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Photograph of St. Anthony Park Branch Library
Photograph by McGhiever, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Anthony Park Branch Library

Built in 1916 (Beaux-Arts). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Anthony Park Branch Library is a branch of the Saint Paul Public Library in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. A Carnegie library built in 1917, it is on the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article St. Anthony Park Branch Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 134 National Register listings published here for Ramsey County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1916, Beaux-Arts.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · 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. 2245 W. Como Ave., St. Paul, 55108
  • When was it listed? February 1984
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Carnegie Libraries of St. Paul TR
  • City. St. Paul city
  • When was it built? 1916
  • Architectural style. Beaux-Arts
  • National Register reference number. 84001675 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

13,839 words

The chapter on St. Paul City in HIstory of Ramsey County and the CIty of St. Paul, published 1881 names St. Paul. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

May 18th, 1869. a formal call was extended to Rey. George A. Howard of Catskill, New York. which was declined by him after a visit to St. Paul. January 28th. 1869, the corner stone of the new chureh building was laid with appropriate ceremonies. and in December, the basement was ready for occupancy. the first public service held in it being the Christmas anniversary of the Sunday school. The next day, Sabbath, the first regular church service was held in the basement.

Passage source: HIstory of Ramsey County and the CIty of St. Paul, published 1881.

The necessity of choosing a pastor was apparent. and a call to the Rey. David R. Breed was | ordered. IIe soon after accepted, and in May, 1870, began his duties. In October, 1870, Mr. Breed was formally ordained to the ministry and installed as pastor of the church by the Presbytery of St. Paul.

Passage source: HIstory of Ramsey County and the CIty of St. Paul, published 1881.

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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Andrew R. McGill House0.1 miles1974
Norway Lutheran Church0.4 miles1975
United Church Seminary0.4 miles1985
Norway Lutheran Church0.4 miles1975
Heman Gibbs Farmstead0.9 miles1975
Henry Hale Memorial Library, Hamline Branch1.3 miles2023

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84001675 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ramsey CountyAll 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.