St. Paul Views from the Library of Congress Digital Collections

City of St. Paul, capital of Minnesota, 1853 (Library of Congress)

Saint Paul, Minnesota 1867 (Library of Congress)

View of St. Paul, 1874 (Library of Congress)

St. Paul, Minnesota 1883 : state capital and county seat of Ramsey Co. (Library of Congress)

At Ramsey/Summit intersection 1883

St. Paul, Minn. 1906 (Library of Congress)

G. M. Hopkins, Atlas of the City of St. Paul, 1884 (Library of Congress)

Plate 2: Summit Avenue/13th Street between Nelson and Jackson

Plate 5: North side of Summit between Dale and Nelson/Marshall

Plate 6: Small piece of Summit northeast of Nelson

Plate 22: South side of Summit between Dale and Arundel

Plate 21: Summit west of Dale

 

G. M. Hopkins, Atlas of the Environs of St. Paul including the whole of Ramsey County, Minnesota, 1886 (UMedia)

Plate 4: Far west end of Summit, Mississippi to Cretin

Plate 5 left/west: Summit from Mississippi Avenue (Cretin) to Snelling

Plate 5 right/east: Summit from Snelling to Lexington (city limits)

Plate 23 left/west: Summit from Lexington to just past Wabasha (downtown area has been demolished)

Plate 23 right/east: East end of Summit (now demolished)

D.L. Curtice, Curtice’s Standard Atlas of the City of St. Paul, 1887 (Composite maps at Borchert)

Link to clickable city map. Click on Map 4 (West end of Summit: Mississippi River to Fairview), Map 10 (Fairview to Lexington), Map 16 (Lexington to Western), Map 22 (Western to Summit Park/Marshall), and Map 21 (Lost east end of Summit from Marshall to Robert Street)

D.L. Curtice, Curtice’s Standard Atlas of the City of St. Paul, 1887 (Scanned pages from UMedia)

Map 4 Left and Right (West end of Summit: Mississippi River to Fairview)

Map 10 Left and Right (Fairview to Lexington)

Map 16 Left and Right (Lexington to Western)

Map 22 Left and Right (Western to Summit Park/Marshall)

Map 21 Left and Right (Lost east end of Summit from Marshall to Robert Street)

MHAPO: Minnesota Historical Aerial Photographs Online

Click in to your destination, and then click on the dots on the map, each of which represents an aerial photo. Different colors represent different surveys, dating back to the 1920s.

Aerial Photographic Atlas of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1925-27 (from Minnesota Digital Library, and also included above, at MHAPO )

Plate 5: East of Hamline

Plate 6: West of Hamline

Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America

Scan of the Saint Paul map