The Romanesque Revival Row, St. Paul, Minnesota

We came across this amazing row of seven houses at the southwest corner of Laurel Avenue and Nina Street just north of Summit Avenue. A perfect example of how the Romanesque Revival can be applied to a rowhouse design, they are still in amazing condition, complete with red brick and pink granite detailing. Looking at…

Farrington Street and Laurel Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota

On the northwest corner of Summit Avenue and Farrington Street is this amazing Romanesque Revival mansion with some Renaissance Revival elements in the porches. They look like something I would see in Florence or other Italian cities. All of the mansions have their carriage houses on the back side of the property. Then we headed…

James J. Hill House, St. Paul, Minnesota

The James J. Hill House sits at the beginning of Summit Hill, which heads out west along the top of the bluffs above downtown St. Paul, and just beyond the Cathedral of St. Paul. It is lined with mansions from the Gilded Age, and its revival is one of the great success stories of historic…

State Capitol, St. Paul, Minnesota

The Minnesota State Capitol building is one of the purest expressions of the Beaux-Arts style in America. Designed by Minnesota native Cass Gilbert, who also designed St. Louis’s own Art Museum and Central Library, the State Capitol synthesizes the Italian Renaissance with ancient Roman models. By the way, the reason it’s spelled with an “O”…

Cathedral of St. Paul, St. Paul, Minnesota, Revisited

Starting today, I’m going to be going back to the vaults and publishing pictures from some of my travels in the Upper Midwest in 2018. I visited the Minneapolis/St. Paul area for a friend’s wedding, and contributor Jeff Phillips and I visited the Co-Cathedral of St. Paul while we had some time off before the…