Thursday Night Hikes: St. Albans/Lower Crocus Hill Hike

Directions and Related Information

Start: Start at the Linwood Recreation Center, 860 St. Clair Avenue. Park in the small Linwood Park parking lot just east of the Recreation Center or, if the parking lot is full, along the street along St. Clair Avenue.

Go North: Proceed north three blocks on South Victoria Street from St. Clair Avenue to Fairmount Avenue

860 West St. Clair Avenue: Linwood Park Center; Built in 1991.

855 St. Clair Avenue: Hans H. Freng Apartment Building/Freng Apartments; Built in 1916.

865 West St. Clair Avenue: Coleman J. Conroy House; Built in 1904.

Cross Linwood Avenue

Cross Osceola Avenue

170 Victoria Street South: Built in 1890.

Go East: Turn east on Fairmount Avenue and proceed four blocks to Crocus Place

865 Fairmount Avenue: Pearson House/Arthur Sweeney, M.D., House/Olin Bailey Lewis House; Built in 1880; Georgian Revival in style; __?__ Ellenholm, architect.

862 Fairmount Avenue: Albert C. Floan House; Built in 1911; Georgian Revival in style; Buchner & Orth, architects.

857 Fairmount Avenue: Nathan S. Rose House; Built in 1902; Georgian Revival in style; E. P. Bassford, architect.

854-856 Fairmount Avenue: William Garland House; Built in 1890; Eastlake in style; O'Meyer & Thori, architects.

853 Fairmount Avenue: W. W. Pease House/Elmer W. Gifford House/Judge H. S. Gifford House; Built in 1892; Georgian Revival in style.

849 Fairmount Avenue: Edson Russell Hubbell House; Built in 1892; Queen Anne in style.

846 Fairmount Avenue: Field V. Garland House; Built in 1892; Eastlake in style; O'Meyer and Thori, architects.

845 Fairmount Avenue: Mary Young House; Built in 1923; Prairie School in style.

844 Fairmount Avenue: R. M. Tooker & M. F. Tooker House/George H. Fairclough House; Built in 1898; Georgian Revival in style.

839 Fairmount Avenue: Oscar Hallam House/Dr. J. T. Christison House; Built in 1905; Queen Anne in style; Emil Bostrum, architect.

836 Fairmount Avenue: William F. Schoch House; Built in 1915.

835 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1921; Bungalow in style.

832 Fairmount Avenue: Isaac Seddon House; Built in 1910; Queen Anne in style; Louis Lockwood, architect.

831 Fairmount Avenue: Built in 1911; Mission in style.

825 Fairmount Avenue: Joseph Sherwood Mackey House/G. B. Chapman & Frederic L. Paetzold House; Built in 1909; Queen Anne in style; __?__ Henley, architect.

822-824 Fairmount Avenue: M. F. Kerwin House; Built in 1900; Georgian Revival in style.

821 Fairmount Avenue: Former Fred B. Moore Residence/Alexander Donald House; Built in 1892.

818 Fairmount Avenue: Milford L. Merrill House; Built in 1882; A. D. Crossfield, architect.

815-817 Fairmount Avenue: Park R. Learned & C. E. Learned, Jr., House; Built in 1915; Prairie School in style.

814 Fairmount Avenue: Eugene P. Crossfield House; Built in 1887.

813 Fairmount Avenue: Francis H. Loomis House; Built in 1889; Willcox and Johnston, architects.

812 Fairmount Avenue: L. N. Dion House; Built in 1905; Colonial Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect.

808 Fairmount Avenue: Shea/Skaret House/Herbert H. Parkhouse House; Built in 1910; Georgian Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect.

807 Fairmount Avenue: Frank F. Loomis/Frederick Fleckenstein House/Rev. Frederick Eliot House; Built in 1899.

805 Fairmount Avenue: W. S. Vent House/Benjamin Gorham House; Built in 1914; Georgian Revival in style.

802 Fairmount Avenue: James Cleary House/Walter L. Mayo House; Built in 1897; Colonial Revival in style; E. P. Bassford, architect.

796 Fairmount Avenue: Alf E. Boyeson House; Built in 1892; Georgian Revival in style; Charles Engelbrecht, architect.

793 Fairmount Avenue: Asa G. Briggs House; Built in 1896; Georgian Revival in style; William Kingsley, architect.

792 Fairmount Avenue: Former S. C. Cook House/L. M. Abbey House/Carl P. Herbert House; Built in 1927; Queen Anne in style; Albert Zschocke, architect.

788 Fairmount Avenue: Henry Johnson House; Built in 1899; Bungalow in style.

784 Fairmount Avenue: J. E. Ricketts/Harry Dobner/Walter Stewart Grubbs House; Built in 1896; Georgian Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect.

783 Fairmount Avenue: Orlando J. Reynolds/Dr. Karl C. Wold/Olof I. Sohlberg House; Built in 1894; Shingle in style; C. P. Wildung, architect and builder.

776 Fairmount Avenue: Former S. L. Perrin Residence/Former C. S. Bunker Residence/W. K. Field House; Built in 1905; Colonial Revival in style; Walter Ife, architect.

775-777 Fairmount Avenue: Edward B. Smith House/Thomas H. Swem & Victor C. Gilman House; Built in 1909; Colonial Revival in style; O'Meyer & Thori, architects.

772 Fairmount Avenue: George B. Dodd House/Aldred A. Heckman House; Built in 1896; Georgian Revival in style.

Cross Avon Street

771 Fairmount Avenue: John E. Haycock House; Built in 1884; Queen Anne in style; Brown & Dowling, architects.

770 Fairmount Avenue: A. W. Trenholm House/Dr. Harry B. Zimmerman House; Built in 1900; Georgian Revival in style; H. M. Malloy, architect.

767 Fairmount Avenue: John E. Haycock House; Built in 1899; Georgian Revival in style; Henry Brown, architect.

764 Fairmount Avenue: H. G. Dobner/Frank de la Forest House; Built in 1905; Georgian Revival in style.

760 Fairmount Avenue: Peter McDonald House/M. C. Woodruff House; Built in 1888; Queen Anne in style; Louis Lockwood, architect.

759 Fairmount Avenue: F. W. Bagley House/Merritt W. Wheeler House; Built in 1890; Colonial Revival in style; John McGuire, architect.

757 Fairmount Avenue: R. C. Gooding House/Fred W. Bagley House; Built in 1895; Queen Anne in style; A. R. Dewey, architect.

756 Fairmount Avenue: Valentine J. Rothschild House/Kennon Valentine Rothschild House; Built in 1912; Queen Anne in style; A. H. Hass, architect.

753 Fairmount Avenue: Dixon S. Elliott House/George R. Slocum House; Built in 1899; Queen Anne in style.

750 Fairmount Avenue: Frank C. Bancroft House; Built in 1904; Georgian Revival in style.

749 Fairmount Avenue: Frank J. Kluckhohn House; Built in 1917.

746 Fairmount Avenue: George B. Graves House; Built in 1904; Georgian Revival in style.

742 Fairmount Avenue: Louis N. Sickels House; Built in 1904; Georgian Revival in style.

737 Fairmount Avenue: Dr. Lyle Cholwell Bacon House/Donald K. Backus House; Built in 1892; Georgian Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect.

731 Fairmount Avenue: Dennis A. Murphy House; Built in 1885; Tudor Revival in style; C. H. Johnston, architect.

727 Fairmount Avenue: Bishop H. Schriber House/Almon A. Greenman House; Built in 1895; Georgian Revival in style; Reed & Stem, architects.

721 Fairmount Avenue: H. W. McQuaid House/Leon G. Bigelow House/Benjamin G. Griggs House; Built in 1910; Tudor Revival in style.

720 Fairmount Avenue: Former Convent of the Visitation.

713 Fairmount Avenue: Edwin C. Leedy House; Built in 1910; Shingle in style.

707 Fairmount Avenue: Louis T. Jamme House/Lewis Arms Robinson House/Allen H. Stem House; Built in 1890; Georgian Revival in style; C. H. Johnston, Sr., architect.

703 Fairmount Avenue: George L. Beardslee House; Built in 1889; Shingle in style, Willcox & Johnston, architects.

702 Fairmount Avenue: James T. Clark House/Benjamin Kilbourne Edwards House/William A. Warren House; Built in 1891; Shingle in style; __?__ Hanlen, architect.

701 Fairmount Avenue: George L. Beardslee House/George H. Watson House/G. H. Ralston House; Built in 1892; Queen Anne in style; Willcox & Johnston, architects.

695 Fairmount Avenue: James L. Allen House/Martha Braley House/Norman Fetter House; Built in 1893; Queen Anne in style; J. T. Bennets, architect

692 Fairmount Avenue: Lt. Col. E. H. Schulz House/Dr. Edmund L. Warren House; Built in 1904; Georgian Revival in style.

689 Fairmount Avenue: Fred S. Blodgett House; Built in 1921.

688 Fairmount Avenue: J. T. McMillan, Jr., House; Built in 1911.

686 Fairmount Avenue: W. J. Murphy Residence; Built in 1911.

Cross Grotto Street

682 Fairmount Avenue: Dawson Moreland House/William Dawson House/Francis G. Okie House/Francis B. Tiffany House; Built in 1884; Shingle in style; W. T. McLaughlin, architect.

680 Fairmount Avenue: Allen H. Stem House/Judge Frederick M. Catlin House; Built in 1888; Shingle in style.

677 Fairmount Avenue: R. C. Helbert/Robert C. Holbert House; Built in 1892; Colonial Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect.

671 Fairmount Avenue: Dr. Herbert W. Davis House; Built in 1883; Georgian Revival in style; __?__ Nickel, architect.

666 Fairmount Avenue: R. M. Neely House/William W. Skinner House; Built in 1900; Tudor Revival or Colonial Revival, with Craftsman accents, in style.

665 Fairmount Avenue: John Wilkinson House; Built in 1912.

661 Fairmount Avenue: A. W. Ritzinger & R. C. Ramsay House; Built in 1890; Tudor Revival/Jacobethan in style.

657 Fairmount Avenue: Ruloff Fossum House/William G. Strickland House; Built in 1890; Georgian Revival in style.

654 Fairmount Avenue: J. F. Reimbold House; Built in 1902; Colonial Revival in style.

651 Fairmount Avenue: Rudolph Rossum House/Dr. Henry F. Hoyt House/Governor John Lind House; Built in 1896; Queen Anne in style, A. Stem, architect.

645 Fairmount Avenue: R. L. Ware House/Alvah H. Warren House; Built in 1897; Georgian Revival in style; Stevens, architect.

639 Fairmount Avenue: Willis Hall Vittum House/Dr. Alfred E. Comstock House; Built in 1898; Georgian Revival in style.

Cross St. Albans Street

633 Fairmount Avenue: Senator Frank B. Kellogg House; Built in 1891; Queen Anne in style; William H. Willcox, architect.

Go Southeast: Turn southeast on Crocus Place and proceed three short blocks around Crocus Place northeast to Goodrich Avenue

5 Crocus Place: Frank Edwin Ford & R. J. Elliott House/Frederick Stewart Bryant House; Built in 1892; Queen Anne/Victorian in style; Charles A. Wallingford, architect.

9 Crocus Place: W. H. S. Wright House/Augustus W. Clapp House/Benjamin W. Scandrett House; Built in 1894; Colonial Revival in style; Charles A. Wallingford, architect.

10 Crocus Place: 10 Crocus Place; Former J. S. Bangs Residence; Tudor Revival in style; Built in 1911

15 Crocus Place: Ker D. Dunlap House; Built in 1889; Colonial Revival in style; Charles A. Wallingford, architect.

18 Crocus Place: Grant S. Macartney House; Built in 1922; Georgian Revival in style; Charles Bassford, architect.

27 Crocus Place: Gov. Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist House/Albert L. Haman House; Built in 1902; Queen Anne in style; J. M. Carlson, architect.

30 Crocus Place: Robert Campbell Wight House/Grant Van Sant House/Harold J. Richardson House; Built in 1899; Renaissance Revival in style; A. H. Stem, architect.

40 Crocus Place: Leo Goodkind House/Goodkind conjoined House; Built in 1914; Tudor Revival/Cotswold Cottage in style; A. H. Stem, original architect, and David Heide, renovation architect.

46 Crocus Place: Dr. Harry P. Ritchie House; Built in 1907; Tudor Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect.

54 Crocus Place: David W. Aberle House; Built in 1926; Jacobethan in style; H. M. Elmer, architect.

90 Crocus Place: Vincent R. O'Brien House; Built in 1926; Tudor Revival in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect.

91 Crocus Place: Alvin R. Bushnell/John B. West House; Built in 1863; Queen Anne/Shingle in style; Charles E. Joy, architect.

94 Crocus Place: Carl H. Bjorn/Carl H. Biorn House; Built in 1891; Georgian Revival in style; Krapp & Holm, architects.

99 Crocus Place: L. T. Jones House; Built in 1906; Colonial Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect.

626 Goodrich Avenue: Frank J. Ottis House/Henry Lawrence Donahower House/F. Scott Fitzgerald Residence/Sarah Greve Kalman House; Built in 1892; Queen Anne in style.

621-623 Goodrich Avenue: Edward J. Megroth/E. J. Megrath House; Built in 1902; Georgian Revival in style.

Go East: Turn east on Goodrich Avenue and proceed one very short block to Crocus Hill

620-622 Goodrich Avenue: J. A. Forbes House; Built in 1870; Georgian Revival in style.

617-619 Goodrich Avenue: Dr. Harry McCurdy Lufkin House/Alice Stokes (Mrs. Cyrus Thurston) Johnston House; Built in 1888; Queen Anne in style, __?__ Steven, architect.

613 Goodrich Avenue: Charles J. A. Morris House/Emil E. Nelson House; Built in 1890; Shingle in style; Wilcox & Johnston, architects.

607 Goodrich Avenue: Marcus D. Munn House/F. Y. Locke House; Built in 1892; Shingle in style; J. W. Stevens, architect.

601 Goodrich Avenue: Edward Arthur Cammack House; Built in 1891; Queen Anne in style; Millard & Joy, architects.

15 Crocus Hill: Arthur H. Savage House/George P. Young House; Built in 1922; Tudor Revival in style; Holyoke, Jemne & Davis, architects.

14 Crocus Hill: Edgar B. Ober House; Built in 1957.

Go North: Turn north on Crocus Hill and proceed to the end of the street and then reverse direction

13 Crocus Hill: Built in 1922.

12 Crocus Hill: Harrison R. Johnston House; Built in 1923; Colonial Revival in style.

11 Crocus Hill: Clarence H. Johnston, Jr. House; Built in 1912; Tudor Revival/Arts & Craft in style; C. H. Johnston, Jr., architect; N. P. Frandsen & Company, contractor.

10 Crocus Hill: Dr. C. Eugene Riggs House/Charles W. Briggs House; Built in 1911; Georgian Revival in style.

9 Crocus Hill: Charles L. Sommers House; Built in 1905.

8 Crocus Hill: Dr. Arnold Schwyzer House; Built in 1904; Art Moderne in style.

7-9 Crocus Hill: John L. Erdahl House; Built in 1907; Georgian Revival in style; Clarence H. Johnston, architect.

6 Crocus Hill: Former Theodore L. Schurmeier Residence; Built in 1903; Georgian Revival in style; Willcox & Johnston, architects.

5 Crocus Hill: Former George Sommers Residence/Former Russell R. Dorr Residence; Built in 1955.

4 Crocus Hill: Edmund Rice House/George R. Finch House/Gov. William Rush Merriam House; Built in 1886; Queen Anne in style; William Channing Whitney, architect; Dowling & Ruse, builders.

3 Crocus Hill: Former John Q. Adams Residence/Former William K. Fobes Residence; Built in 1962.

2 Crocus Hill: Albert B. Savage/Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., House; Built in 1909; Queen Anne/Tudor Revival in style.

1 Crocus Hill: Former John D. O'Brien Residence/Dillon J. O'Brien House/Cass Gilbert House/John C. I. Corning House; Built in 1891; Queen Anne/Tudor Revival in style; Cass Gilbert and James Knox Taylor, architects

Go West:

Go East: Turn east on Lincoln Avenue and proceed one block to Grand Avenue

572 West Lincoln Avenue: Lincoln Oaks Apartments; Charlie and Paula Harmon Apartment; Built in 1922; Georgian Revival in style.

567 Lincoln Avenue: Ladislav J. Pavlicek House/Harold Goodkind House; Built in 1910; Tudor Revival in style; O. G. Amlee, architect.

562 West Lincoln Avenue: F. F. McIver House/William B. Joyce House; Built in 1884.

560 Lincoln Avenue: F. Dabney House/Gustave L. Flitch House; Built in 1884; Queen Anne in style.

558 West Lincoln Avenue: William Foulke House; Built in 1890; Eastlake in style; W. H. Castner, architect.

Go Northwest: Turn northwest on Grand Avenue and proceed one short block to Oakland Avenue

Go North: Turn north on Oakland Avenue and proceed one very short block to Grand Hill

Go East: Turn east on Grand Hill and proceed one block to South Heather Place

561 Grand Hill: William R. Dorr House; Built in 1884; Shingle in style.

555 Grand Hill: Thaddeus Crane Jones House; Built in 1894; Queen Anne in style.

547-549 Grand Hill/Former 547-549 Grand Avenue: Joseph Chambers McKibbin Residence; Built in 1909.

535 Grand Hill: Frederick Gerald Ingersoll House/Reuben Warner House/George A. Mairs House; Built in 1894; Queen Anne in style; Wilcox & Johnston, architect.

530 Grand Hill/Former 530 Grand Avenue: Charles H. Bigelow House/Horace E. Stevens House; Built in 1885; Gothic Revival in style; Reed & Stem, architects.

521 Grand Hill: J. H. Ames House/Helen Dean Lightner Residence; Built in 1891; Queen Anne in style; A. F. Gauger, architect.

520 Grand Hill: Howard N. Elmer House/Clark House/John Norris Jackson House; Built in 1894; Georgian Revival in style; Gilbert & Taylor, architects.

514 Grand Hill: William J. Dean House/Walter J. Kennedy House; Built in 1892; Colonial Revival in style; Cass Gilbert, architect.

513 Grand Hill: William J. Dyer House/Robert Hoit Johnston House; Built in 1889; Colonial Revival in style.

511 Grand Hill: Peyton Boyle House/Horatio D. West House; Built in 1894.

506 Grand Hill: James Douglas Armstrong House; Built in 1890; Cass Gilbert, architect.

502 Grand Hill: Peter C. Stohr House/Dr. Wallace H. Cole House; Built in 1894; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect.

501 Grand Hill: Charles Wilberforce Ames House; Built in 1886; Shingle in style; J. N. Tilton, architect.

500 Grand Hill: Built in 1956.

489 Grand Hill: Former Dr. Louis T. Lawton Residence/Carl Trueworthy Schuneman House; Built in 1925; Tudor Revival in style.

483 Grand Hill: John Norris Jackson House; Built in 1907; Tudor Revival in style; A. Dahlman, builder.

480 Grand Hill: Harris Richardson House/Dr. Fayette Dwight Kendrick House/Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser House; Built in 1892; Tudor Revival in style; William Channing Whitney, architect.

475 Grand Hill: Arthur G. Rice House; Built in 1886; Shingle in style; Charles T. Mould, architect.

Go Southeast: Turn southeast on South Heather Place and proceed around the horseshoe shaped street northwest to the corner of Summit Court, South Heather Place and South Heather Drive

1 Heather Place: Cass Gilbert House/C. Reinold Noyes House/Judge Harriet Lansing House; Built in 1894; Tudor Revival in style; Cass Gilbert & James Knox Taylor, architects.

5 Heather Place: Benjamin L. Goodkind House/Samuel W. Mairs House/Stan Donnelly House; Built in 1910; Tudor Revival/Cotswold Cottage in style; Reed & Stem, architects.

7 Heather Place: William L. Goodkind House/Thomas L. Daniels House/Reine Humbird Myers House; Built in 1910; Tudor Revival/Cotswold Cottage in style; Reed & Stem, architects, and John Lassila, renovation interior designer.

Go East: Turn east on Summit Court and proceed east and then turn north to Summit Lane

33 Summit Court: Paul H. Gotzian House/Charles A. Boalt House; Built in 1889.

29 Summit Court: Former Sylvester M. Cary Residence/Former Samuel McMillan Shepard Residence; Built in 1900.

27 Summit Court: Col. Robert Bunker Coleman Bement House; Built in 1889.

19 Summit Court: George C. Squires House/Charles Ffolliott House/Stanley Gates House; Built in 1900.

18 Summit Court: Bishop Mahlon Norris Gilbert House/Nick Frederick Helmers House; Built in 1900.

12 Summit Court: Wilbur H. Howard House/Edwin H. McHenry House/Ether Leonard Shepley House; Built in 1890.

11 Summit Court: Rukard Hurd Residence/Dr. Brewer Mattocks Residence/Henry Burleigh Wenzell Residence; Built in 1898.

Cross South Lawton Street

Cross South Heather Drive

Go West: Turn west on Summit Avenue and proceed one block to Oakland Avenue

Go South: Turn south on Oakland Avenue and proceed to Grand Avenue

Go West: Turn west on Grand Avenue and proceed two blocks to St. Albans Street

568 Grand Avenue: Built in 1908; Philip T. Glidden House; Tudor Revival in style; Peter J. Linhoff, architect, Lindstrom & Anderson, builder.

569-571 Grand Avenue: Mrs. Eliza Mackenzie House/J. L. Ryan House; Built in 1903; Georgian Revival in style.

575-577 Grand Avenue: Dr. Alfred E. Comstock House; Built in 1905; Georgian Revival in style.

576-578 Grand Avenue: Oakdale Apartments; Built in 1876.

580 Grand Avenue: Built in 1965.

581 Grand Avenue: Lyndhurst Apartments; Built in 1919; Tudor Revival in style.

584 Grand Avenue: D. S. Hueller Residence; Built in 1880; Queen Anne in style.

585 Grand Avenue: William E. Suckow House; Built in 1910; Colonial Revival in style; Robert Sinclair, architect.

587 Grand Avenue: Philip Gilbert Residence; Built in 1925.

592 Grand Avenue: Charles Lysring Sommers Residence; Queen Anne in style; Reed & Stem, architects.

595 Grand Avenue: Milton Lightner and Drake Lightner House; Built in 1884; Tudor Revival in style; John Peterson, architect.

596 Grand Avenue: Dr. Thomas McDavitt House/Charles Eastwick Smith, Jr., House; Built in 1879; Shingle in style; Hodgson & Stem, architects.

598 Grand Avenue: Built in 1916; Queen Anne in style.

599 Grand Avenue: Nathaniel Pitt Langford House; Built in 1880; Georgian Revival in style.

600 Grand Avenue: C. E. Hughes House; Built in 1896; Italianate in style; A. F. Gauger, architect.

603 Grand Avenue: Augustine Langford House; Built in 1911; Queen Anne in style.

607 Grand Avenue: William Langford and Elizabeth Langford House; Built in 1901; Colonial Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect.

608 Grand Avenue: E. N. Ferdon House; Built in 1898; Georgian Revival in style.

614 Grand Avenue: Molloy Apartments; Edmund W. Bazille Residence; Built in 1910; Renaissance Revival in style.

622-624 Grand Avenue: Dale Apartments; Built in 1884.

623-625 Grand Avenue: The Ivy League Condominiums/Former Harvard Apartments; Built in 1905; Classical Revival in style.

627 Grand Avenue: The Ivy League Condominiums/Former Yale Apartments; Built in 1919; Colonial Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect.

628 Grand Avenue: Dale Apartments; Built in 1919; Ry Caanderser, architect.

635-637 Grand Avenue: Built in 1905; Classical Revival in style.

636 Grand Avenue: Dale Apartments; Built in 1919.

639-641 Grand Avenue: Grand Four Condominium; Built in 1886.

640-644 Grand Avenue: St. Paul Plumbing & Heating; Built in 1927; Keiffer Brothers, architects.

641 Grand Avenue: Built in 1886.

643-645 Grand Avenue: Built in 1899.

649 Grand Avenue: Built in 1899; Georgian Revival in style.

650 Grand Avenue: Built in 1900.

653 Grand Avenue: John B. West House; Built in 1900; Colonial Revival in style; Clarence H. Johnston, architect.

657 Grand Avenue: Kirkland Apartments/McDermott Apartments; Built in 1905; Colonial Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect.

661 Grand Avenue: Warren Apartments; Built in 1886; Renaissance Revival in style.

664 Grand Avenue: Former Ramaley Hall; Built in 1928.

669 Grand Avenue: Craft Apartments/Maryland Apartments; Built in 1905; Renaissance Revival in style.

670-672 Grand Avenue: Built in 1942.

Cross Dale Street

Go South: Turn south on St. Albans Street and proceed four blocks, turning slightly east at the end, to Kenwood Parkway

9 South St. Albans Street: George Sommers House/Henry E. Randall House; Built in 1893.

Cross West Lincoln Avenue

21-27 South St. Albans Street: Henry M. Byllesby Rowhouse; Frederick M. Dudley/Edward R. Sanford Residences; Built in 1893; Romanesque Revival/Victorian Romanesque in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect; C. P. Wildung, builder.

24 South St. Albans Street: St. Albans Apartments; Built in 1901; Italian Renaissance/Classical Revival apartment building in style; Hermann Kretz, architect, and Newman & Hoy, builders.

30 South St. Albans Street: Fillmore Apartments; Built in 1890 (1906 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Classical Revival in style.

42 South St. Albans Street: Walter Apartments; Built in 1906; Classical Revival/Colonial Revival in style; Carl P. Walden, builder.

61 South St. Albans Street: The Apollo Apartments; Built in 1904.

62 South St. Albans Street: Olympia Apartments. Built in 1903; Classical Revival/Colonial Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect; Thomas Brady, builder.

66 South St. Albans Street: Julian H. Sleeper House; Built in 1892; Queen Anne in style.

131 South St. Albans Street: Built in 1890; Queen Anne in style.

149 South St. Albans Street: Built in 1904; Tudor Revival in style.

Cross West Goodrich Avenue

Cross West Fairmount Avenue

Go South: Turn south on Kenwood Parkway and proceed one block to the Kenwood Parkway circle

11 Kenwood Parkway: John W. Daniels House; Built in 1917.

18 Kenwood Parkway: Eugene Towle House; Built in 1914; English manor in style; Mark Fitzpatrick, architect.

19 Kenwood Parkway: Worrell Clarkson House; Built in 1913; Georgian Revival in style.

25 Kenwood Parkway: Built in 1921; Georgian Revival in style.

26 Kenwood Parkway: Philip McQuillan/Phillip McQuillan House; Built in 1883; Prairie School in style; Round & Wager, architects.

27 Kenwood Parkway: Augustus Hoeveler Kennedy House; Built in 1890; Georgian Revival in style.

30 Kenwood Parkway: McNeil S. Stringer House; Built in 1885; English Cottage/Period Revival in style; C. H. Johnston, Jr., architect.

34 Kenwood Parkway: Harold P. Bend House; Built in 1925.

36 Kenwood Parkway: Max Toltz House; Queen Anne in style; Built in 1889.

38 Kenwood Parkway: George C. Powers House/Paul E. Benz House; Built in 1905; Queen Anne in style; Mould and McNicol, architects.

41 Kenwood Parkway: James E. Orme House; Built in 1889; Elizabethan in style.

42 Kenwood Parkway: Emil Geist House/Dr. George Guest House; Built in 1912.

44 Kenwood Parkway: Roger S. Kennedy House; Built in 1912; Georgian Revival in style.

Go East: Turn east and proceed around the Kenwood Parkway circle back to the corner of South St. Albans and West Osceola Avenue

Go West: Turn west on West Osceola Avenue and proceed four blocks to Milton Street South

683 West Osceola Avenue: I. H. Bronson Beebe House/P. H. Gotzian House; Built in 1890.

685 West Osceola Avenue: Built in 1882; Tudor Revival/Baronial in style.

691 West Osceola Avenue: Charles Straus House; Built in 1901; Queen Anne/Victorian in style; E. B. Bergholtz, architect, and E. N. Dodge, builder.

697 West Osceola Avenue: John L. Whitaker House; Built in 1890; Queen Anne/Victorian in style.

700 West Osceola Avenue: Alphonsa Liedl House; Built in 1890.

708 West Osceola Avenue: Rudolph Schneider House; Built in 1909.

712 West Osceola Avenue: William Lettau House/J. Abundius Michaud House; Built in 1888.

716 West Osceola Avenue: Dr. Lincoln E. Penny House; Built in 1888; Tudor Revival in style.

728 West Osceola Avenue: C. A. Eckman/Benjamin O. Chapman House; Built in 1892; Victorian in style; Walter Ife, architect, and E. J. Daly, builder.

736 West Osceola Avenue: Norton C. Brokaw House/Achille Michaud House; Built in 1892; Georgian Revival in style.

744 West Osceola Avenue: E. L. Patterson House/Eugene L. Patterson House; Built in 1912; Tudor Revival in style; Thomas Holyoke, architect; Joseph Morin, builder.

745 West Osceola Avenue: Nathaniel B. Hinckley House; Built in 1891; Georgian Revival in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect.

752 West Osceola Avenue: F. A. Nienhauser House; Built in 1899; Georgian Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect.

757 West Osceola Avenue: W. F. Dolke House; Built in 1914; Georgian Revival in style.

758 West Osceola Avenue: S. H. Dyer House; Built in 1887; Georgian Revival in style.

Cross South Grotto Street

761 West Osceola Avenue: Dr. Frederick Eugene Basil Foley House; Built in 1904.

762 West Osceola Avenue: C. D. Risser House; Built in 1895; Classical Revival in style.

767 West Osceola Avenue: C. L. Caldwell House; Built in 1889; Queen Anne in style; Joseph Trenter, architect.

768 West Osceola Avenue: J. B. Johnson House/Frank E. Hitchcox House; Built in 1888; Colonial Revival/Tudor Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect, and P. A. Anderberg, builder.

770 West Osceola Avenue: John Maurice Reilly House; Built in 1893; Georgian Revival in style.

775 West Osceola Avenue: Built in 1941; Colonial Revival in style.

780 West Osceola Avenue: C. E. Gall House; Built in 1907; Queen Anne in style.

784 West Osceola Avenue: Matthew A. Stewart House; Built in 1910; Georgian Revival in style.

787 West Osceola Avenue: John A. Swain/John A. Burns House; Built in 1904; Victorian in style; George Laurent, architect, and John Barnes, builder.

788 West Osceola Avenue: Samuel Wesley Raudenbush House/Knute H. Beckjord House/H. Thomas Quinlan House; Built in 1890; Georgian Revival in style.

789 West Osceola Avenue: F. H. Friend House/James L. Barry House; Built in 1912; Georgian Revival in style.

792 West Osceola Avenue: John Wade House; Built in 1897.

793 West Osceola Avenue: Albert J. Dickinson House; Built in 1922; Prairie School in style.

796 West Osceola Avenue: H. E. Erty House; Built in 1891; Georgian Revival in style; Charles Bassford, architect.

799 West Osceola Avenue: Max H. Herrmann House; Built in 1913; Tudor Revival in style.

Cross South Avon Street

803 West Osceola Avenue: Alfred J. Krank House; Built in 1906; Mildly Tudor Revival in style; Augustus F. Gauger, architect, and Krapp & Holm, builder.

806 West Osceola Avenue: Elmer S. Albriton House; Built in 1916.

807 West Osceola Avenue: Eugene Bryan House; Built in 1884; Tudor Revival in style.

812 West Osceola Avenue: Harry J. Murray House; Built in 1904; Georgian Revival in style.

813 West Osceola Avenue: George R. Foley House/W. J. Towle House; Built in 1899; Queen Anne/Victorian in style.

817 West Osceola Avenue: William P. Murray House/Richard Price House; Built in 1890.

820 West Osceola Avenue: William Lovell House; Built in 1904; Queen Anne in style.

821 West Osceola Avenue: F. V. Bartlett House/Thomas W. Forbes House; Built in 1896 (1890 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne in style.

822-824 West Osceola Avenue: Built in 1954.

825 West Osceola Avenue: Edmund S. Durment House; Built in 1898; Queen Anne in style.

826 West Osceola Avenue: Dr. Harold J. Rothschild House; Built in 1922; Prairie School in style.

829 West Osceola Avenue: Hector Anderson House; Built in 1912.

832 West Osceola Avenue: Henry S. Haas House; Built in 1890.

835 West Osceola Avenue: W. C. Henke House/Senator Nicholas D. Coleman House; Built in 1910; Queen Anne in style.

839 West Osceola Avenue: F. M. Finch House; Built in 1890; Queen Anne in style; Gilbert and Taylor, architects.

840 West Osceola Avenue: J. C. Michael House; Built in 1898; Queen Anne in style.

845 West Osceola Avenue: Nelia McDowell House; Built in 1908; Queen Anne in style.

846 West Osceola Avenue: Keith Fahnestock House; Built in 1913; Queen Anne in style; O. Holm, architect.

849 West Osceola Avenue: L. M. Powers House; Built in 1904; Queen Anne in style.

852 West Osceola Avenue: Charles Thomas Jenkins House; Built in 1898.

853 West Osceola Avenue: Louis J. Consigny House; Built in 1904; Queen Anne in style.

856 West Osceola Avenue: Carl E. Eklund House; Built in 1911; Queen Anne/Victorian in style.

859 West Osceola Avenue: George Mott and Edwin Mott House/Mott House; Built in 1882; Eclectic in style; Romer & Son, builder.

862 West Osceola Avenue: J. M. Dickson House/Charles Trudeau House; Built in 1896; Queen Anne/Georgian Revival in style; Charles Bassford, architect.

863 West Osceola Avenue: Charles Trudeau House; Built in 1912.

866 West Osceola Avenue: Charles Perry Howes House; Built in 1898.

869 West Osceola Avenue: Julian A. McCrossen House; Built in 1895; Georgian Revival in style; A. Mashek, architect.

870 West Osceola Avenue: F. C. Rogers House; Built in 1905; Georgian Revival in style; W. A. Keller, architect.

875 West Osceola Avenue: Foster Hannaford House; Built in 1907.

876 West Osceola Avenue: D. E. Young House; Built in 1890; Queen Anne in style.

880 West Osceola Avenue: John R. Barker House; Built in 1922; Bungalow in style; Buechner & Orth, architects.

881 West Osceola Avenue: Patrick J. Butler House; Built in 1916.

886 West Osceola Avenue: George J. Johnson House/John Nelson House; Built in 1883; Queen Anne in style; Nels I. Nelson, builder.

887 West Osceola Avenue: J. A. Willwerscheid House; Built in 1916.

890 West Osceola Avenue: Maurice L. Whitaker House; Built in 1923.

Go South: Turn south on Milton Street South and proceed two blocks back to St. Clair Avenue.

Cross West Linwood Avenue

Go East: Turn east on St. Clair Avenue and proceed one block to the Recreation Center parking lot.

Information on Street Names.

The following presents available information on the names of the streets along the hike, which was largely adapted from Empson, Donald, The Street Where You Live, St. Paul, MN, Witsend Press, 1975:

Crocus Place: The street was originally part of Dale Street and West Crocus Hill. Its name was changed in 1889. The name Crocus Hill was given to the street by John Taylor due to the early spring crocus flowers in the area.

Fairmount Avenue: The street was originally named Owasco Avenue, with the change in its name in 1883. The name was selected for its pleasing sound and its location on Crocus Hill. "Fair" is a common prefix and "mount" represents the height of the hill. In 1892, the name was spelled "Fairmont."

Goodrich Avenue: The avenue was named in 1849 for Aaron Goodrich (1807-1887), who was the founder of the Minnesota Republican Party and was the chief justice of the Minnesota Territorial Supreme Court in 1849. Goodrich was the mayor of Dover, Tennessee, in 1844, and was a Tennessee legislator in 1847. He initially applied for appointment as a collector of customs in Detroit, Michigan, but he was appointed instead as chief justice for the Minnesota Territory in 1849. He was removed from that office in 1851 for alleged misconduct. Goodrich authored A History of the Character and Achievements of the So-Called Christopher Columbus (New York, 1874). Goodrich was appointed secretary of the American legation in Brussels (1861-1869). Aaron Goodrich and his wife, Celinda Goodrich, were divorced in Michigan in 1870.

Grand Avenue: The avenue was named in 1871 by Englishman John Wann. The name reflects attributes of both the English definition of the word, meaning magnificent or sublime, and the Spanish definition of the word, meaning large or vast.

Grand Hill: The street was originally part of Grand Avenue, but was changed in 1970 when the southern portion of Oakland Avenue was changed to Grand Avenue at the request of the Grand Avenue Business Association, who wanted to connect Grand Avenue with West Seventh Street.

Heather Place: The street was platted in 1889 by James W. and Alma M. Heather, who were Ramsey County residents, but not St. Paul residents. The street was named Floral Street in 1900.

Kenwood Parkway: The street was originally known as Kenwood Terrace. It was renamed in 1888. It was named for the surrounding area, which was initially known as Kenwood Park, a name derived from Kenwood, Illinois, a Chicago suburb.

Lincoln Avenue: The avenue was named in 1871 for President Abraham Lincoln.

Linwood Avenue: The avenue was originally Evergreen Avenue. The street was renamed in 1895 for a basswood tree, the American Linden tree.

Osceola Avenue: The avenue is named for the famous warrior from the Seminole Indian tribe (1800?-1838). The avenue was named in 1871. It is one of a few streets in St. Paul that runs East and West as well as North and South.

St. Albans Street: The street was originally platted as Prairie Street in 1871. It was renamed in 1872. It is named for St. Albans in England, which is one of the oldest Roman towns in the country.

St. Clair Avenue: The avenue was named in 1851. It was named for Lake St. Clair, which is the connecting lake between Lake Huron and Lake Erie in Michigan. The street follows the course of the first East-West road in that section of the country, laid out by Reserve Township.

Victoria Street: The street was named by John Wann for Queen Victoria, a 19th Century British monarch.

Links:

St. Albans/Crocus Hill Hike Architectural Observations, Part 1

St. Albans/Crocus Hill Hike Architectural Observations, Part 2

St. Albans/Crocus Hill Hike Architectural Observations, Part 3

This webpage was last updated on December 7, 2010.