapolis in 1895, was the president of the First National Bank of Minneapolis from 1904 until 1917, and finally became the chairman of the executive committee of the First National Bank of Minneapolis. Frank M. Prince was also a director of the Minnesota Loan and Trust Company of Minneapolis, a director of the Stillwater Water Company, a director of the C. N. Nelson Lumber Company, a director of the Hennepin County Savings Bank, and a director of the Merchants' Bank at Cloquet, Minnesota, was a Republican, was a patron of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, was a member of the Minneapolis Club, of the Minneapolis Athletic Club, of the Lafayette Club, and of the Minneapolis Commercial Club, resided at 27 Groveland Terrace in 1907 and 1920, and officed at the First National Bank of Minneapolis in 1907. Frank M. Prince married Mary Bell Russell ( -1888) in 1883, but the couple had no children, and subsequently married Mrs. Margaret Macartney Townshend of Stillwater, Minnesota, in 1898. Frank M. Prince also was a member of the Minnesota Historical Society from Hennepin County. Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., was the architect who designed a garage for this property, in 1910, with alterations in 1915, at a cost of $7,000. Johnston also was retained to remodel the house in 1915 at a cost of $21,000. Jessie R. Prince ( -1938) died in Ramsey County. Frank Moody Prince ( -1941) died in Hennepin County. The previous owners of record were Janice Simmonds (1955-2009) and Gerald L. Trooien and the current owner of record of the property is Gerald L. Trooien. In 2003, Frankie Simmonds, Janice Simmonds, Victoria Simmonds, Alexandra Simmonds-Trooien, Walker Simmonds-Trooien, Gerald Trooien, Geraldine Trooien, and Oscar Trooien were contributors to the Randy Kelly for St. Paul Mayor campaign and resided at this address. Gerald L. Trooien is the largest shareholder in and is a director of Infowave Software. Gerald L. Trooien is the president of the JLT Group, is associated with Alexandra & Associates LLC, and is a major investor in Sproqit Technologies Inc. Janice Victoria Simmonds was the daughter of Stanley Simmonds and Frankie Simmonds and was interred at at Spirit Hills Cemetery in Jordan, Minnesota. [See note on Linhoff for 361 Summit Avenue.] [See note on Johnston.]
966 Summit Avenue: A. Slimmer House; Built in 1902; Georgian Revival/Queen Anne Rectilinear in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The structure is a two story, 4766 square foot, seven bedroom, four bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The house was built for $8,000. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1910 city directory indicates that Abraham Slimmer and Abraham Slimmer, Jr., associated with Slimmer & Thomas with Lane J. Thomas, a live stock brokerage located at the Exchange Building, resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Abreham Slimmer, Jr., and Miss Sarah M. Goldman all resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Anna Fitzgerald was a cook at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Slimmer and Miss Sarah M. Goldman all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Abraham Slimmer, a live stock dealer, and his wife, Jeanette Slimmer, resided at this address. The estate of Abraham Slimmer, Sr., led to a U. S. Supreme Court case, Iowa v. Slimmer, Jr., 248 U.S. 115 (1918,) where the State of Iowa sued for $13,750 in taxes due on the property of Abraham Slimmer, Sr., alleging a conspiracy by the Slimmers and others to defraud the state of taxes. In an opinion by Justice Louis Brandeis, the U. S. Supreme Court found against the State of Iowa. Abraham Slimmer, Sr., ( -1917,) resided in Iowa for the last five years of his life and left an estate of $550,000. Abraham Slimmer was noted for his generosity, including converting his house into the St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital of Waverly, Iowa, in 1904 and donating $500,000 to other hospitals and charitable institutions. Charles Bechhoefer was the administrator of the Slimmer estate. The St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital became the Waverly Municipal Hospital. The Slimmer burial plot at Mount Zion Temple Cemetery in Maplewood, Minnesota, includes the graves of Abram Slimmer (1835,) Bernhard Slimmer (1909-1964,) Margarete Slimmer Neumann (1887-1942,) Karl Elsinger (1925-1950,) Jeanette G. Slimmer (1876-1966,) and Abraham Slimmer (1869-1935.) The previous owner of record of the property was Patricia M. Busch and the current owners of record of the property are the trustees of Patricia M. Busch and William R. Busch. [See note on Lockwood for 726 Summit Avenue.]
976 Summit Avenue: Howard S. Johnson House; Built in 1911 (Sandeen and Larson;) Elizabethan/Tudor Villa/Modified Bugalow in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect. The structure is a two story, 4292 square foot, four bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 1993 for $365,000. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Johnson resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Dr. F J. Plondke resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Frederick J. Plondke, a physician who officed at 350 St. Peter Street, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Howard Johnson was a draftsman for the American Hoist & Derrick Company. The house was built for $13,250 (Sandeen; $16,000 according to Larson.) The American Hoist & Derrick Company (Amhoist) began in 1880 as the Franklin Manufacturing Company, a heavy equipment repair business that was established by Oliver T. Crosby and Frank Johnson at 459 South Robert Street in St. Paul. The company initially was involved in the maintainence and repair of logging & iron ore mining equipment. In 1883, renamed the American Manufacturing Company, the firm began to manufacture hand and horse-powered hoisting equipment. The company was awarded its first patent for the friction drum used in their hoists in 1885, when the company expanded its line of hosting equipment for quarrying to include a variety of construction equipment. In 1886, Oliver T. Crosby, the company's chief engineer for nearly 40 years, invented the Crosby Clip, a device used for fastening wire rope. In 1887, the company moved to 63 South Robert Street in St. Paul. In 1892, renamed the American Hoist & Derrick Company, it opened a second office and distribution facility in Chicago. The company built the largest locomotive crane in the world in 1895 for the U.S. Navy Yard in Mare Island, California, which was a behemoth that had a lifting capacity of 45 tons, carried a 75-foot boom, weighed 400 tons, and cost $50,000. American Hoist and Derrick became a major supplier of marine deck equipment for both merchant and naval ships during World War I, with 500 American hoists and 500 American derricks at work in the 50 shipways of the Hog Island Navy Yard near Philadelphia alone. After World War I, the company returned to their major markets in the logging, railroad and construction industries. Beginning in 1955, Amhoist began a tremendous period of growth through acquisition of 18 other companies, becoming a diversified corporation which included businesses such as Coast-to-Coast Hardware, Laughlin, Wayne Crane, McKissick, Cleveland Trencher, and Mechanical Excavators. American Hoist & Derrick moved from St. Paul to Willmington, North Carolina, in the early 1980's. The Amhoist industrial site on the West Side Flats has since been purchased by the City of Saint Paul and a by a private developer. In 1991, Amhoist renamed itself as Amdura Corporation, moved to Denver, and filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code. The construction equipment division, including the Crawler, Truck and Locomotive Product lines of Amdura, was sold off in 1987 and eventually became the private company American Crane Corporation, which has been a division of Terex Lifting since 1998, although the company does not make excavators, but is best known for its cranes. New products recently developed include 80 and 210-ton hydraulic lattice boom crawler cranes. In Minnesota, the company is still represented by Advance Industrial Sales, Inc., in Hibbing, Minnesota, and by Hayden Murphy Equipment, Inc., in Minneapolis. The former Amdura Corporation is now out of business. The current owner of record of the property is Carol Mack. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
977 Summit Avenue: Louis Silverstein House; Built in 1910 (1924 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Federal Revival/Spanish Colonial Revival in style; Peter J. Linhoff, architect. The structure is a two story, 5794 square foot, eight bedroom, four bathroom, stucco house, with a two car detached garage and a two car tuck-under garage. The 1930 city directory indicates that Louis Silverstein, president of the Louis Silverstein Company, a wholesale ladies apparel firm,his wife, Rose Silverstein, Joseph Paper, the president and general manager of Paper Calmenson & Company, his wife, Lillian Paper, David Paper, vice president and sales manager of Paper Calmenson & Company, and Mary Paper, a secretary employed by Paper Calmenson & Company, all resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Louis Silverstein was the manager of Macey's Store in St. Paul. Louis Silverstein also was a member of the St. Paul Civil Defense Advisory Committee in 1950-1951. The house was built for $25,000. The current owners of record of the property are Charles McCafferty and Norah McCafferty. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mrs. Joseph Elsinger resided at the former nearby 983 Summit Avenue. [See note on Linhoff for 361 Summit Avenue.]
985 Summit Avenue: James A. Wilson House/Joseph Elsinger Residence; Built in 1895 (1892 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Colonial Revival/Victorian in style; J. H. Hickel, architect. The structure is a two story, 6530 square foot, 16 room, eight bedroom, three bathroom, frame house, with a pair of two car detached garages. The house was built for $16,000. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that James A. Wilson resided at this address from 1896 to 1898 and that Joseph Elsinger resided at this address from 1901 to 1931. The book of Minnesotans: a biographical dictionary of leading living men of Minnesota, edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, indicates that Joseph Elsinger resided at this address in 1907. Joseph Elsinger (1847-1917) was associated with the Golden Rule Department Store and lived in this house in 1914. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Elsinger, their daughters, and Karl Elsinger all resided at this address. World War I veteran Karl W. Elsinger (1892- ,) a Sergeant, resided at this address in 1919. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier's Bonus Board (#25248) indicate that Karl W. Elsinger (1893- ,) a 1918 draftee and a Sergeant in 351st Infantry, who was born in St. Paul, had blue eyes, black hair, and a fair complexion, was 5' 8 1/2" tall, was a merchant at induction, served in the American Expeditionary Force in France, including Haute Alsace, was a merchant employed by the Golden Rule after the completion of service, and was unmarried, resided with his mother, Mary Elsinger, at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Karl W. Elsinger, a vice president for the Golden Rule, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Elsinger resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Mary Elsinger, the widow of Joseph Elsinger, resided at this address. In 1934, Phillip L. Ray, Bernice Steuerwald Ray, George Ray, and Patricia Ray resided at this address. James A. Wilson was a lumberman. Joseph Elsinger (1847- ,) the son of Max Elsinger and Regina Elsinger, was born in Jackson, Michigan, was educated in the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio, engaged in wholesale notions, toys and furnishings business in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1860 until 1886, married Mary Schelkman at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1884, moved to St. Paul in 1886, was one of the founders, with his brother, William H. Elsinger ( -1905,) of The Golden Rule department store, originally known as William H. Elsinger & Company and incorporated as the William H. Elsinger Company, was the president of The Golden Rule department store after 1905, was Republican, was Jewish religion, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, and officed at 95 East Seventh Street in 1907. Joseph Elsinger gave land along Como Avenue in St. Anthony Park to the Children's Home Society of Minnesota for the erection of the Jean Martin Brown Receiving Home and an attendant lawn and playground. Karl Walter Elsinger (1893- ) was the son of Joseph Elsinger, served during World War I in France with Company L of the 351st Infantry, 88th Division, United States Army, and was active with the Freemasons. Joseph Elsinger was active in the St. Paul Jewish community and was involved with the Mount Zion Cemetery over its policy. The Golden Rule Department Store continues in the form of the Golden Rule office building at 85 East Seventh Street. The six story, 300,000 square foot, building, which once housed the department store, was designed by Clarence H. Johnston, Sr. The Golden Rule Building was originally established as a store in St. Paul in 1886 and moved into a three-story building on East Seventh Street in 1891. Under the direction of Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., additions were made in 1901, 1910, and 1914, and a new facade was added. Johnston raised the older structure into its current six-story Neo-Classical Revival building by adding an elaborate cornice and classical detailing. In 1961, the store merged with Donaldson's and became Donaldson's Golden Rule. The name of the store was later shortened to Donaldson's and remained at this location until 1980, when the business moved into the Town Square complex. In 1983, the building was renovated into an office building by a local entrepreneur. The building interior includes a grand two-story atrium with a staircase spanning the first and second floors and an indoor park covers the entire first level and includes fountains and benches. By 1955, the Golden Rule, the Emporium, and Schuneman's had labor contracts with Local 2, one of the first two locals chartered by the Retail Clerks International Union in 1888. In 1959, the union was dealt a big blow when Dayton's, now the Target Corporation, bought Schuneman's, promptly terminated Local 2's contract, and petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a new union election, during which the employees voted out Local 2. In 1959, Local 2 also merged into Retail Grocery Clerks Local 789, which would eventually become United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789. James Speckman (1918- ) was a window designer for Donaldson's Golden Rule department store and an architectural delineator for Norman Johnson in 1945 while he received a degree in design and engineering from the University of Minnesota Extension Division and then became a full time architect. Samuel Dittenhofer eventually became the president of the Golden Rule Department Store and lived at 807 Summit Avenue. Phillip L. Ray was a graduate of the University of Minnesota. The Ray family were members of the Minikahda Country Club, the Somerset Club, the Women's City Club of St. Paul, and the Junior League in 1934. The current owners of record of the property are listed dually as Thomas C. Ernst and Michele J. Ernst and Diane M. Anderson and Steven C. Anderson. [See note on Johnston.]
986 Summit Avenue: Leo A. Guiterman House; Built in 1889 (1904 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival/Queen Anne Rectilinear in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect. The structure is a two story, 5686 square foot, nine bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. Construction of the house cost $15,000 (Sandeen; $24,000 according to Larson.) The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Guiterman and their daughter resided at this address. In 1920, the United States Adjutant-General's Office U. S. Army Register, Volume VIII, indicates that Arthur Lissner (1885- ,) a Second Lieutenant in the Quartermaster Section, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Guiterman resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Springer H. Brooks, the president of Woodard, Brooks & Bundy, an investment securities dealer, and his wife, Edith W. Brooks, resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Springer H. Brooks (1890- ,) who attended the school from 1904 until 1906, a 1911 graduate of the Sheffield School at Yale University, a captain with the 338th Field Artillery during World War I, a broker and a partner in Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood, a member of the Minnesota Club, and a member of the White Bear Yacht Club, resided at this address. The 1987 St. Agnes Catholic Church directory indicates that Hubert Renchin and Shirley Renchin resided at this address. Springer H. Brooks married Edith Wann in 1923 and the couple had a daughter, Cynthia Brooks (1924- .) This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The house was built for Harry G. Allers. Johnston also designed a garage for this house, in 1910, at a cost of $2,000. Guiterman Brothers was a men's furnisher and a leather and woolen dealer in St. Paul. Leo A. Guiterman (1862- ,) the son of Alexander Guiterman and Lena Stern Guiterman, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, was educated in the Cincinnati, Ohio, public schools, was an organizer of Guiterman Brothers in 1883, a manufacturer and jobber of shirts and men's furnishing goods that was incorporated in 1904, married Clara Louise Elson at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1896, was the president of Guiterman Brothers since 1897, was a charter member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, was a member of the Minnesota Club, and officed at 362 Sibley Avenue in 1907. The 1880 federal census and the 1912 Minnesota Historical Society Minnesota Biographies 1655-1912 indicate that Leo A. Guiterman (1862- ,) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Alexander Guiterman (1814- ,) born in Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany, moved to St. Paul in 1876, was employed as an overseer in a store in St. Paul in 1880, married Claire __?__, was one of the organizers of Guiterman Brothers, a manufacturer of men's clothing, and became the president of Guiterman Brothers in 1897. In 1900 and 1902, Leo Guiterman's name appeared in the Billings, Montana, Gazette for delinquent taxes. Leo Guiterman was the brother of Nathan S. Guiterman, who was a lawyer, who moved from St. Paul to New York City, and who married Carrie Louise Rosenwald. From 1879 until 1888, Leo Guiterman was a salesman for Greenhood, Bohm & Company, a Helena, Montana, clothing and liquor wholesaler with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Virginia City, Montana. In 1879, Leopold Guiterman/Leo Geuiterman was a clerk employed by Auerbach, Finch, Culbertson & Company and boarded at 191 Jackson Street. Clarence Johnston worked with Leo Guiterman, a member of the Mount Zion Temple and the owner of a department store, on remodeling the store in 1905 and on the building of a house at this address in 1904. In 1914, Guiterman Brothers was located at 346-362 Sibley Street, with Leo Guiterman as its president and with A. Guiterman as its treasurer and buyer. In 1906, Ambrose Guiterman was a member of the 51 member American Jewish Committee, organized for the protection, the preservation and the extension of the civil and religious rights and privileges of Jews, representing, with Henry M. Butzel of Detroit, Victor Rosewater of Omaha, Nebraska, and Max Landauer of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the nine Upper Midwest state Sixth District, but resigned from the organization in 1908. In 1914, Ambrose Guiterman (1852- ) was the president of the Minnesota Knitting Mills Company, located at 282 East Seventh Street. In 1917, Guiterman Brothers unsuccessfully sued Finch, Van Slyck & McConville over a patent infringement over a knit collar piece in Guiterman Brothers v. Finch, Van Slyck & McConville in Minnesota federal District Court and in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ambrose Guiterman was a member of the Minnesota Historical Society in 1917. The 1920 federal census indicates that Leo mGuiterman and his wife, Claire Guiterman, resided in St. Paul. The earliest trademark for a "windbreaker" was issued in 1923 to Guiterman Brothers for its leather jackets and vests. Guiterman Brothers, Inc., remained in business until at least 1969. Arthur Lissner (1885-1942) married Leona Brophel, the daughter of B. E. Brophel, mayor of Leicester, New York, moved to New Jersey, before 1929, established a specialty store in Newark, New Jersey, then moved to Brooklyn, New York, married Harriet Mayer Schere (1893- ,) the daughter of Max Mayer (1864-1925) and Leah Mandleman Mayer in 1938, then moved to New York City, New York, was associated with the insurance firm of Tanenbaum-Harber Company, Inc., and died of a heart attack in New York City, New York. The current owner of record of the property is Deidre R. Kronschnabel. [See note on Johnston.]
990 Summit Avenue: Henry Glassbrook Allen and Ruth Allen House/American Association of University Women Mansion; Built in 1916 (1917 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style; Thomas G. Holyoke, architect for the original building, and Harry Schroeder of Buetow Associates, architect for the 1966 additions. The structure is now a commercial property, with a detached garage. The house was built for $20,000 ($15,000 according to the St. Paul Branch of the American Association of University Women.) The three story, 12671 square foot, mansion has 25 rooms, 10 bathrooms, and seven fireplaces. The grounds include a carriage house. Both buildings have brick exteriors, faced with Bedford stone, slate roofs, and copper gutters and flashing. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. This address is part of a parcel of land that was purchased from the Federal Government in 1848 by William A. Woodward. The Woodward parcel was subdivided in 1872 and was sold to Henry G. Allen, a wholesale grocer, and Ruth Allen in 1914. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Henry G. Allen, Sr., resided at this address from 1917 to 1926 and that Shreve M. Archer resided at this address from 1929 to 1949. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Allen resided at this address. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier's Bonus Board (#19066) indicate that H. G. Allen, the brother of World War I veteran John H. Allen, resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Henry G. Allen, the president of J. H. Allen & Company, resided at this address and that Jno H. Allen, Jr., a student, boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Allen, their daughter, H. G. Allen, Jr., Harry Allen, and Jack Allen all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Shreve H. Archer, and his wife, Doris C. Archer, resided at this address. In 1934, Shreve M. Archer, Sr., Doris Cowley Archer, Georgianna Archer, Barbara Archer, Shreve M. Archer, Jr., and Doris Archer resided at this address and were prominent members of St. Paul society. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Shreve McL. Archer, a member of the Class of 1902, a 1910 graduate of Yale University, and an employee by Archer-Daniels Midland Company, resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Shreve McL. Archer, Sr. ( -1947,) attended the school from 1900 until 1902, and that Shreve M. Archer, Jr. (1922- ,) attended the school from 1934 until 1939, attended Princeton University, who served in the Air Force as a flying instructor, was a director of the Oil Sales Department of the Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, was a member of the Minneapolis Club, the Minneapolis J. C., and the White Bear Yacht Club, and resided at Dellwood, White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that the St. Paul College Club was located at this address from 1950. Henry "Harry" Glassbrook Allen (1872-1939,) the son of John Henry Allen (1838-1905,) an American Civil War veteran and wholesale grocer, and Margaret A. Glassbrook Allen, was born in St. Paul, was educated at St. Mary's Catholic School, the Franklin public school in 1887, and the St. Paul High School in 1888, attended Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, Indiana, from 1889 until 1891, was engaged in the grocery business since 1891 as an employee of Allen, Moore & Company and its successor, J. H. Allen & Company, married Ruth Hall in Stillwater, Minnesota, in 1899, was the city collector for Allen, Moore & Company in 1891, was an assistant bookkeeper for Allen, Moore & Company from 1892 until 1893, was the traveling credit man for Allen, Moore & Company from 1895 until 1904, was the vice president Allen, Moore & Company in 1904, became the president of J. H. Allen & Co., wholesale grocers, importers, and coffee roasters, in 1905, resided at 598 Summit Avenue in 1907, summered on Manitou Island, White Bear Lake, Minnesota, in 1918, was a Roman Catholic, was a member of the St. Paul Jobbers' Union, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, officed at the corner of Broadway Street and Sixth Street in 1907, resided at the corner of Virginia Avenue and Laurel Avenue in 1907, and died in St. Paul. Henry G. Allen, Sr., and Ruth Hall Allen were the parents of three children, Harriette Allen, John H. Allen, and Henry G. Allen, Jr. J. H. Allen & Company was started by his father, John H. Allen. John H. Allen (1838-1904) was born in Galena, Illinois, moved to Minnesota in 1865, settled in St. Paul, initially was in the drug business, opened a wholesale grocery business as a partner of P. F. McQuillan, was a St. Paul park commissioner, was a director of the National German American Bank, and died in St. Paul. John H. Allen was a partner in Allen, Moon, and Co., wholesale grocers, was the brother of F. Scott Fitzgerald's grandmother, Louisa McQuillan, and lived at 335 Summit Avenue. The property was purchased by Shreve Archer and Doris Cowley Archer in 1927. In their 22 year tenure in the house, the Archers made a number of additions, including adding an Art Deco second floor bathroom. The St. Paul Branch of the American Association of University Women purchased the house in December, 1949, and made a number of changes, including a 1966 addition of Hatfield Hall. Shreve Archer and Doris Cowley Archer summered in Dellwood, White Bear Lake, Minnesota, in 1918. Shreve Archer was the president of Archer, Daniels, Midland Company, which manufactured linseed oil and paint. Shreve M. Archer, Jr., who was a member of the ADM Board since 1948, retired as a member of the Board of Directors in 1998 and was elected as a Director Emeritus. In 1902, George P. Archer and John W. Daniels began a linseed crushing business. In 1923, Archer-Daniels Linseed Company acquired Midland Linseed Products Company, and Archer-Daniels-Midland Company was formed. ADM has a worldwide transportation network and has more than 268 domestic and international plants, has 23,603 employees, has $14 Billion in sales, and $266 million in income. ADM's sales in 1997 were 56 percent in oilseed products, 15 percent in maize products, 11 percent in wheat and other milled products, and 18 percent in other products. As a grain trader, ADM dwarfs its farmer suppliers, and is able to dictate the economic terms that suit it. ADM, like the other grain traders, has focused heavily on the accumulation of political power - which it has largely achieved through the personal connections of former chairman and CEO Dwayne Andreas. ADM is helped along by several U. S. government programs, including:
1) maize subsidies - they provide stability in a volatile market;
2) the sugar program - by limiting US sugar production, the government keeps the price high, and so keeps customers like Coca-Cola favouring ADM's maize sweeteners over cane sugar; and
3) ethanol subsidy - the most significant subsidy, which is a tax credit to producers of ethanol that is used as car fuel, amounting to $3.5 billion over 5 years (half goes to ADM.)
On the ADM Board in the mid-1990's with Shreve Archer were Dwayne Andreas (president in 1966, CEO until 1997, and chairman until 1999; Director of Hollinger International, Inc.), Ralph Bruce, John Daniels (Chairman Emeritus; grandson of one of the founders,) Lowell Andreas, Martin Andreas (Senior Vice President and an Assistant to the CEO,) Michael Andreas (Senior Vice President, once jailed for price fixing,) H. D. Hale, James Randall, Gaylor Coan (Chief Executive Officer of Gold Kist Inc.; a Director of SunTrust Banks Inc. and Cotton States Life Insurance Company,) John Vanier (Executive Officer, Western Star Agricultural Resources, Inc.,) M. Brian Mulroney (Senior Partner in the law firm of Ogilvy Renault, Director of Barrick Gold Corporation, Petrofina S.A., The TrizecHahn Corporation, Cendant Corporation, and Quebecor Printing, Inc., and former Prime Minister of Canada,) Margaretta "Happy" Rockefeller (widow of former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller,) Glenn Webb (chairman and chief executive of Growmark Inc.,) Ross Johnson, Ray Goldberg, and Robert Strauss (partner in the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld and a Director of Hollinger International, Inc. and Gulfstream.) The Archers added a master bedroom and an Art Deco bath on the west side of the second floor, now called the Bride's Room, turned the first floor library next to the main staircase into a lounge, lavatory and linen room, dismantled the conservatory at the south end of the central hall, added an octagonal room for Mr. Archer's gun collection, and added marble fireplaces. John Shreve Archer (1864-1901) was born in Dayton, Ohio, and was the son of one of the first linseed oil manufacturers in the United States and invented and patented much of the machinery used in linseed oil manufacture. Schroeder was associated with the architectural firm of Buetow Associates. The current owner of record of the property is the St. Paul Branch of the American Association of University Women. [See note on Holyoke for 500 Summit Avenue.]
999 Summit Avenue: Built in 2006; Reed Robinson, architect. The structure is a two story, 3137 square foot, ten room, three bedroom, three bathroom, frame house, with an attached garage. The building permit for the property was reviewed and approved by the Heritage Preservation Commission of the City of St. Paul in Spring, 2006, after modifications to the structure's turret, windows, trim, porch roof, simplified dormer, roof pitch, and front gable. The property was last sold in 2005 and the sale price was $585,000. The current owners of record of the property are Anne Wussler and Jack Wussler, who reside at 23 Chatsworth Street North. Jack Wussler resided at 1319 Hewitt Avenue in 2000 and also owned development property in Hugo, Minnesota. Jack Wussler is a competitive runner and in-line skater and Anne Wussler is a competitive runner. Jack Wussler is the owner of Jack the Carpenter Inc., a commercial and specialty carpentry firm. Anne Schaefer Wussler, the daughter of Pat Schaeffer and Larry Schaeffer, has a bachelor's degree from Macalester College in Humanities and Anthropology, an AMI Elementary Certification from the Montessori Training in Bergamo, Italy, a MALS in dance and movement studies from Wesleyan University, and an elementary teaching license and a master's degree in Education from the University of St. Thomas, was a member of the Board of Directors of World Learner Montessori School, a Charter Program in Chaska, previously taught at the Public Montessori, Crossroads School, in St. Paul, and at Lake Country School in Minneapolis, currently teaches Lower Elementary at Oak Hill Montessori School, and is a member of the Board of Directors of Oak Hill Montessori School.
1003 Summit Avenue: J. H. Burwell House/Michael H. Foley Residence; Built in 1904 (1900 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Richardsonian Romanesque/Queen Anne Rectilinear in style; A. H. Stem, architect. The structure is a two story, 6694 square foot, nine bedroom, four bathroom, stone house, with a detached garage. Construction of the house cost $15,000. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Jules H. Burwell resided at this address from 1892 to 1894. The 1893 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Jule H. Burwell resided at this address. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Michael H. Foley resided at this address from 1896 to 1936. In 1905, Edward Foley and Mrs. M. A. Ramsay resided at this address. The 1917 Catalogue of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, published by James T. Brown of New York, indicated that Edward Timothy Foley, a member of the Class of 1910 at the University of Minnesota, and a graduate of the St. Paul College of Law, a contractor, resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Michael H. Foley, his daughter, and E. T. Foley all resided at this address. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier�s Bonus Board (#23499) indicate that Clark G. McCabe (1894- ,) a 1918 draftee and a Sergeant in Gr. B. R. U. 301st M. T. C., who was born in Dresser Junction, Wisconsin, moved to Minnesota in 1916, had blue eyes, light hair, and a light complexion, was 5' 8 1/4" tall, was a mechanic at induction, served in the American Expeditionary Force in France, was a chauffeur employed by M. H. Foley after the completion of service, and was unmarried, resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Edward T. Foley, the president of the Flour State Baking Company and the vice president of Foley Brothers Inc., and that Michael H. Foley, the president of Foley Brothers, Inc., both resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Foley resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Edward T. Foley, the president of Foley Brothers Inc., and his wife, Jean M. Foley, resided at this address. Jule H. Burwell (1846- ) was born in Franklin Mills, Ohio, served in the Third Colorado Cavalry during an Indian war in 1864, moved to St. Paul in 1878, was vice president and manager of Mast, Buford & Burwell Company, a wholesale farm machinery firm, and was one of seven St. Paul members on the committee that was given charge fo the relief work following the 1918 Hickley, Minnesota, Fire. In 1884, J. H. Burwell was alleged to have embezzled $70,000 from Mast, Buford & Burwell Company and resigned his position with the company on account of the defalcation. In 1892, J. H. Burwell was both president of and the director of the main building division of the Minnesota State Agricultural Society, which operated the Minnesota State Fair. In 1892, the Mast, Buford & Burwell Company produced the "Pirate" brand of agricultural implements. In 1921, the Archdiocese of St. Paul established the Archbishop Ireland Educational Fund as part of an ambitious building program, with its board of directors made up of Pierce Butler, Edward Foley, and Michael Waldorf. Timothy Foley contributed $500,000 to the Ireland Fund. Foley Brothers Construction received the $3.75 million contract to build the Nazareth Hall preparatory seminary, funded by the Ireland Fund. Foley, Minnesota, the county seat of Benton County, was named for its proprietors, Timothy Foley, Mary Foley, Thomas Foley, Jessie A. Foley, John Foley, and Michael H. Foley, in 1898. Timothy Foley was one of four brothers with lumber and railroad interests throughout Minnesota and built the Foley/Brower/Bohmer House in St. Cloud, Minnesota, in 1898. The current owners of record of the property are Diane E. Fulmer and Gary W. Hietala. [See note on Stem for 929 Summit Avenue.] [See note on the Foley Brothers Construction Company.]
1005 Summit Avenue: Michael H. Foley House; Built in 1906; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect. The house was built for $15,000. Michael H. Foley (1845-1920) was instrumental in the founding of the city of Foley, Minnesota, the county seat of Benton County, platted in 1898, with Timothy Foley (1838-1920,) Mary Foley, Thomas Foley (1840-1907,) Jessie A. Foley, and John R. Foley (1842-1907.) The Foleys were associated with the Foley Brothers Inc., a railroad construction firm that was established in 1887 and that performed services for the Canadian Pacific, Canadian National, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, St. Paul Union Depot Company, Soo Line, and other railroads, and the Foley Realty and Securities Company. Foley Brothers Inc. also worked on the Halifax ocean terminal, the Purity Baking Company, the St. Paul Cathedral, the cathedral rectory, the chancery building, the St. Paul Catholic Orphanage, and Nazareth Hall. Foley Brothers Inc. and its predecessors and successors (Foley Brothers, Foley Brothers and Guthrie, Foley Brothers and Northern Construction Company, Mann, Foley Brothers and Larson, Foley Bros., Larson and Co., Foley Brothers, Welch, and Stewart, and Foley Brothers, Welch, Stewart and Fauquier) built more than 25,000 miles of rail lines in the northern U.S. and Canada between the 1870's and the 1920's and employed as many as 50,000 men at one time. In Foley Brothers, Inc. v. Filardo, 336 U.S. 281, 69 S.Ct. 575, 93 L.Ed. 680 (1949,) the U.S. Supreme Court held that the federal Eight-Hour Law does not apply to U.S. citizens working for American firms abroad and was restricted in its application to the territorial jurisdiction of the United States. Thomas Foley also was associated with the Minnesota Commission of Conservation. Benton County was one of the original nine counties formed when Minnesota became an independent county in 1849. Seven other counties were partly formed from the original Benton County, which are Aitken, Anoka, Crow Wing, Isanti, Mille Lacs, Morrison, and Sherburne. Benton County was named in honor of Senator Thomas Hart Benton of St. Louis, Missouri. Originally, Foley was the center of a thriving lumber business and home to a sawmill. As the number of trees dwindled, the town switched to agriculture. The city was incorporated in 1900. The name "Foley" originally was O'Foghladha, and is Irish, meaning "pirate," and was the name of a tribe which lived in Ardmore County Waterford, and made a living raiding the Welsh. Timothy Foley donated a $100,000 matching gift to the Archdiocese of St. Paul in 1918 for the building of a minor seminary (high school plus two year college) for the archdiocese, Nazareth Hall on Lake Johanna in northern Ramsey County. The seminary was built over the period 1921-1961. The seminary was closed in 1970 and the 87 acre property was sold for $2,579,000 to become the current Northwestern College, the successor to the former Northwestern Bible and Missionary School and the former Northwestern Theological Seminary. William Franklin Graham, better known as Billy Graham, was a president of the institution and his connection with the college is the reason for Minneapolis having been the center for his organization for a number of decades. In 1912, Timothy Foley, Patrick Welch, and John Stewart acquired the Howe Sound & Northern Railway and renamed it the Pacific Great Eastern Railway. Edward T. Foley (1887-1968) studied at St. Thomas College and Oxford, served in World War I, was involved in the Irish War of Independence, and was a business executive with Foley Brothers Inc. who helped diversify Foley Brothers after World War I. Johnston was also retained in 1917 to design a retaining wall at a cost of $1,000. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.] [See note on the Foley Brothers Construction Company.]
1006 Summit Avenue: Governor's Residence/Horace Hills Irvine House; Built in 1910 (1883 according to the National Register of Historic Places and 1911 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) English Tudor/Jacobean Revival/Tudor Revival in style; William Channing Whitney, architect. The structure is a two story, 14706 square foot, eight bedroom, five bathroom, three half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, on a 1.5 acre lot. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The original owners and residents of this house were Horace Hills and Clotilde McCullough Irvine. The house was constructed for a cost of $50,000. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Horace H. Irvine resided at this address from 1912 to 1964. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Irvine resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Edward McCullough resided at this address in 1923. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Irvine resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Horace H. Irvine, the president of the Grand Avenue State Bank, and his wife, Clotilde Irvine, resided at this address. In 1934, Horace Hills Irvine, Clotilde McCullough Irvine, Elizabeth Irvine, Thomas Irvine, Clotilde Irvine, and Olivia Irvine resided at this address. H. H. Irvine (1878-1947) was born in Wisconsin, was the son of Thomas Irvine (1841- ) and Emily Hills Irvine (1848- ,) came to St. Paul with his parents in 1889, and graduated from Barnard College. He joined his father's business, the Thomas Irvine Lumber Company, and eventually went on to become the company president, which was associated with the Weyerhaeuser lumber business. In 1907, he married Clotilde McCullough and the couple had four children, Thomas Irvine, Elizabeth Irvine, Clotilde Irvine Moles, and Olivia Irvine Dodge. Irvine also was a Carleton College trustee from 1930 to 1947. H. H. Irvine was a staunch Republican and his wife, Clotidle McCullough Irvine, was a Democrat. The Irvine family were members of the Minneapolis Club, the White Bear Yacht Club, the St. Paul Athletic Club, and the Somerset Club in 1934 and summered on Manitou Island in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. After H. H. Irvine's death, Clotilde Irvine continued to live in the house until her death in 1964. Her daughters gave the house to the State of Minnesota for use as the governor's residence in 1965 and Governor Wendell Anderson was the first governor to live in the house. The building offically became the Minnesota State Ceremonial Building and is used for offical receptions and dinners and for lodging visiting dignitaries, as well as being the governor's residence. Notable visitors to the house included the Scandinavian royalty, American political royalty such as Eleanor Roosevelt and the Gores, and celebrities such as Sophia Loren, Jack Nicholson, and Sean Penn. Thomas Irvine (1841- ,) a Canadian by birth, was the superintendent and secretary of the Beef Slough Boom Company, Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, was engaged in the lumber business with Benjamin Hershey/Herschie, and also was the secretary of the Chippewa River (Wisconsin) Improvement Log Driving Company. There is a Clotilde Irvine Sensory Garden at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, with programs that feature an informal, hands-on experience of plants through touch, taste and smell. Olivia Irvine Dodge created the Thomas Irvine Dodge Nature Center, a 320 acre nature preserve in West Saint Paul, Minnesota, that provides environmental education and outdoor experiences, in 1967 and also created the Irvine Nature Center in Stevenson, Maryland. The Olivia Irvine Dodge Conservation Award is presented to Marylanders who have demonstrated a commitment to environmental education and conservation. Whitney's other designs include the Minneapolis Club and Abbott Hospital. Some 5000 Minnesotans each year visit the Governor's Mansion. The Horace Hills Irvine House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Clotilde McCullough Irvine was the daughter of E. B. McCullough of Memphis, Tennessee, and married Horace Hills Irvine in 1907 in Minneapolis. Horace Hills Irvine (1878-1947,) the son of Thomas Irvine and Emily Almira Hills Irvine (1847-1899,) was born in Alma, Wisconsin, was educated at St. Bernard School, graduated from the St. Paul public schools, graduated from Barnard College, joined the family lumber business, was a political independent, was a lawyer, was the secretary of the Thomas Irvine Lumber Company, was president of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, was a member of the board of trustees of the Merchants Trust & Savings Bank of St. Paul in 1918, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a member of the Town & Country Club, was a member of the University Club, was a Mason, belonged to the Summit Lodge, Palladin Commandery, and the Osman Temple Shrine, was a Carleton College trustee from 1930 to 1947, resided at 677 Dayton Avenue in 1907, officed at the German American Bank Building in 1907, and died in Ramsey County. Thomas Edward Irvine (1910-1953,) the son of Horace Hill Irvine and Clothilde McCullough Irvine, was born in St. Paul, received his preparatory education at the St. Paul Academy and at the Evans School, Tucson, Arizona, attended Princeton University from 1930 until 1932, formed the F. I. Products Company, a wholesale distributor of lumber and building supplies, in St. Paul in 1941, organized the Wyotana Company, a Bentonite and Vermiculite mining company in Wyoming and Montana, in 1945, merged the two companies to form Tirvin, Inc, in St. Paul in 1945, started a flight deparment within Tirvin Company in 1947, organized the Gopher Aeronautical Company, an airplane sales and rental firm, in St. Paul in 1950, was a member of the board of directors of General Timber Service Company, Inc., a subsidiary of the Weyerhauser Timber Company, purchased a part of Key Largo, Florida, in 1951 and made the area into a yacht harbor, was a member of the board of directors of Northwest Airlines, married Sally Ordway, was interested in horses, hunting, polo, and boats, was a member of the White Bear Yacht Club, was a member of the University Club, was a member of the St. Paul Athletic Club, was a member of the Rondo Gun Club of St. Paul, and died in St.Paul. Thomas Edward Irvine and Sally Ordway Irvine were the parents of Thomas Edward Irvine, Horace Hills Irvine, John Ordway Irvine, Sally Gilman Irvine, and William Edwin Irvine. Hilma LeDell was an employee of the Irvine family during the 1920's. Horace H. Irvine II was the chairman of the Board of Directors of Hadco Corporation, was the president of the National Opera Institute in 1976, and was a member of the board of directors of the Boston Opera. The McCullough burial plot at Oakland Cemetery includes the graves of Edward Benjamin McCullough (1852-1941) and Belle Gerturde McCullough (1860-1923.) The property is owned by the State of Minnesota. [See note on the White Bear Yacht Club for 18 Kenwood Parkway.] [See note on the University Club for 420 Summit Avenue.] [See note on Whitney.]
1009 Summit Avenue: William Bannon House; Built in 1901 (1896 according to the National Register of Historic Places and 1902 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Tudor Revival/Victorian in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The structure is a two story, 3622 square foot, five bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1903 city directory indicates that Annie Bannon, a cashier with Bannon & Company, boarded at this address. Little Sketches of Big Folks indicates that William O'Brien resided at this address in 1907. The book of Minnesotans: a biographical dictionary of leading living men of Minnesota, edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, indicates that William Bannon resided at this address in 1907. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. William Bannon, their daughter, and Miss Anna Bannon all resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that William Bannon resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. William Bannon resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that William Bannon and his wife, Clara Bannon, resided at this address. William Bannon (1851-1936) was the owner, with his brother, George Bannon, of the Bannon & Company Department Store in St. Paul. The Bannon & Company store was a five story building located at the corner of Minnesota Street and West Seventh Street in the early 20th Century and since has been demolished. William Bannon was born in Abbeyleix, Queens County, Ireland, emigrated to the United States in 1886, moved to St. Paul, was a proprietor of the People's Department Store at 72-80 East Seventh Street, married Clara Frances Hawk, of Canton, Ohio, in St. Paul, was a Methodist Episcopalian, was a member of the Royal Arcanum, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, and died in Ramsey County. Anna Bannon ( -1924) died in Ramsey County. William Bannon and Clara Frances Hawk Bannon were the parents of a daughter, Dorothy Bannon. The house was built for $12,000. The previous owners of record of the property were Mary E. O'Toole and Terrance S. O'Toole and the current owner of record is James Rowland. [See the note for William J. O'Brien for 1034-1038 Summit Avenue.] [See note on Lockwood.] [See note on George Bannon for 792 West Osceola Avenue.]
1017 Summit Avenue: Frank J. Bowlin House; Built in 1913 (1901 according to the National Register of Historic Places and 1915 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style; Ernest Hartford and Silas Jacobson, architects. The structure is a two story, 5290 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Frank J. Bowlin resided at this address from 1914 to 1962. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Bowlin resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Frank J. Bowlin, the vice president of the Bowlin Realty Company, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Bowlin resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Frank J. Bowlin, the president of the Bowlin Realty Company, and his wife, Cecelia Bowlin, and Angela C. Bowlin, a clerk, all resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Frank J. Bowlin, a member of the Class of 1935, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The original owner of the house was R. J. Bowlin. Bowlin was president of Wholesale Liquors and resided at 760 Summit Avenue in 1913. The house was constructed by Bowlin as an investment property. The 1920 city directory indicates that Frank J. Bowlin was the Vice President of the Bowlin Realty Company and resided at this address. The current owners of record of the property are David P. Peterson and Susan J. Peterson. Henry T. Puvogel had a florist business at the nearby former 1021 Summit Avenue in 1892. [See note on Jacobson.]
1027 Summit Avenue: Hopewell Clarke House; Built in 1913 (1887 according to the National Register of Historic Places and 1915 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival/Mildly Prairie Style in style; Peter J. Linhoff, architect. The structure is a two story, 5315 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, brick house. The house cost $16,000 to build. In 1916, Hopewell Clark was a member of the Minnesota Historical Society and resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Hopewell Clark resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Hopewell Clark and Hopewell Clarke both resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Hopewell Clark resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Hopewell Clarke resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Hopewell Clarke was the chief of the Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Company expedition to the headwaters of the Mississippi River in October, 1886, which refuted the claim of Captain Willard Glazier (1841-1905) of having discovered the true source of the Mississippi River. Clarke also prepared or kept a notebook on surveys in Cass County, Minnesota. The previous owners of record of the property were the trustees for Keith V. Chilgren and T. Lynn Chilgren and the current owner of record is the board of trustees of Hamline University. [See the note for Hopewell Clark for 805 Portland Avenue.] [See note on Linhoff.]
1034-1038 Summit Avenue: William W. O'Brien House,Former Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet Convent; Built in 1900 (1906 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Jacobethan/Tudor Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The structure is a two story, 7162 square foot, eight bedroom, four bathroom, one half-bathroom,brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2005 for $1,740,500. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1889 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Renz and F. A. Renz resided at this address. The 1891 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Renz and O. M. Renz resided at this address. The 1893 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Renz, Dr. G. A. Renz, and O. M. Renz resided at this address. In 1896, Otto Renz resided at this address, when he was robbed of cash, a gold watch, and articles of clothing by a burglar. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Frank A. Renz and Amelia Renz (1823-1905,) who was born in Germany of German-born parents and who died of apoplexy, husband and wife, resided at 1034 Summit Avenue in 1905. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Frank A. Renz (1825-1907,) the widower father of Gustav A. Renz, who was born in Germany to parents also born in Germany and who died of apoplexy, resided at 1032 Lincoln Avenue in 1907. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that William O'Brien resided at this address from 1907 to 1916. The 1910 city directory indicates that William W. O'Brien was the president of Putnam Lumber Company and resided at this address. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that William A. Tilden resided at this address from 1917 to 1942. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Tilden and their daughter resided at 1034 Summit Avenue. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Tilden, their daughters, and G. W. Tilden all resided at 1034 Summit Avenue. The 1930 city directory indicates that William A. Tilden, the president of the Tilden Produce Company, and his wife, Agnes Tilden, resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that George W. Tilden, who attended the school from 1916 until 1918, resided at 1034 Summit Avenue. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that a residence of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet was located at this address from 1948 to 1954 and that the Convent of St. Luke's was located at this address from 1955 to 1963. Nancy L. Thompson, a great great granddaughter of Frank A. Renz, indicates that that the predecessor Renz house was a farm style house which faced Oxford, but that the bulk of the land faced Summit Avenue, that the present house was built after Amelia Renz died in 1905 and after Frank A. Renz moved with his son, O. M. Renz, to Frank Joseph Renz's home at 1032 Lincoln Avenue, and that the farm house was torn down by the builder of the current house. William J. O'Brien (1856- ,) the son of John O'Brien and Mary Carroll O'Brien, was born in Taylors Falls, Minnesota, was educated in the common schools of Taylors Falls, Minnesota, was a logger in the lumber woods from 1874 until 1880, was self-employed in the logging business from 1880 until 1902, married Julia A. Mullery in 1892, became a manufacturer of lumber in 1892 with holdings in many parts of the United States, was the president and a member of the board of directors of the Virginia & Rainy Lake Lumber Company, was the president and a member of the board of directors of the Putnam Lumber Company, resided at 1009 Summit Avenue in 1907, and officed at the Palladio Building in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1907. William O'Brien, initially of Stillwater, Minnesota, and later of St. Paul, was a logger and lumber baron who, before 1906, purchased a 180 acre riverfront parcel of land on the St. Croix River near Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, that was once owned by lumber companies and which was donated by Alice O'Brien, his daughter, in 1945, to the State of Minnesota as a state park in his memory. William J. O'Brien lacked any formal education, initially cut ties under contract for Frederick Weyerhaeuser, was an uncanny judge of timber and began to buy little lots of timber, became the controlling stockholder of the Putnam Lumber Company, formed the Mullery-McDonald Lumber Company of Duluth, Minnesota in 1909, purchased large tracts of timber in Florida, and built a logging railroad out of Jacksonville, Florida, that was sold to the Atlantic Coastline Railroad, eventually leading to unsuccessful litigation in the U. S. Supreme Court that caused him to leave Florida. The Carpenter-O'Brien Lumber Company was incorporated under the laws of Delaware in 1913 and had operations in Florida, with a fine sawmill plant in Eastport, Florida, to mill pine logs, which was sold to the Brooks-Scanlon Corporation. M. L. Fleischel was the chairman of the Carpenter-O'Brien Lumber Company in Jacksonville, Florida. The Carpenter-O'Brien Lumber Company had a ship, the S. S. William J. O'Brien, built to haul two million board feet of lumber per trip to its yard on Staten Island, New York, but the ship was sold to the U. S. Government during World War I. William O'Brien was the grandfather of William J. "Bill" O'Brien (1930-2007,) an investment counselor, a Conservative Caucus/Republican member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from District 45 (St. Paul) from 1963 until 1966, a Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Economic Development, a member of the Minnesota Historical Society Board, Minnesota State Auditor from 1969 to 1971, and an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Minnesota Lieutenant Governor. Thomond Robert O'Brien Sr. (1933-2007,) the developer of the Commodore Hotel and the Angus Hotel in St. Paul, emeritus trustee of the Science Museum of Minnesota, honorable lifetime trustee of the Minnesota Historical Society, chair of the Fort Snelling State Park Association, director of the Minnesota Opera, director of the Bach Society of Minnesota, board member of the Ramsey County Historical Society, and president of the University Club of St. Paul, also was a grandson of William O'Brien. F. A. Renz (1825-1907) was born near Baden-Baden, Germany, emigrated to the United States in 1846, initially was a stone blaster employed by a railroad in Enfield, New Hampshire, then was a Boston water works employee, then was a farm laborer in Rutland, Massachusetts, then was employed in a glass and china warehouse in New York City, settled in St. Paul in 1851, initially was a member of the survey party of Lieutenant J. H. Simpson, then engaged in a confectionery business, was the first candymaker in Minnesota, sold the business in 1857 and moved to Kansas, returned to Europe, returned to Minnesota in 1858, farmed in Carver County, Minnesota from 1858 until 1863, was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives representing Carver County (Districts 19 and 6) in 1859 and in 1865, was the chairman of the board of supervisors of Chanhassen township, Minnesota, was a justice of the peace, was the register at the U. S. Land Office at Henderson, Minnesota, from 1861 until 1863, returned to St. Paul in 1865, briefly was a partner of George Benz, then owned a distillery and the Jacob Bensburg brewery until it was destroyed by fire, was a delegate to the state Republican convention for the Ramsey-Washburn faction of the Minnesota Republican Party in 1868, was the St. Paul city treasurer from 1873 until 1882, was the vice president of the Franklin Building & Loan Society in 1876, and was the first superintendent of the St. Paul workhouse at Como Lake, serving from 1883 until 1885. Frank A. Renz (1825-1907) was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives representing Carver County (Districts 19 and 6) from 1859 until 1861 and in 1865. In 1879, F. A. Renz was the city treasurer of the City of St. Paul. In 1884, F. A. Renz was the secretary of the St. Paul Workhouse. Frank J. Renz, a son of F. A. Renz, was issued a U. S. patent (#779183) for a dovetailing-machine. Otto M. Renz was also a son of F. A. Renz, married Helen Schultz, and the couple had a daughter, Helen Renz (Mrs. John Rodger) Gow. Amalia Renz (1823-1905) was born in Germany and died in Ramsey County. Frank A. Renz (1825-1907) was born in Germany and died in Ramsey County. The house was built for $25,000. The previous owners of record of the property were Elizabeth J. Houghton and William C. Houghton and the current owner of record is Barbara Jean Daquila. [See note on Lockwood.]
1035 Summit Avenue: Jacob Danz II House/St. Luke's Convent; Built in 1895 (1901 for the original house according to the Minnesota Historical Society and 1965 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Contemporary in style. The property is tax-exempt. The structure cost $358,000 to build. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1879 city directory indicates that Joseph H. Morong, a carpenter with a business located on Eighth Street between Cedar Street and Minnesota Street, resided on the North side of Summit Avenue one address East of Oxford Street. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Jacob Danz resided at this address from 1902 to 1903 and that Christian Fry resided at this address from 1905 to 1919. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Frederick Rudolph Welz and Christian Fry resided at this address in 1906. The book of Minnesotans: a biographical dictionary of leading living men of Minnesota, edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, indicates that Christian Fry resided at this address in 1907. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Margaret Fry (1830-1909,) the widowed mother of John S. Fry, who was born in Germany to parents also born in Germany and who died of old age, resided at this address in 1909. Before the convent was built, this was the Frederick R. Welz residence in 1906. In 1917, Christian Fry and his wife, Maria J. Fry, resided at this address and were the parents of Amherst A. Fry, a World War I veteran. The 1918 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. Christian Fry, their daughter, and Henry Fry all resided at this address. World War I veterans Amherst A. Fry and Henry W. Fry both resided at this address in 1919. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Jefferson resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Thomas D. Hogan and his wife, Anna E. Hogan, resided at this address. The original house at this address was razed in 1964. The Fry burial plot at Oakland Cemetery includes the graves of Margaret Fry (1829-1909,) John S. Fry (1859-1936,) and Emma M. Fry (1868-1908.) Amherst A. Fry (1894-1967,) a Sergeant in the U. S. Army, is buried in the National Cemetery at Fort Snelling. Henry Fry (1888-1961,) a Corporal in the U. S. Army, is buried at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in Texas. Frederick R. Welz was the president of the Welz & Fry Hotel Company, proprietors of the Hotel Ryan. Christian Fry (1851- ,) the son of John Fry and Margaret Smith Fry, was born in Grove, Alleghany County, New York, was educated in the district school of Grove, New York, and attended for one term the academy, Nunda, New York, graduated from the University of Louisville Medical School in 1874, married Marie T. Zuelz at Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1880, practiced medicine in Perry County, Indiana, from 1874 until 1880, started drug store at Indianapolis, Indiana, from 1880 until 1883, moved to St. Paul in 1883, engaged in retail drug business until 1888, was a hotel proprietor, was a physician, owned a drug store, bought the Merchants' Hotel with his father-in-law in 1888 and conducted it until 1893, and was part owner with his father-in-law of the Ryan Hotel from 1893 until 1904, retired, was a Republican, was a Mason, was a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, engaged in the hobbies of billiards and fishing, and was a member of the Commercial Club. Christian Fry was the secretary and treasurer of the Welz & Fry Hotel Company. Jacob Danz (1852- ,) the son of Frank Danz and Helen Siebert Danz, was born in New York City, New York, was educated in schools of New York City, New York, attended Manhattan College, New York City, New York, for three years, moved to St. Paul in 1870, initially married Louise Esch at St. Paul, subsequently married __?__ Krank at St. Paul, was a trombonist and baritonist in the Great Western Band for 20 years, was an organizer and the superintendent of the Home & Danz Company, sold the Home & Danz Company after 20 years in business to the American Can Company of New York, was a Democrat, was the vice president of the Minnesota Game and Fish Commission under Governor Lind, was retired in 1907, was a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, was a member of the Junior Pioneers, and resided at 924 Hague Avenue in 1907. Jacob Danz was involved in litigation with Uri L. Lamprey over duck hunting rights on a privately owned lake in Lamprey V. Danz, 86 Minn. 317 (1902.) In 1899, Jacob Danz II was the vice president of the State Game and Fish Commission. From around 1880 to 1915, the Jacob Danz Company manufactured duck and goose hunting decoys. In 1898, Jacob Danz II was issued two patents (#597051 and #649979) by the U. S. Patent Office for improvements to a pail and its handle. By 1917, Jacob Danz II had moved to Los Angeles, California, as reflected in a U. S. patent (#1141941) issued for a combined game and shell bag. The current owner of record of the property is the Jesuit Novitiate. [See note for Frederick Welz for 1883 Summit Avenue.] [See note for Uri L. Lamprey for 175 Sherman Street.]
1042 Summit Avenue: John McAnulty House; Built in 1920; Bungalow in style; McAnulty Company, architects. The structure is a one story, 1636 square foot, two bedroom, three bathroom, stucco house, with a two car tuck-under garage, which was last sold in 1999 for $285,000. The 1930 city directory indicates that William C. Burns, a salesman, and his wife, Theresa Burns, resided at this address. John McAnulty was president of the American Building Company. The current owner of record of the property is John C. Kluznik. John Kluznik contributed to the Tom Tancredo for President campaign in 2007-2008.
1046 Summit Avenue: Platt B. Walker House; Built in 1920; Tudor Villa in style; McAnulty Company, architects. The structure is a two story, 2790 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The house cost $6,500 to construct. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Walker resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Platt B. Walker, Jr., a salesman, and his wife, Grace S. Walker, resided at this address. Platt Bayliss Walker was born in New Jersey and married Anstis Barlow, who was a daughter of Thomas Barlow of New York City. The couple had a son, Thomas Barlow Walker (1840-1928), the founder of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1927, one of the nation's primary resources for contemporary art. Thomas B. Walker (1840- ,) the son of Platt Bayliss Walker and Anstis/Antis Keziah Barlow Walker, was born in Xenia, Green County, Ohio, was educated by his mother, graduated from Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio, was a traveling salesman employed by Fletcher Hulet, a manufacturer of Berea grindstones, moved to Paris, Illinois, was engaged in the purchase of timber land and in cutting cross ties for the Terre Haute & St. Louis RailRoad, returned to Ohio and taught school, moved to McGregor, Iowa, and engaged in commercial traveling, then moved to Minnesota in 1862, surveyed for the St. Paul & Duluth RailRoad line from 1862 until 1865, married Harriet G. Hulet in 1863 in Berea, Ohio, was employed on the survey for the cities of St. Paul and Duluth, Minnesota, began purchasing pine woodlands in 1868 with L. Butler and Howard W. Mills under the firm name of Butler, Mills & Walker, was in the lumber trade, was a member of the lumber firm of Camp & Walker, was the president of the Red River Lumber Company, was a member of the firm of Walker & Akeley, owners of pine lands, was a very successful land speculator, developed the city of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, was a member of the National Arts Society, was the originator and patron of the Minneapolis Fine Arts Society, was the originator and patron of the Minnesota Academy of Sciences, built the Minneapolis Public Library, was president of the Minneapolis library board, built the Minneapolis Central City Market, founded the Commission Row in Minneapolis, was the originator of the Minneapolis Business Men's union, was president of the Minneapolis Land & Investment Company, was an ardent patron of the Young Men's Christian Association, built the old Athenaeum in Minneapolis, was president of the Flour City National Bank in 1888, was the president of the Church Extension and Methodist Social Union of Minneapolis, resided at 803 Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis in 1907, and officed at 807 Hennepin Avenue in 1907. T. B. Walker acquired a private European and oriental art collection (Chinese porcelains, 18th century jades, Hudson River School paintings, and Old Master paintings) that was so extensive in 1887 that he hired a curator and opened the doors of his home to the public. The original Walker art collection was deaccessioned in the 1960's and a collection of contemporary American works was acquired. Thomas Walker's first job was as a government surveyor for George B. Wright, which put him in touch with the timberlands that were in northern Minnesota which he gradually acquired. The old Athenaeum Library Association was developed under Walker's guidance into the Minneapolis public library and Walker was re-elected its president for 28 years. In 1890, Thomas Barlow Walker and a group of wealthy Minneapolis industrialists incorporated the Minneapolis Land and Investment Company, leading to the founding of the city of St. Louis Park. Walker was a member of the National Arts Society an originator and a patron of the Minneapolis Fine Arts Society, the president of the Minnesota Academy of Sciences, an originator of the Business Men's union, an ardent patron of the Young Men's Christian Association, the president of the Church Extension and Methodist Social Union of Minneapolis, the president of the Flour City National Bank, and the builder of the Minneapolis Central City Market and the Commission District. Harriet Granger Hulet Walker (1841- ) was born in Berea, Ohio, was educated at Baldwin University, married Thomas Barlow Walker, a fellow student, in 1863, moved to Minneapolis, and was involved in philanthropic and charitable activities. In 1910, Harriet G. Hulet (Mrs. Thomas B.) Walker, the youngest daughter of Honorable Fletcher Hulet of Berea, Ohio, was the president of the Northwestern Hospital for Women & Children in Minneapolis, which was founded in 1882. The city of Walker, Minnesota, was named for Thomas Barlow Walker, the original owner of the town site and a lumberman operating in Cass County and several other northern Minnesota counties. Artist Hudson Walker is the grandson of Thomas Walker. The current owners of record of the property are Cheryl A. Johnson and Richard G. Johnson. [See note on the St. Paul & Duluth RailRoad.]
1058 Summit Avenue: Built in 1910. The structure is a one story, 2011 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2006 for $735,000. The previous owners of record of the property were J. Lawrence McIntyre and Mary E. McIntyre and the current owners of record of the property are Jane E. Baer and Bradley J. Benson.
1064 Summit Avenue: Built in 1959. The structure is a 2516 square foot, four bedroom, two bathroom, stucco splitlevel house, with a detached garage. The property was last sold in 2003 with a sale price of $437,500. The current owners of record of the property are Elizabeth Brewer and Rodney N. Brewer. Beth Brewer and Rod Brewer are the parents of Alex Brewer and Erik Brewer, French immersion school students in Independent School District No. 625, St. Paul.
1065 Summit Avenue: Saint Luke's School; Romanesque Revival in style. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District.
1068 Summit Avenue: Built in 1959. The structure is a two story, 2212 square foot, four bedroom, two bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. The previous owners of record of the property were Monica A. Polski and David L. Sauders and the current owner of record is Robert J. Polski, Jr., who is located at 101 East Fifth Street.
1079 Summit Avenue: St. Luke's Rectory and St. Luke's Catholic Church. Church built in 1894 and Rectory built in 1924 (1952 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Church Romanesque Revival in style and Rectory Contemporary in style. The property is tax-exempt. The 3.53 acre site contains three buildings, one, a three story, 103136 square foot, building that was built in 1950, the second, a one story, 34079 square foot, building that was built in 1918, and the third, a two story, 10269 square foot, building that was built in 1953, according to Ramsey County property tax records. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Edward A. Webb (1854-1915,) the husband of Luella Webb, who was born in India to parents born in England and who died of chronic valvular heart disease, resided at this address in 1915. The 1918 and 1924 city directories indicate that Mrs. Luella Webb resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Luella Webb, the widow of Edward A. Webb, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The current owner of record of the property is the Church of St. Luke.
1082 Summit Avenue: W. O. Washburn House; Built in 1910; Tudor Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 4681 square foot, nine bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. Washburn lived here until 1923. The Griggs family was the second owner and resident of the house. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Washburn resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Griggs resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Milton W. Griggs, the vice president and general manager of Griggs Cooper & Company, and his wife, Arline B. Griggs, resided at this address. In 1934, Milton W. Griggs, Arline Bayliss Griggs, Arline Griggs, Theodore Griggs, Chauncey Griggs, and Charles Griggs all resided at this address and were members of the Somerset Club and of the Womens Club of St. Paul. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Charles Edward Bayliss Griggs (1917- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1928 until 1935 and who attended Yale University, Milton W. Griggs (1888- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1900 until 1905, who graduated from Yale University in 1910, who served during World War I as a First Lieutenant Aviation in the Bureau of Aircraft Production, who was a member of the Minnesota Club, who was a member of the Somerset Club, who was a trustee of the Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Society, who was a trustee of the Miller Hospital, who was a director of the Chicago Great Western RailRoad, who was chairman of the Illinois Zinc Company, who was the president of the National American Wholesale Grocers Association from 1933 until 1936, and was the president of Griggs, Cooper & Company, manufacturing wholesale gracers, and Theodore W. Griggs (1914 - ,) who attended the school from 1926 until 1932, who attended the University of Minnesota in 1933, and who graduated from Yale University in 1937, all resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Albert L. Haman III (1929- ,) who attended the school from 1939 until 1946, who attended Harvard University, and who pursued the hobbies of music and writing, resided at this address. In 2007, Russell J. Jenson and Julie E. Jenson appealed three variances to the St. Paul Board of Zoning Appeals in order to split a parcel and create a buildable lot for a new single-family dwelling at this address. Milton W. Griggs married Arline Bayliss in Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York, in 1910 and the couple had four children, Arline Griggs (1911- ,) C. Milton Griggs (1913- ,) Theodore W. Griggs (1914- ,) and Bayliss Griggs (1917- .) Theodore Hunt Griggs (1872- ,) the son of Col. C. W. Griggs and Martha A. Gallup Griggs, was born in St. Paul, was educated in the St. Paul public schools, atended Carlton College, Northfield, Minnesota, and Washington College, Tacoma, Washington, was employed by the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company for one year, moved to New York, New York, and attended Dwight's School, graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in 1895, returned to St. Paul, was employed by Griggs, Cooper & Company, became the secretary of Griggs, Cooper & Company, was a First Lieutenant in Company "L" of the 15th Minnesota Regiment of U. S. Volunteers, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a member of the White Bear Yacht Club, was a member of the St. Paul Town & Country Club, was a member of the Amateur Athletic Association, was a member of the Travelers Protective Association, was a member of the Cloister Society of Yale, was the secretary of the St. Paul Automobile Club, resided at 530 Holly Avenue in 1907, and officed at 242 East Third Street in 1907. W. O. Washburn was a member of a Special Minnesota Senate Investigating Committee, along with Harry Curran Wilbur, in 1923, charged with investigating Communism in Minnesota. Washburn was associated with the American Hoist & Derrick Company and was a member of the Citizen's Alliance in St. Paul in the 1920's, along with Charles W. Ames of the Public Safety Commission, E. S. Warner, one of the founders of the Minnesota Employer's Association, M. W. Waldorf of Waldorf Paper Products Co., C. G. Roth of the St. Paul Hotel, J. G. Ordway of Crane Co. of Minnesota, Frederick R. Bigelow of St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance, Cyrus P. Brown, President of First National Bank of St. Paul, Richard C. Lilly, President of Merchant's National Bank of St. Paul, W. P. Kenny of Great Northern Railway, and Leslie Gedney of Gedney Pickles. The Citizen's Alliance of St. Paul attempted to disrupt Communist and labor union activities, primarily attempting to maintain open shop employers against union demands for closed shops. The Citizen's Alliance of Ramsey & Dakota Counties was founded in 1920, harkening back to the Citizen's Association of St. Paul, an employer organization which had been active in 1903. Real estate magnate and former Ramsey County sheriff E. A. "Crape Hanger" Davidson was the primary functionary of the organization, with a $12,000 salary in 1922. Davidson had been appointed Ramsey County sheriff by Governor J. A. A. Burnquist in 1917, when the elected Sheriff John Wagener was removed by Governor Burnquist for failing to act during the streetcar operators' strike against Horace Lowry's Twin City Rapid Transit Company, and called out the recently organized business owners militia, the St. Paul Civilian Auxiliary. The St. Paul Civilian Auxiliary trained at St. Thomas Academy, then located adjoining the College of St. Thomas, with the approval and support of Archbishop John Ireland and the Catholic Church. Joseph Alfred Arner "J. A. A." Burnquist (1879-1961,) was born in Dayton, Iowa, graduated from Carleton Academy in 1898, graduated from Carleton College with a bachelor's degree in 1902, graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree in 1904, graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1905, was a Republican, was a lawyer in St. Paul, married Mary Louise Cross in 1906, was a member of Phi Betta Kappa, was a member of Delta Sigma Rho, was a member of the Order of the Coif, was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives representing Ramsey County (District 33) from 1909 to 1911, was lieutenant governor from 1913 to 1915, was Minnesota governor from 1915 to 1921, succeeding Winfield S. Hammond, who died in office, was the Minnesota attorney general from 1939 to 1955, was the president of the National Association of Attorneys General, and died in Minneapolis. In 1918, Congressman Charles Augustus Lindbergh, father of the famous aviator, came within 50,000 votes of defeating Governor J. A. A. Burnquist in the Republican primary. Under Burnquist, the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety was granted broad powers to protect the state and assist in the war effort and the Minnesota Home Guard was active in the surveillance of alleged subversive activities, in focusing opposition to labor unions and strikes, in locating draft evaders, in imposing a curfew on saloons and restaurants, in discouraging the use of non-English languages in schools, in registering and monitoring aliens, and suppressing political activities and civil liberties. Burnquist also was the president of the Modern Life Insurance Company and of the Plymouth Congregational Church in St. Paul. In 1918, Burnquist was involved in a prohibition controversy, The State of Minnesota, ex rel. J. A. A. Burnquist and W. F. Rhinow, relators, vs. the District Court of the State of Minnesota in and for the County of Ramsey in the Second Judicial District, respondents, 141 Minn. 1, 168 NW 634 (1918.) Governor J. A. A. Burnquist called a special session of the Minnesota Legislature and on September 8, 1919, it ratified the 19th Amendment. J. A. A. Burnquist and Mary Louise Cross Burnquist had four children, John McLean Burnquist, Mary Louise Burnquist, Ruth Mabel Burnquist, and Rowland Joseph Burnquist. William F. Rhinow (1878-1956) was the Minnesota Adjutant General in 1918 and was influential in the creation of the Minnesota Air National Guard. Milton Griggs was a graduate of Yale University. John Wagener (1862- ,) the son of John Wagener and Susanna Hahn Wagener, was born in St. Paul, graduated from the St. Paul Business College, married Julia Haggenmiller in 1866, was a Democrat, was a Ramsey County commissioner from 1877 until 1881, was a grocer from 1880 until 1894, then was a dealer in fuel from 1886 until 1906, was the president of a realty firm, John Wagener & Company, from 1886 until 1907, was a member of the St. Paul Commercial Club, was a member of the West St. Paul Club, was the St. Paul City Treasurer from 1893 until 1894, was the Ramsey County sheriff from 1896 until 1899, unsuccessfully sued the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners for the reimbursement of various Sheriff's Department costs that he claimed that he incurred, resided at the Buckingham Hotel in 1907, and officed at 490 East Seventh Street in 1907. The current owner of record of the property is Julie Elszinger Jensen. Julie Jensen is the communications manager for St. Paul-based Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco. [See note on the Great Northern RailRoad.] [See note on the Twin City Rapid Transit Company.] [See note on the Chicago Great Western RailRoad.]
1088 Summit Avenue: Built in 1922. The structure is a two story, 2560 square foot, six bedroom, two bathroom, half-bathroom, stucco house, with a one-car tuck-under garage. The 1930 city directory indicates that Jacob B. Weiss, his wife, Yetta Weiss, Arthur T. Purcell, assistant sales manager employed by Robinson Straus & Company, and his wife, Alice Purcell, all resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Joseph W. Milton (1903- ,) who attended the school from 1916 until 1921, resided at this address. The previous owners of record of the property were Matthew J. Schumacher and Michelle Jo Schumacher, who resided in Shorewood, Minnesota, and the current owner of record of the property is Matthew John Schumacher, who resides in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. Katherine A. Conlin, a lobbyist for the Minnesota Catholic Conference since 2007, graduated from the College of St. Benedict in 2002 and is located at this address. Little Sketches of Big Folks indicates that Herbert Wilkin Topping resided at the former nearby 1093 Summit Avenue in 1907. Herbert Wilkin Topping (1850-1915,) the son of Herbert Topping and Mary Brown Topping, was born in Maryport, Cumberland, England, received a public school education, emigrated to the United States, moved to Minnesota in 1870, resided in St. Paul in 1870, married Ida B. Mead in St. Cloud, Minnesota, in 1873, was a foundryman, was the secretary and treasurer of the St. Paul Foundry & Manufacturing Company in 1877, was the general manager of the St. Paul Foundry from 1884 until 1885, was a member of the board of directors of the Northern Pacific Bank of Brainerd, Minnesota, in 1891, was a vice president of the American Foundry Company of Tacoma, Washington, in 1896, was a vice president of Parker & Topping of Portland, Oregon from 1896 until 1900, was a partner with Charles N. Parker and vice president of Parker & Topping of Brainerd, Minnesota, after 1885, was the vice president of Parker & Topping, Inc. of Brainerd, Minnesota, after 1910, was a member of the board of directors of the Topping Brothers, a wholesale hardware business in New York, was engaged in the manufacture of iron and brass castings, was a Democrat, was an alderman for the Seventh Ward of St. Paul from 1884 until 1885, was the president of the St. Paul Park Board in 1906, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a member of the St. Paul Town & Country Club, was a member of the North-Western Railway Club, was an Episcopalian, was a Mason, and officed at the Endicott Arcade in 1907. Herbert W. Topping left an estate worth $1,000,000. Topping Street in St. Paul was named for H. W. Topping. [See note on the St. Paul Foundry Company for 1074 West Linwood Avenue.] [See note on Town & Country Club for 952 Wakefield Avenue.]
1096 Summit Avenue: Built in 1922; Dutch Colonial in style; American Building Company, architect and builder. The structure is a two story, 2122 square foot, four bedroom, two bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a two car tuck-under garage, which was last sold in 1999 for $247,000. The house cost $6,500 to build. The 1930 city directory indicates that Daniel E. Dwyer, Jr., the president of Dwyer-Maas Company, insurance agents, his wife, Betty M. Dwyer, and George Herman all resided at this address. The current owners of record of the property are Joseph M. Manion and Mary Jane Manion.
1099 Summit Avenue: Saint Thomas More's School/Former St. Luke's School; Built in 1950-1951; Southern European Romanesque Revival in style. St. Luke's School originally opened in 1904 and moved to the present site of the William Mitchell Law School in 1931. The present school was constructed in 1950-1951 on a lot which the church purchased in 1946.
1099 Summit Avenue: Church of Saint Thomas More/Former St. Luke's Catholic Church; Built in 1924; Southern European Romanesque Revival in style; John T. Comes, architect. This church was built in 1924 on property that was acquired in 1917. The cost of construction was $400,000. The parish was established in 1888. The greatest asset of the building is the rose window overlooking Summit Avenue below. There is a 1922 photo of the church. On January 1, 2008, with the civil and canonical merger of the Church of Saint Luke and the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, it formally became the Church of Saint Thomas More.
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