Photograph of Superior Packing Company — Photograph by McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Superior Packing Company Plant

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

One of 134 National Register listings published here for Ramsey County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2103 Wabash Ave., Saint Paul, 55114
When was it listed? November 2018
Category. building
City. St. Paul city
National Register reference number. 100003083 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

13,839 words

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.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Superior Packing Company Plant: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin, Clay. 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
	Twin City Brick Co Pit	Clay	Past Producer
	Twin City Brick Co. Clay Pit	Kaolin	Producer	Kaolinite

Every working recorded in Ramsey County

Map coverage status

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.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
United States Bedding Company	0.1 miles	2020
Krank Manufacturing Company	0.6 miles	1983
Triune Masonic Temple	0.9 miles	1980
Charles Thompson Memorial Hall	1.0 miles	2011
Brooks, Edward, Sr. and Markell, House	1.0 miles	2000
University Hall-Old Main, Hamline University	1.3 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003083 in Record Group 79.
Ramsey County	All 134 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.