Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
“The Minnesota Building is a historic office building in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. The structure was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on June 10, 2009.”
Wikipedia article Minnesota Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 134 National Register listings published here for Ramsey County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
This property stands in St. Paul City. History of Ramsey County and the City of St. Paul, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, published 1881; HIstory of Ramsey County and the CIty of St. Paul, published 1881 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on St. Paul City - 13,839 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Minnesota Building between 1996 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.2 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | SAND DUNES |
| 21 October 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Minnesota Building: 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Twin City Brick Co. Clay Pit | Kaolin | Producer | Kaolinite | |
| Dakota County Clay Deposit | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Twin City Brick Co Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | St. Paul Municipal Grain Terminal | 0.1 miles | 2004 |
 | Alexander Ramsey House | 0.2 miles | 1969 |
 | Justus Ramsey Stone House | 0.3 miles | 1975 |
 | Irvine Park Historic District | 0.3 miles | 1973 |
 | St. Paul Public/James J. Hill Reference Library | 0.4 miles | 1975 |
 | Harriet Island Pavilion | 0.4 miles | 1992 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 09000408 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Ramsey County | All 134 listed properties in this county. |
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