Now open to the public: This tour is part of the Society of Architectural Historians 2018 conference in St. Paul.   Located near one of Saint Paul’s original steamboat landings and centered around one of the city’s three original parks (1849), the small Irvine Park neighborhood includes some of Saint Paul’s oldest surviving houses. These dwellings represent most of the popular nineteenth-century residential styles, including a rare Gothic Revival house. Yet while the houses surrounding this little park seem to form an intact remnant of the city’s early days, a number of these buildings originated at other locations and were moved to the park in the 1970s, when nineteenth-century houses here and elsewhere were threatened by age, decay, and urban renewal. As a result, Irvine Park and its houses tell more than one story about architecture and urban development in St. Paul.