590 Summit Avenue: Kalman-Oppenheimer House/Greve Oppenheim and Lillian Oppenheim House:Built in 1892 (1913 according to Ramsey County property tax records and according to the Minnesota Historical Society;) Prairie School in style; Franklin Ellerbe (1870-1921) and Olin Round (ca. 1867-1927,) architects. The building is a two story, 4092 square foot, six bedroom, four bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Greve Oppenheim resided at this address from 1914 to 1916. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Greve Oppenheim resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Kalman resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Lyman S. Baird, treasurer of the Dampier-Baird Mortuary, and his wife, Pauline S. Baird, resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Dr. Edward P. Burch (1906- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1916 until 1921, who graduated from Princeton University in 1928, who graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1933, who was an ophthalmologist, was a Colonel in the U. S. Marine Corps during World War II, was an Assistant Clinical Professor of Ophthamology at the University of Minnesota Medical School, married Conradine Sanborn, and was a member of the Minnesota Club, the University Club, and the Somerset Club, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Greve Oppenheim was the youngest son of Ansel Oppenheim. Ansel Oppenheim (1847-1916,) the son of Isaac Oppenheim, a New York City, New York, merchant, was born in New York City, was the son of Isaac Oppenheim and Henrietta Oppenheim, was a graduate of the College of the City of New York, where he studied law, came to Minnesota in 1855, was admitted to the bar in Minnesota in 1878, initially was the law partner of John B. Brisbin, was a prominent lawyer, real estate investor, and financier, was associated with the firm of Oppenheim & Kalman, was the vice president of the Chicago Midwest Railroad, was a founder and president of the South St. Paul Union Stockyards, was a partner with Herman Greve in H. Greve & Company, a real estate venture, bought the St. Paul City RailRoad, had an interest in the Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City RailRoad, was an incorporator of the Chicago Transfer Railway Company, was vice president of the Chicago Great Western RailRoad in 1909, was a director of the Bank of Minnesota, was on the Minnesota Board of Equalization in 1880, was a St. Paul assemblyman in 1890, supported the Metropolis Opera House, lived in both St. Paul and New York City, was elected to a life membership in the Minnesota Historical Society in 1890, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a Mason, was a Democrat, was chairman of the Ramsey County Democratic Committee, was chairman of the Minnesota Democratic Committee, was a Minnesota committee member on the National Democratic Party Committee in 1884, was a director of the Metropolitan Opera Company, and died in New York. Ansel Oppenheim married Josephine "Josie" Greve in 1869 and the couple had three children, Herman Oppenheim, a lawyer and assistant corporation attorney of St. Paul, Lucius Julius Oppenheim, who initially was traveling freight agent of the Chicago Great Western RailRoad and subsequently was a New York Stock Exchange member, and Greve Oppenheim, who married Lillian King Oppenheim in 1911. Josephine Greve Oppenheim (1849-1915,) the daughter of Herman Greve and Marie Lindeman Greve, was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, married Ansel Oppenheim in 1869, was a published author under the pen name of John Emersie, and died in New York City, New York. She was the author of Allisto: A Romance (1884, under the name John Emersie,) Evelyn: A Story of the West and Far East (1909, again under the name of John Emersie,) and of a copyrighted play "Ruby (The) Ring" in 1915. Herman Greve was a native of the province of Westphalia, Germany, came to St. Paul in 1855, invested largely in real estate, then spent much of his life in farming in Vernon County, Wisconsin, and in 1880, moved to St. Paul again and engaged actively in business as one of the largest holders of real estate in that city. In 1879, Herman Greve, a partner with Ansel Oppenheim in H. Greve & Company, a real estate company located at 76 East Third Street, resided in Sparta, Wisconsin. Ansel Oppenheim's house, at 275 Summit Avenue, burned down from an overheated chimney in the winter of 1895. In 1911 or 1912, Greve Oppenheim married Lillian King of Minneapolis. Greve Oppenheim worked as a real estate investor. The house was built for $11,000. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Lucie F. Heath resided at the former nearby 593 Summit Avenue in 1900. Lucie J. Heath was the mother of Lucie F. Heath. Lucie J. Heath ( -1925) died in Ramsey County. The property was last sold in 1999 and the sale price was $610,000. The current owners of record of the property are Julia M. Ferguson and Richard J. Rinkoff. The current owners of record of the property are Julia M. Ferguson and Richard J. Rinkoff. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Sarah S. Price (1835-1924,) the widowed mother of W. W. Price, who was born in Louisiana to parents who were born in the United States and who died of angina pectoris, resided at the nearby former 591 Summit Avenue in 1924. The 1920 city directory indicates that Edward Fitzgerald, a broker who officed at the Guardian Life Building, resided at the former nearby 599 Summit Avenue.
596-604 Summit Avenue: Ron House Apartments/Summit Terrace; Built in 1888 (1890 according to Sandeen and Larson;) Richardsonian Romanesque/Victorian in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect. The rowhouses have an irregular brownstone front facade, with ashlar cut trim at the windows, and a symmetrical facade. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Around 1929, the individual units were subdivided into several apartments. 596 Summit Avenue is a two story (three story according to Ramsey County property tax records,) 3389 square foot, four bedroom, three bathroom, brick row house, with Unit #1 a one story, 1075 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom, condominium owned by the Florence L. Gifford Revocable Trust, located in Elkader, Iowa, and last sold in 2006 for $256,200, with Unit #2 a one story, 1050 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom, condominium owned by Robert R. Zamacona and last sold in 2006 for $226,900, and with Unit #3 a one story, 716 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom, condominium owned by Mary B. Clark and last sold in 2006 for $194,900. 598 Summit Avenue, built in 1900 according to Ramsey County property tax records, is a two story, 2319 square foot, four bedroom, three bathroom, brick row house, with Unit #1 a one story, 959 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom, condominium owned by Jennifer L. Pierce and last sold in 2005 for $225,230, with Unit #2 a one story, 980 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom, condominium owned by 596-604 Summit LLC, and with Unit #3 a one story, 739 square foot, three room, one bedroom, one bathroom, condominium owned by Bonita S. Avolesi and last sold in 2007 for $175,000. 600 Summit Avenue is a two story, 2960 square foot, four bedroom, three bathroom, brick row house, with Unit #1 a one story, 1053 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom, condominium owned by Barbara S. Walters and last sold in 2006 for $246,725, with Unit #2 a one story, 1004 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom, condominium owned by Maureen E. Bird and last sold in 2006 for $217,000, and with Unit #3 a one story, 655 square foot, three room, one bedroom, one bathroom, condominium owned by Michael Flodquist and last sold in 2006 for $195,000. 602 Summit Avenue is a two story, 3000 square foot, four bedroom, three bathroom, brick row house, with Unit #0 a one story, 1334 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom, condominium owned by 596-604 Summit LLC, with Unit #1 a one story, 997 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom, condominium owned by Lindsay K. Chamings and last sold in 2007 for $209,000, and with Unit #2 a one story, 982 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom, condominium owned by Benjamin James Ranson and last sold in 2006 for $241,250. 604 Summit Avenue is a two story, 3060 square foot, four bedroom, three bathroom, brick row house, with Unit #1 a one story, 1049 square foot, three room, one bedroom, one bathroom, condominium owned by Renee M. Des Jarlais and last sold in 2006 for $255,400, with Unit #2 a one story, 1111 square foot, three room, one bedroom, one bathroom, condominium owned by David L. Meisenburg and last sold in 2006 for $232,000, and with Unit #3 a one story, 781 square foot, three room, one bedroom, one bathroom, condominium owned by Jody L. Mikasen and was last sold in 2007 for $170,000. The row houses were built for $45,000. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Hiler H. Horton resided at 598 Summit Avenue in 1879. The 1893 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Charles Paul resided at 596 Summit Avenue, that Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Horton resided at 598 Summit Avenue, that Dr. and Mrs. I. L. Mahan and their daughter resided at 600 Summit Avenue, that Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Platt and Mrs. Priscilla Trumbull resided at 602 Summit Avenue, and that Mr. and Mrs. Howard C. Levis resided at 604 Summit Avenue. The 1899 Minnesota Legislative Manual indicates that Hiler Hosmer Horton resided at 598 Summit Avenue. The 1903 city directory indicates that Pauline Schitzrock was a domestic at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Caroline Livingston Phelps (1817-1903,) the wife of William Phelps, her second husband, who was born in the United States to parents who were born in England, who died of La Grippe, and who was buried in New York City, resided at 599 Summit Avenue in 1903. The 1906 Jubilee Manual of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church indicates that Mary M. (Mrs. E. G.) Rogers, a member of the church since 1885, and Julia McC. Rogers, a member of the church since 1893, both resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Caroline Cuyler Macomber (1823-1915,) the widowed mother of Mary Louise Abel, who was born in New York to parents who were born in the United States and who died of La Grippe, resided at this address in 1915. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that John H. Randall (1828-1916,) the widower father of Mrs. George P. Lyman, who was born in Massachusetts and who died of cerebral apoplexy, resided at this address in 1916. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mulhern and their daughters resided at 596 Summit Avenue, that Mrs. Hiler Horton, her daughter, and Hiler Horton all resided at 598 Summit Avenue, and that Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Lyon and their daughters resided at 600 Summit Avenue. Hiler Hosmer Horton (1893- ,) a First Lieutenant, was a World War I veteran who resided at 598 Summit Avenue in 1919. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier's Bonus Board (#13145) indicate that Hiler Hosmer Horton (1891- ,) a 1918 draftee and an Ordnance Sergeant in the First Company, Sixth P. O. D. Battery, First Regiment, who was born in St. Paul, had brown eyes, brown hair, and a fair complexion, was 5' 11" tall, was a businessman at induction, was a salesman employed by the Sifo Products Company after the completion of service, and was unmarried, resided with his mother, Jessie S. Horton, at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Agnes B. Budd, the widow of Roy Budd and the chief clerk for the Minnesota Secretary of State, resided at 600 Summit Avenue, that Frank J. O'Connor, an accoutant, boarded at 602 Summit Avenue, that Ruth Carmichael, a clerk employed by the Great Northern RailRoad, boarded at 600 Summit Avenue, and that Lambert Fairchild, a real estate agent located at the Exchange Bank Building, resided at 600 Summit Avenue. There is a Hiler H. Horton scholarship at the University of Michigan for worthy and needy students from the Kansas City, Missouri area. Charles Paul lived in the house at 245 Summit Avenue until 1885 and was a real estate agent in St. Paul in 1887. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that George Loomis Becker (1829-1903,) the husband of Susannah I. Becker, who was born in the United States to parents who were also born in the United States and who died of uraemia, resided at 601 Summit Avenue in 1903. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that William Thomas Kirke (1859-1910,) the husband of Nellie L. B. Kirke, who was born in England to parents who were also born in England and who died of apoplexy, resided at the corner of Summit Avenue and Dale Street in 1910. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. L. Lambert and George Lambert all resided at 598 Summit Avenue, that Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Linehan resided at 602 Summit Avenue, and that Rev. and Mrs. E. C. Prosser and Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Boyd resided at 604 Summit Avenue. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Mary M. Rogers, the widow of Edward G. Rogers, resided at 596 Summit Avenue, that Leon L. Lambert resided at 598 Summit Avenue, that Henry Ruehl and his wife, Margaret Ruehl, resided at 600 Summit Avenue, and that Louis Abrahamson, engaged in the clothing business at 57 West Third Street, and his wife, Ida Abrahamson, resided at 604 Summit Avenue. Hiler Hosmer Horton (1857-1906) was born in Washington County, Wisconsin, graduated from the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, public school system, graduated from Washington University and the Law Department of Washington University at St. Louis, Missouri, moved to St. Paul in 1878, was the managing clerk of the law firm of Davis, O'Brien & Wilson from 1878 until 1880, was a lawyer and a member of the law firm of Horton & Greene in Minneapolis in 1881, was a member of the law firm of Horton & Morrison from 1884 until 1889, was a member of the law firm of Horton & Denegre from 1892 until 1906, married Jessie Stillwell in Hannibal, Missouri, in 1886, was a Judge Advocate in the First Minnesota National Guard Regiment, was a member and president of the St. Paul Board of Park Commissioners, was a Republican, was a supporter of Major William McKinley for U. S. President in 1896, was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives representing Ramsey County (District 27) from 1893 until 1895, was a member of the Minnesota Senate representing Ramsey County (District 36) from 1899 until 1907, and died in Nassau, Bahama Islands. Horton Park in St. Paul, near Hamline University, was named in honor of Hiler Hosmer Horton. James Denis Denegre (1868-1927,) the son of William O. Denegre and Antoinette Morgan Denegre, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, was educated in the New Orleans, Louisiana, public Schools, graduated from Philips-Exeter Academy in 1885, graduated from Princeton University in 1889, moved to St. Paul in 1891, graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1891 with a bachelor of laws degree and in 1893 with a masters of law degree, was a clerk in the Quartermaster's Corp of the U. S. Army at St. Paul from 1889 until 1892, was a law clerk in Hiler Hosmer Horton's law office before becoming his partner, was the lead partner in the law firm of Denegre, McDermott, Stearns & Weeks, was a Republican, was a Mason, was a member of the Minnesota State Senate from 1911 until 1926, was the president of the National Order of Amateur Oarsmen in 1920, was a regional trustee for Princeton University, was the president of the Minnesota Association of Princeton Alumni, was a trustee of St. Mary's Hall in Faribault, Minnesota, was a member of the Ancient Landmark Lodge No. 5 of St. Paul, was a member of the Summit Chapter No. 45, was a Knight Templar in Paladin Commandery No. 21, was a Potentate of Osman Temple, was a member of the Red Cross of Constantine, was a 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Mason, was a member and Council Commander of the Woodmen of the World order, and was a Junior Warden of St. John's Episcopal Church. Charles Paul ( -1943) died in Ramsey County. The row houses were restored in 1984 by Paul Sween and Mark Sween. The row houses were previously owned by VF Associates LLC, located at 61 St. Albans Street South, and are currently owned by 596-604 Summit LLC, located in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Elizabeth Willis (1843-1917,) the widowed sister of Crawford Livingston, who was born in New York to parents who were born in the United States and who died of a cerebral hemorrhage, resided at the nearby former 599 Summit Avenue in 1917. The 1920 city directory indicates that John P. Curran, a manager employed by the S. S. Kresge Company, resided at the former nearby 601 Summit Avenue, that Charles B. Dunn, a department manager employed by Gordon & Ferguson, boarded at the former nearby 597 Summit Avenue, and that Robert R. Dunn, a partner with McNeil Stringer in Dunn & Stringer, real estate brokers, resided at the former nearby 597 Summit Avenue. The 1930 city directory indicates that Wescott W. Price, a real estate agent located at 360 Robert Street, and his wife, Hildegarde R. Price, resided at the former nearby 591 Summit Avenue, that Joseph J. McGibbon resided at the former nearby 593 Summit Avenue, that Frank G. McFadden, manager of the McFadden-Lambert Company, and his wife, Irene McFadden, resided at the former nearby 595 Summit Avenue, that the former nearby 597 and 599 Summit Avenue were vacant, and that Mrs. Margaret H. McFadden, the widow of Michael J. McFadden, resided at the former nearby 601 Summit Avenue. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
603 Summit Avenue: Built in 1987. The building is a two story, 1471 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The property was last sold in 1999 for $289,000. The current owners of record of the property are Barry L. Engen and Dianne L. Engen. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that William H. Randall and William H. Jarvis resided at the former nearby 604 Summit Avenue in 1854. William H. Randall (1806-1861) was born in Massachusetts, moved to New York, moved to Minnesota in 1846, and was a real estate investor, but was ruined by the Panic of 1857.
605 Summit Avenue: Built in 1987. The building is a two story, 1471 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The property was last sold in 1999 for $281,000. The current owners of record of the property are Michael H. Tonry and Penelope T. Tonry.
610 Summit Avenue: New York Apartments/610 Summit Avenue; Built in 1927; Classical Revival/Late Classical Revival in style; Ganley Brothers, architect. The structure is a multi-family apartment building which was last sold in 1997 with a sale price of $685,000. Before 1927, the lot had been vacant and was owned by Arthur W. Drewry in 1922. The building was built at a cost of $70,000 for the Atlas Housing Corporation of Minneapolis. This building and its twin at 616 Summit Avenue make an interesting comparison with apartment buildings built on Summit Avenue at the turn of the century. These two buildings rely on decorative brickwork to achieve texture and ornamentation, while earlier builders adorned their buildings with much more lavish applied decoration. The 1930 city directory indicates that Ray Okoneski, a salesman employed by the Burns Lumber Company, and his wife, Laura Okoneski, resided at apartment #B-1, that Gordon A. Richardson, a clerk employed by the Great Northern RailRoad, resided at apartment #B-2, that William R. Sassmann, a traveling salesman employed by the National Leather Company, and his wife, Josephine Sassman, resided at apartment #101, that William J./R. McGuinn, a hotel manager, and his wife, Marie McGuinn, resided at apartment #102, that Florian F. Chapek, manager of the W. T. Grant Company, and his wife, Bernice Chapek, resided at apartment #103, that Aage Nickelsen/Nickelson, a bookkeeper employed by the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, and his wife, Elsie A. Nickelsen, resided at apartment #104, that Mrs. Elizabeth Kearney, the widow of Thomas Kearney, and Elizabeth A. Kearney, a student, resided at apartment #105, that Walter L. Kelly, the manager of Buckie Printers Ink & Roller Company, resided at apartment #106, that Harry W. Starn, a trader employed by Kalman & Company, and his wife, Juanita Starn, resided at apartment #107, that Frank T. Denny, employed by the Northern Jobbing Company, and his wife, Maurine Denny, resided at apartment #108, that Harvey E. Hart, an advertising man, and his wife, Lottie S. Hart, resided at apartment #201, that Frank L. Bradford, superintendent for the American Can Company, and his wife, Dorothy Bradford, resided at apartment #202, that Richard A. Conely, a salesman for the Worthington Pump & Machinery Corporation, and his wife, Marjorie Conely, resided at apartment #203, that apartment #204 was vacant, that Alphonse J. Krumpelmann, a salesman employed by Seeler-Farnum, and Mrs. Mary Krumpelmann, the widow of August Krumpelmann, resided at apartment #205, that Harry J. Ruehl, the sales manager employed by Cleland Hughes Motor Company, and his wife, Marie Ruehl, resided at apartment #206, that Van B. Emerick resided at apartment #207, but moved to St. Louis, Missouri, later in 1930, that Martin F. Kirby, a barber with a shop at 517 Rice Street, and his wife, Mabel Kirby, resided at apartment #208, that Willard E. Beanblossom, a state rep, and his wife, Elizabeth Beanblossom, resided at apartment #301, that John V. Cowling, vice president of the Ramapo Ajax Corporation, and his wife, Edna H. Cowling, resided at apartment #302, that Mrs. Armelia J. Bibeau, the widow of Peter Bibeau and a chiropodist, resided at apartment #303, that Mrs. Beryl W. Carlson, the widow of K. Edward Carlson and a clerk employed by the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, resided at apartment #304, that Charles W. Moore, a warden employed by the State Game & Fish Department, and his wife, Mary L. Moore, resided at apartment #305, that Mrs. Ethel Ryan resided at apartment #306, that apartment #307 was vacant, and that Carl J. Grove, a dentist, and his wife, Louella Grove, resided at apartment #308. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. The 1991 St. Paul's on-the-Hill Episcopal Church directory indicates that Kirby Vann resided at this address. Arthur W. Drewry ( -1948) died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is CLZ Partnership, which is located at 8 Crocus Hill.
611 Summit Avenue: Cyrus C. DeCoster House; Built in 1887 (1910 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Elizabethan/Tudor Revival in style; J. M. Carlston, architect. The building is a two story, 3410 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, stone house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. C. De Coster and Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Rogers all resided at this address. Donald W. De Coster was a World War I veteran who resided at this address in 1919. The 1920 city directory indicates that Cyrus C. DeCoster resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Julia W. De Coster (1856-1924,) the wife of Cyrus C. De Coster, who was born in New York to parents born in the United States and who died of myocarditis, resided at this address in 1924. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. C. De Coster resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Cyrus C. De Coster resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Cyrus C. De Coster, Jr. (1914- ,) who was born in Leesburg, Virginia, who attended the school from 1928 until 1933, who graduated from Harvard University in 1937, who attended the Sorbonne in Paris, France, from 1937 until 1938, resided in Rosemount, Minnesota. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory additionally indicates that Cyrus C. DeCoster, Jr., graduated with a Naster's degree from the University of Chicago in 1940, served as an Lieutenant in the U. S. Navy during World War II, was a member of the board of directors of the Foriegn Policy Association of St. Paul, married Barbara Krause in 1948, was pursuing his Ph. D. in 1950, was an Assistant Professor of Romance Languages at Carlton Collgee, and resided in Northfield, Minnesota. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Cyrus C. DeCoster, a member of the Class of 1933, resided at Lawrence, Kansas. Cyrus Cole DeCoster (1846- ) was a member of the DeCoster & Clark Company. Donald W. De Coster ( -1939) died in Ramsey County and Cyrus Cole DeCoster ( -1948) died in Dakota County, Minnesota. The current owners of record of the property are the trustees for Marsha C. Gorman and Mark B. Gorman. Marsha Gorman, a homemaker, contributed to the Barack Obama for President campaign in 2007-2008. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Fox resided at the former nearby 612 Summit Avenue.
615 Summit Avenue: Built in 1883; Tudor Villa in style. The building is a two story, 2131 square foot, four bedroom, two bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 1993 for $136,000. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The house was moved to the site from 623 Wabasha Street in 1948 according to the Minnesota Historical Society. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Martin J. McDonough resided at this address from 1952. The current owners of record of the property are Ann E. Kraker and Michael D. Kraker.
616 Summit Avenue: Minnesota Apartments; Built in 1928. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. Unit B1 is a 385 square foot, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit B2 is a 385 square foot, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit B3 is a 345 square foot, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit B4 is a 345 square foot, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 101 is a 510 square foot, one bedroom, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 102 is a 510 square foot, one bedroom, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 103 is a 345 square foot, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 104 is a 345 square foot, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 105 is a 345 square foot, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 106 is a 345 square foot, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 107 is a 510 square foot, one bedroom, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 108 is a 510 square foot, one bedroom, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 201 is a 510 square foot, one bedroom, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 202 is a 510 square foot, one bedroom, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 203 is a 345 square foot, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 204 is a 345 square foot, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 205 is a 345 square foot, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 206 is a 345 square foot, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 207 is a 510 square foot, one bedroom, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 208 is a 510 square foot, one bedroom, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 301 is a 510 square foot, one bedroom, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 302 is a 510 square foot, one bedroom, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 303 is a 345 square foot, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 304 is a 345 square foot, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 305 is a 345 square foot, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 307 is a 510 square foot, one bedroom, one bathroom, brick condominium. Unit 308 is a 510 square foot, one bedroom, one bathroom, brick condominium. Wagner & Lang Construction is located at Unit B3. James Ramsay, a freelance photographer, resides at Unit B4. Anderson Architecture Inc., founded by Mark Carsten Anderson AIA, and specializing in designing liturgical space, is located at Unit 104. Annette Marie Ray resided at Unit #302 in 2003. Nathan Berndt, a freelance photographer, resides at Unit #308 currently. The notorious gangster John Dillinger rented one of the front one-bedroom apartment in the 1920's. The 1930 city directory indicates that Casper O. Hoverson, the caretaker, his wife, Tillie Hoverson, and Lynn Hoverson, a watchman employed by Oxidite Battery Corporation, resided at apartment B-1, that Ernest W. Winter, a clerk employed by the St. Paul Foundry Company, and his wife, Evelyn Winter, resided at apartment B-2, that Peter E. Hess, the secretary-treasurer of Kalman & Company, and his wife, Nora Hess, resided at apartment #101, that apartment #102 was vacant, that James L. Dow/Daw, the treasurer of the Louis F. Dow Company, engaged in advertising novelties business, resided at apartment #103, that Floyd H. Davison, a salesman, and his wife, Margaret Davison, resided at apartment #104, that Elmer N. Nelson resided at apartment #105, that Lillian C. Raasig, a stenographer employed by the State Game & Fish Department, resided at apartment #106, that Mrs. Margaret Lantry, the widow of Daniel F. Lantry, resided at apartment #107, that apartment #108 was vacant, that Fred E. Berry, president of the F. E. Berry Cattle Company, and his wife, Jessie Berry, resided at apartment #201, that Robert Everett Berryman, the classified manager at the St. Paul Daily News, and his wife, Agnes E. Berryman, resided at apartment #202, that apartment #203 was vacant, that John O. Briggs, manager of the Skelly Oil Company, and his wife, May Briggs, resided at apartment #204, that Mrs. Marie M. Fitzsimmons, the widow of Charles Fitzsimmons, and Ann V. Fitzsimmons, a teacher at the Jefferson School, resided at apartment #205, that apartment #206 was vacant, that James H. Tyrrell, a druggist with a shop located in the Endicott Building, resided at apartment #207, that Walter J. Hunt, an assistant department director employed by the Northern Pacific RailRoad, and his wife, Marcella Hunt, resided at apartment #208, that William W. Walsh, the secretary-treasurer of the Walsh Investment Company, and his wife, Henrietta Walsh, resided at apartment #301, that Alan R. McGinnis, the president of Harman-McGinnis Inc., and his wife, Florence McGinnis, resided at apartment #302, that Owen A. Garretson, a salesman employed by the Webb Publishing Company, and his wife, Marjorie Garretson, the assistant manager of the Renick Music Company, resided at apartment #303, that Mrs. Frances Abell, the widow of Ashley J. Abell and a saleswoman employed by Pierce Millinery, resided at apartment #304, that Walter M. Feist, the manager of the Tower Theatre, and his wife, Anna Feist, resided at apartment #305, that John J. Davis, secretary to Mayor Gerhard J. Bundlie, and his wife, Catherine Davis, resided at apartment #306, that Sigurd B. Qvale, the superintendent of permits employed by the Bureau of Industrial Alcohol of the U. S. Treasury Department, and his wife, Mayme Qvale, resided at apartment #307, and that Gilbert S. Lobstein, a department manager employed by the Webb Publishing Company, resided at apartment #308. Ernest W. Winter (1905-1999) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Bauer, and died in Beltrami County, Minnesota. Peter E. Hess ( -1947) died in Ramsey County. Margaret E. Lantry (1875-1963) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Mackensie, and died in Ramsey County. Robert Berryman (1880-1956) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Scaife, and died in Hennepin County. James H. Tyrrell ( -1936) died in Ramsey County. Walter Jason Hunt (1900-1978) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Servis, and died in Ramsey County. A property code enforcement action was taken by the City of St. Paul against this address in 2000.
623 Summit Avenue: William West/Louisa McQuillan House; Built in 1896 (1896 according to Sandeen and the Minnesota Historical Society and 1894 according to Ramsey County property tax records); Jacobethan/Victorian/late Gothic Revival in style. The building is a two story, 4433 square foot, six bedroom, four bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2000 for $600,000. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Louisa McQuillan had the house built and resided at this address from 1897 to 1899. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Allen McQuillan resided at this address from 1897 to 1899. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cooper and their daughters resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that James D. Denegre, a lawyer and a partner with Thomas McDermott and Harry S. Stearns in the law firm Denegre McDermott & Stearns, located at the Commerce Building, resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Elizabeth S. Simpson (1835-1923,) the widowed mother of Mrs. James D. Denegre, who was born in Wisconsin to parents born in the United States and who died of chronic bronchitis, resided at this address in 1923. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Denegre resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that James D. Denegre (1868-1926,) the husband of Marion S. Denegre, who was born in Louisiana to parents born in the United States and who died of a pulmonary embolism, resided at this address in 1926. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Marion S. Denegre, the widow of James D. Denegre, resided at this address. James Denis Denegre (1868-1926) was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1885, graduated from Princeton University in 1889, graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1891, was a clerk in the law office of State Senator Hiler H. Horton, settled in St. Paul in 1891 and practiced law there, was a member of the Denegre, McDermot, Stearns & Weeks Law Firm, then the Denegre, McDermot & Stearns Law Firm, and then the Denegre & McDermot Law Firm, was an Episcopalian, was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church, was a regional trustee for Princeton University, was the president of the Minnesota Association of Princeton Alumni, was a trustee of St. Mary's Hall in Faribault, Minnesota, was a Mason, was a member of the Ancient Landmark Lodge No. 5 of St. Paul, and Summit Chapter No. 45, was a Knight Templar in Paladin Commandery No. 21, was a Potentate of Osman Temple, was a member of the Red Cross of Constantine and a 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Mason, was a member and Council Commander of the Woodmen of the World Order, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a member of the St. Paul Athletic Club, was a member of the St. Paul Association, was a member of the American Bar Association, was a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association, was a member of the Ramsey County Bar Association, was a member of the Minnesota Boat Club, was president of the National Amateur Rowing Association, was a Republican, was a member of the Minnesota State Senate representing Ramsey County (District 36) from 1911 until 1914 and representing Ramsey County (District 40) from 1915 until 1926, and died in Ramsey County. Louisa McQuillan was the grandmother of F. Scott (Francis Scott Key) Fitzgerald and the widow of wholesale grocer P. F. (Philip Francis) McQuillan. P. F. McQuillan (1834-1887) was born in Ireland, moved to the United States in 1842, moved to Minnesota in 1857, and went into the grocery business. McQuillan began as a bookkeeper in a wholesale grocery business. In two years, he opened up his own wholesale firm, first as P. F. McQuillan & Company and then McQuillan, Beaupre & Company, and married his Galena, Illinois, sweetheart, Louisa Allen. They raised eight children, Mary "Mollie" McQuillan (1860-1936,) Allen McQuillan (1863-1940,) Agnes Frances McQuillan (1865-1866,) Annabell McQuillan (1866-1963,) Clara McQuillan (1868-1911,) Josephine McQuillan (1871-1872,) John F. McQuillan (1872-1874,) and Philip Francis McQuillan, Jr. (1877-1938.) In 20 years, McQuillan built up an enormously successful wholesale business literally from nothing. McQuillan was a totally self-made man and his business grew to be the largest grocery business in St. Paul. He became ill and died at an early age. He was well respected for his honesty and integrity, and was a strong supporter of the Catholic church. Philip McQuillan's wife, Louisa McQuillan, lived for 36 years after his death. Mrs. McQuillan also maintained a winter home in Washington D.C., and traveled regularly to Europe. Louisa McQuillan was the daughter of Joseph Allen and Catherine (Mahoney) Allen of Galena. Her parents moved to St. Paul in 1866. Joseph Allen (1813-1898) was born in Queens County, Ireland, emigrated to the United States with his family as an infant, moved to St. Paul in 1866, was a building contractor, and died in St. Paul. Philip McQuillan and Louisa McQuillan are buried in Calvary Cemetery in St. Paul. In 1879, Louisa McQuillan, the widow of Philip F. McQuillan, resided at 249 East Tenth Street. F. Scott Fitzgerald's mother, Mollie McQuillan Fitzgerald, married Edward Fitzgerald in 1890 in Washington, D.C. After their honeymoon in Europe, Edward Fitzgerald and Mollie Fitzgerald came back to St. Paul, where Edward Fitzgerald initially ran a furniture store. Between 1898 and 1908, the family lived in New York State before they moved back to St. Paul and lived comfortably on Mollie Fitzgerald's inheritance. When they first came back to St. Paul, they lived with Mollie Fitzgerald's brother, Philip McQuillan, at 514 Holly Avenue, and Edward Fitzgerald went to work as a broker at "the brokerage house." In 1911, they moved to 499 Holly Avenue, and in 1915, they moved to 593 Summit Avenue. Finally, in 1919, they moved to 599 Summit Avenue. Later, they moved to Washington, D.C., where both Mollie Fitzgerald and Edward Fitzgerald died. The Fitzgeralds had five children, of whom only two survived infancy. As a small child, F. Scott Fitzgerald often visited his grandmother in this house. Thomas Cooper resided in the house in 1914. The current owners of record of the property are Jane A. Graupman and Thomas E. Raya. Paul R. Jacobson, a self-employed musician who resides at this address, was a contributor to the John Kerry for President campaign in 2004.
624 Summit Avenue: C. H. Schlick House/Charles H. Schliek and Elizabeth Schliek House; Built in 1890 (around 1899 according to Ramsey County property tax records and 1899 according to the Minnesota Historical Society;) Queen Anne in style. The structure is now a multi-family apartment house, which was last sold in 1997 and the sale price was $325,000. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1885 and 1887 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Garland, their daughter, R. D. Garland, and W. H. Garland, Jr., resided at this address. The 1889 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Garland, their daughter, R. D. Garland, W. H. Garland, Jr., and Samuel Daggett resided at this address. The 1891 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Garland, their daughter, and R. D. Garland resided at this address. The 1892 city directory indicates that William H. Garland, a trunk manufacturer, resided at this address and that William H. Garland, Jr., and Robert D. Garland boarded at this address. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Charles H. Schliek resided at this address from 1899 to 1946. The 1902 Central Presbyterian Church directory indicates that Miss Lillian Grotjan resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Schliek resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. Schliek resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Charles H. Schliek, a creditman employed by the L. D. Coddon & Brothers, and his wife, Elizabeth Schliek, Benjamin F. Powers, president of Powers Motor Car Company, Inc., his wife, Edna S. Powers, secretary-treasurer of Powers Motor Car Company, Inc., and Charles T. Powers, vice president of Powers Motor Car Company, Inc., resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Benjamin F. Powers (1916- ,) who attended the school from 1929 until 1930, and Charles T. Powers (1909- ,) who attended the school from 1921 until 1926, both resided at this address. In 1972-1973, Beverly McNeilly (#4,) a student at Macalester College, resided at this address. Charles Schliek was a partner in Schliek & Company, a retail shoe business that was established by his father, Henry A. Schliek. William H. Garland (1825-1905) was born in Minnesota and died in Ramsey County. Charles Henry Schliek ( -1943) died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the rental property is Gwynne L. Evans, who resides at 1405 Summit Avenue. Barbara Solberg, a college student at Macalester College who resides at this address, was a contributor to the Howard Dean for President campaign in 2004. The 1885 and 1887 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. William West and F. C. West all resided at the former nearby 625 Summit Avenue.
629 Summit Avenue: William T. Kirke and Nellie Kirke House, Built in 1905 (1896 according to Sandeen and Larson and to the Minnesota Historical Society and 1890 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Elizabethan/Mildly Queen Anne in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect. The building is a two story, 5054 square foot, five bedroom, four bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. William T. Kirke worked for the St. Paul Apartment House Company. The house was built for $7,000 (Sandeen and Larson). Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that William T. Kirke resided at this address from 1897 to 1910. The 1908 city directory indicates that William T. Kirke was engaged in the surety bond, burglary insurance, and liability insurance business at the Pioneer Press Building and resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Nellie L. B. Kirke resided at this address in 1910. In 1914, H. P. Clark resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Burchard resided at this address. In 1918, John E. Burchard, the father of World War I veteran Henry McNiel Burchard, resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Alfred Burchtedt was a janitor and boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Winter resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Everett P. Winter, who officed at the Pioneer Building, his wife, Marion Winter, and Everett P. Winter resided at this address. In 1934, Everett P. Winter, Marion Kirke Winter, and Dorothy Winter resided at this address. The Winter family were members of the Minikahda Country Club, the Summit Club, and the Women's City Club of St. Paul in 1934. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Everett P. Winter, who attended the school from 1902 until 1903 and who served as a Captain in the 333rd Field Artillery in the American Expeditionary Force during World War I, resided at this address. Nellie L. Kirke ( -1938) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Susan M. Elfstrom and Richard A. Nordquist III. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
635 Summit Avenue: Robert C. Wright House; Built in 1926. The building is a two story, 3110 square foot, three bedroom, four bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Robert C. Wight resided at this address from 1926 to 1946. The 1930 city directory indicates that Robert C. Wight, proprietor of the Wight Insurance Agency, his wife, Grace Wight, Adelaide McConville, and James H. McConville, a manufacturers agent located at the Pioneer building, all resided at this address. In 1934, Robert C. Wight and Grace Griffith Wight resided at this address and were members of the St. Paul Athletic Club. Robert C. Wight ( -1947) died in Ramsey County. Grace L. Wight ( -1933) died in Ramsey County. The house cost $13,000 to build. The last sale of the property occurred in 2005 and the sale price was $629,000. The previous owner of record of the property was Patrick J. Roedler and the current owner of record of the property is Mya Honeywell. Patrick J. Roedler was a contributor to the John Kerry for President campaign in 2004. Mya Honeywell serves on the Board of Directors of and is the chair of the Events Committee of the St. Paul Area Association of Realtors. Mya Honeywell and her sister, Cedar Honeywell, are real estate agents for Coldwell Banker Burnet Real Estate - Crocus Hill office. Mya Honeywell graduated from Winona Senior High School in Winona, Minnesota, and graduated with honors from St Cloud State University, earning a double major in Biology and Biomedical Science, initially was pharmaceutical sales representative, and in 2002, became a real estate agent specializing in the urban housing market. Mya Honeywell was a contributor to the Norm Coleman for Senate campaign in 2006.
638 Summit Avenue: Augustus B. Schliek House; Built in 1894; Georgian Revival/Queen Anne/Colonial Revival in style. The building is a two story, 5837 square foot, four bedroom, four bathroom, two half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. In 1893, the city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Schliek resided at this address. The 1903 city directory indicates that Emily Newman was a domestic at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. R Shepley resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Floyd H. Evans, associated with the Evans Investment Company, and his wife, Greta S. Evans, resided at this address. In 1934, F. H. Evans, Margaret Spinning Evans, Dorothy Evans, and Williams Evans resided at this address. The house was converted to a triplex in 1975 by John Mannillo and Lee Mannillo. Van Nelson and Linda Nelson owned the house in 1984. Augustus B. Schliek was part of Schliek & Co., a boot and shoe business. Martin H. Schliek also lived at this address. John Mannillo, a Long Island, New York, native who moved to St. Paul in 1974, was the president of St. Paul Building Owners & Managers Association in the early 1980's, and launched the Downtown Building Owners Association in 2002. Mannillo was a longtime critic of former St. Paul mayor, now U. S. Senator, Norm Coleman, who ran for mayor against him in 1994 and worked in the St. Paul Mayor Jim Scheibel administration. Mannillo owns the five-story Gilbert Building, located at 413 Wacouta Street. Lesley James Lehr, a lawyer, officed at this address in 2002 and represented WorldCom, Inc., before the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission. The last sale of the property occurred in 2004 and the sale price was $1,250,000. The previous owners of record of the property were Lesley J. Lehr and Steven R. Lehr and the current owners of record of the property are Bruce Leasure and Lauren Hill. Bruce Leasure is a member of the Twin Cities Race Walkers club and is the chairman of Racewalk-MN, which promotes race walking for the state branch of USA Track and Field. Lauren Hill is also a race walker and is an AmSAT Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique to reduce pain and stress.
641 Summit Avenue: Built in 1983. The building is a two story, 2378 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. The current owners of record of the property are Joseph R. Kingman III and Kathleen P. Kingman. Joseph R. Kingman, a retiree, and Kathleen Kingman, a retiree, were contributors to the John Kerry for President campaign in 2004.
643 Summit Avenue: Built in 1983. The building is a two story, 2378 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2004 for $715,000. The current owner of record is Jerilyn L. Seely. David R. Anderson, an executive with Staywell Health Management who resides at this address, was a contributor to the John Kerry for President campaign in 2004.
644 Summit Avenue: C.A. Dibble House/Charles A. Dibble House; Built in 1880 (1889 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Victorian in style; Havelock E. Hand, architect. The structure is now a multi-family apartment building with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Charles A. Dibble maintained an office at 502 Pioneer Building. The house was built for $12,000. The 1891 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dibble resided at this address. The 1893 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Clark and Mrs. Sarah L. Stinson resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Franklin Treat Parlin (1854-1909,) the husband of Harriet Parlin, who was born in the United States to parents also born in the United States and who died of chronic myocarditis, resided at this address in 1909. G. T. Schurmeier resided at this address in 1914. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mrs. William Lindeke and Mrs. G. T. Schurmeier both resided at this address. World War I veteran Gust R. Schurmeier resided at this address in 1919. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier's Bonus Board (#7971) indicate that Gustave Benjamin Schurmeier (1896- ,) a 1918 enlistee and a Private First Class in the U. S. Army Air Service, unassigned, who was born in St. Paul, had grey eyes, light brown hair, and a ruddy complexion, was 5' 10" tall, enlisted in the American Field Service in 1917, was attached to the French Army, was in T. M. U. 133, served in region de l'Aine, was discharged from the French Army in Paris later in 1917, served at the School of Military Aeronautics, Berkeley, California, in 1918, enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in British Columbia in 1918, was discharged from the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1919, was a student after the completion of service, and was unmarried, resided with his mother, Mrs. G. T. Schurmeier, at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Jule Hannaford, Jr., resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Jule M. Hannaford, Jr., the secretary of Gordon & Ferguson Inc., and his wife, Caroline Hannaford, resided at this address. In 1934, Jule M. Hannaford, Jr., Caroline Schurmeier Hannaford, Jule M. Hannaford III, John Hannaford, and Gertrude Hannaford resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Jule M. Hannaford III (1912- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1923 until 1930, who graduated from Yale University in 1935, who graduated from the Yale University Law School in 1938, served as the General Counsel of the Illinois Office of the Office of Price Administration during World War II, who was the Assistant General Counsel to the Joint Congressional Committee to Investigate the Pearl Harbor Attack, who was chairman of the St. Paul Foreign Policy Association, who was a director of the World Affairs Center of the Northwest, who was a member of the University Club, who was a member of the White Bear Yacht Club, and who was a partner in the law firm Dorsey, Colman, Barker, Scott & Barber, resided at Manitou Island, White Bear, Minnesota. William Lindeke was a Ramsey County commissioner in 1879. The Hannaford family were members of the White Bear Yacht Club, the St. Paul Athletic Club, the Minikahda Country Club, and the Womens Club of St. Paul in 1934. Jule M. Hannaford, Jr., was a graduate of Yale University. Franklin Treat Parlin (1864- ) was born in Monroe, Wisconsin, graduated from Monroe High School in 1879, was in business in Wisconsin until 1884, joined the Yale University Class, Sheffield Scientific School, of 1887, engaged in business after his Freshman year, joined the Yale University Class of 1888 at the beginning of its Junior year, moved to St. Paul and engaged in the dry goods business after graduation in 1888, farmed in North Dakota from 1889 to 1892, traveled to Alaska in 1891, then engaged in the life insurance business, first in Fargo, North Dakota, from 1892 to 1897, unsuccessfully ran for North Dakota Insurance Commissioner on the "Fusion" ticket in 1896, married Harriet Bolinger in San Francisco, California in 1897, and then engaged in the life insurance business in St. Paul was the manager of a branch office of the Germania Life Insurance Company. Jule Murat Hannaford, Jr., (1850-1934) was born at Claremont, New Hampshire, was chief clerk in the general freight office of the Vermont Central RailRoad, became chief clerk in the general freight office of the Northern Pacific RailRoad in 1872, was promoted to assistant general freight and passenger agent in 1879 of the Northern Pacific RailRoad, was general freight agent of the Eastern Division 1881-1883, was assistant superintendent of freight traffic of the Northern Pacific RailRoad 1883-1884, and was the general freight agent and general traffic manager of the Northern Pacific RailRoad 1884-1899. From 1890 to 1893, Jule M. Hannaford, Jr., was also general traffic manager of the Wisconsin Central line, was elected third vice-president of the Northern Pacific RailRoad in 1899, and second vice-president of the Northern Pacific RailRoad in 1902, was also vice-president and general superintendent of the Northern Pacific Express Company, was president of the Northern Pacific Express Company company in 1906, and became president of the Northern Pacific RailRoad to succeed Howard Elliott in 1912. Jule M. Hannaford III was an Assistant Counsel for the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1946. Jule M. Hannaford III won the Class E trophy of the Inland Yachting Association in 1936 and 1940, in Lady Luck II. The Jule M. Hannaford III Memorial Trophy was presented to the Inland Yachting Association in 1982 by Mrs. Jule M. Hannaford III, her family, and friends as a trophy to be awarded annually to the winner of the Inland Yachting Association Class E Invitational Regatta. The Dibble burial plot at Oakland Cemetery include Charles A. Dibble (1843-1932,) Julia Barry Dibble (1850-1926,) Walter Gordon Dibble (1883-1905,) and Edmund Barry Dibble (1887-1908.) Matthew J. Clark (1888-1969) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Culhane, and died in Ramsey County. Jule M. Hannaford ( -1934) and Jule Murat Hannaford ( -1952) both died in Ramsey County. Jule M. Hannaford (1912-1981) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Schurmeier, and died in Washington County, Minnesota. The current owners of record of the property are Nancy F. Lunning and Robert B. Lunning. [See note on Charles A. Dibble for 1317-1319 Summit Avenue.]
649 Summit Avenue: K. C. Manson House/DuVander House/Luman H. Gilbert House; Built in 1874 (1874 according to the Minnesota Historical Society, 1897 according to the National Register of Historic Places, and 1878 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) French Second Empire in style. The building is a two story, 3672 square foot, nine bedroom, five bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 1999 for $550,250. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. It has a Mansard roof with many dormers, brackets at the eaves, paired entry doors, and cresting along the roof line. The first floor porch, removed prior to 1973, has been restored in a style very similar to the original porch. The house was built for A. G. Manson. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Albert G. Manson resided at this address from 1875 to 1878. K. C. Manson was a real estate investor or agent, working at Bridge Square in St. Paul. The 1885 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Gilbert, their daughter, and C. A. Gilbert resided at this address. The 1887 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hoxsie and Mrs. Thomas Hoxsie resided at this address. The 1889 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hoxsie and Mrs. Theresa Hoxsie resided at this address. The 1891 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hoxsie resided at this address. In 1885, L. H. Gilbert lived at this address and, in 1890, J. B. Hoxsie resided at this address. The 1893 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hoxsie resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Sheehan and their daughter resided at this address. In 1919, the house was purchased by John W. Kessler and Thomas S. Maguire, who planned to establish a funeral home in the house. Because of the neighborhood protest, the St. Paul city council passed a resolution later in 1919 prohibiting the location of funeral homes in residential neighborhoods. The zoning resolution was challenged in court and the case was appealed all the way up to the Minnesota Supreme Court, which upheld the lower court rulings supporting the resolution. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that the Kessler & Maguire Funeral Home was located at this address. The house is said to be a rarity on Summit Avenue, both because of its style and because it predates most of the houses on the Avenue. It is reputed to be the only French Second Empire-style house remaining of the four originally built between 1867 and 1883 on Summit Avenue. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kessler and T. S. Maguire all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that the Institute of Musical Art was located at this address and that Amendola Francesco resided at this address. John W. "Jack" Kessler's wife was Helen T. "Nellie" O'Brien Kessler, who was a sister of Dewey Joseph O'Brien, the owner and operator of the O'Brien Funeral Home on University Avenue until his death in 1962. In 1877, A. G. Manson was a partner with A. M. Radcliff and A. D. Condit in operating a commercial concern in the McClung Block. A. G. Manson represented St. Paul's Fourth Ward of the 1879 Board of Education. John B. Hoxsie (1839-1903) was born in Marengo, Michigan, moved to St. Paul in 1871, engaged in the wholesale fruit and produce business, and died in St. Paul. In 1879, John B. Hoxsie, a partner with Jehiel W. Jaggar in Hoxsie & Jaggar, commission merchants located at 14 Jackson Street, resided at 8 Pleasant Avenue. In 1901, John B. Hoxsie had a fruit and produce business located at 103 East Third Street. Albert Manson (1836-1878) was born in Limington, York County, Maine, the son of of George Manson (1806-1887) and Emeline Harding Meeds Manson (1809-1891,) and died in St Paul. John Walter Kessler (1888-1969) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Schnieder, and died in Ramsey County. Thomas S. Maguire (1889-1962) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Burns, and died in Ramsey County. Helen T. Kessler (1889-1965) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Hickey, and died in Ramsey County. Dewey Joseph O'Brien (1898-1962) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Hickey, and died in Ramsey County. The last sale of the property was in 2004 and the sale price was $1,125,000. The previous owner of record of the property was Susan Bartlett/Barlett Foote and the current owners of record of the property are Jessica L. Stoltenberg and Phillip H. Stoltenberg. In 2003, Susan Foote was a contributor to the Randy Kelly for Mayor campaign and resided at this address. Susan Bartlett Foote received a B.A. in American & Latin American History from Case Western Reserve University in 1968, a M.A.in American & Latin American History from Case Western Reserve University in 1970, and a J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley in 1977, is a Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health of the University of Minnesota, is Director of the Medical Technology Leadership Forum at the School of Public Health, and serves on the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. Susan Barlett Foote was a member of the St. Paul Heritage Preservation Commission in 2007. Susan Barlett Foote was the author of the article "Loops and Loopholes: Hazardous Device Regulation Under the 1976 Medical Device Amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act" in Ecology Law Quarterly in 1978. Susan Bartlett Foote is a member of the Board of Directors of Haemonetics and left the board of directors of Urologix, Inc., in 2005. Phillip H. Stoltenberg completed his undergraduate and medical school degrees at the University of Minnesota in 1976, performed both his internship and residency at the University of Minnesota Hospitals assigned as Chief Resident in the Department of Internal Medicine, completed his fellowship in gastroenterology in 1982, was appointed as Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, at the University of Minnesota Medical School, then was Assistant Professor of Medicine, Senior Staff Physicians and Consultant, and Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine at the Texas A & M University Health Science Center, moved to Hutchinson, Minnesota, in 1994, in its Department of Medicine, and has practiced medicine in the St. Paul area since 1995, currently at Minnesota Gastroenterology P.A. Jessica Stoltenberg is the spokesperson for Medtronic Inc. of Fridley, Minnesota.
650 Summit Avenue: Nienaber House, Built in 1892 (1892 according to Sandeen and to the Minnesota Historical Society and 1900 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival/Colonial Revival in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect. The building is a two story, 3726 square foot, ten room, six bedroom, three bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2001 for $549,900. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The Minnesota Historical Society indicates the the house was built by General C. C. Andrews. The 1893 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Kirk, Mrs. M. D. Kirk, and Robert H. Kirk resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that William D. Kirk (1834-1906,) the husband of Flora H. Kirk, who was born in the United States to parents also born in the United States and who died of cerebral pneumonia, resided at this address in 1906. Charles Patterson resided at this address in 1910 and in 1914 and the 1910 city directory indicates that Charles Patterson was the president and treasurer of the Patterson Street Lighting Company. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Griggs resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Wright resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Cyrus C. De Coster, Jr., a bondsman, and his wife, Jeanne De Coster, resided at this address. In 1934, Cyrus Cole De Coster, Sr., Jeanne Brulay De Coster, and Cyrus Cole De Coster, Jr., resided at this address. The original owner of this house was Christopher C. Andrews (1829-1922), a lawyer, a Civil War General (Third Minnesota Infantry Regiment,) ambassador during the Grant Administration to Denmark (1869) and to Sweden (1869-1877,) consul general to Brazil (1882-1885,) an author of a travelogue desribing an 1856 trip through the Minnesota and Dacotah territory, editor of the St. Cloud Union (subsequently renamed the St. Cloud Times) (1861,) an author of histories of the battle of Mobile Bay (1865) and of the City of St. Paul, the first Chief Fire Warden of the State of Minnesota (1895-1905) and later its Forestry Commissioner (1905-1911, commemorated by the creation of the General C. C. Andrews State Forest in 1943,) between 1895 and 1902, the father of the forest reserves that would become the Chippewa National Forest, the Superior National Forest, and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA,) and a member of the state forestry board (1905-1922.) By the time of the Civil War, Andrews had progressed from an apologist for slavery to a champion of freedom for African-Americans. Christopher Columbus Andrews was the author of Minnesota and Dacotah (1857,) A Practical Treatise on the Revenue Laws of the United States (1858,) The Condition and Needs of Spring Wheat Culture in the Northwest (1882,) History of the Campaign of Mobile (1889,) A History of St. Paul, Minnesota (1890,) and A Narrative of the Third Regiment (189?.) He also was a commissioner for the construction of the Minnesota monument at the Shiloh battlefield, with Lucius F. Hubbard and Henry S. Hurter. Andrews was born in New Hampshire and married Mary Frances Baxter Andrews, who was born at Hillsboro, New Hampshire, in 1837. The couple had a daughter, Alice E. Andrews. General Andrews apparently never lived in this house, but lived at 833 Goodrich during the period 1892-1900. He also owned 656 Summit Avenue, the house next door. The house was built for $8,000 (Sandeen and Larson.) Cyrus Cole DeCoster (1846- ) was a partner with Kenneth Clark in DeCoster & Clark, furniture manufacturers and dealers located at 72-74 Jackson Street, in 1879. Lucius Frederick Hubbard (1836-1913) was born in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, was orphaned in 1846, first worked as a tinsmith in the east and then in Chicago, moved to Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minnesota, with a hand operated printing press and became the publisher and editor of the Red Wing Republican, was a Republican, served in the Fifth Minnesota Regiment, subsequently became a General in the Union Army during the Civil War, was wounded at the Battle of Corinth and at the Battle of Nashville, was the author of Minnesota in the battles of Corinth, May-October, 1862: An address delivered before the Minnesota Historical Society, engaged in engaged in milling and railroading after the Civil War as a partner in the Midland Railroad and president of the Cannon Valley Railroad, married Amelia Thomas in 1868, was a member of Minnesota State Senate representing Goodhue County, Minnesota (16th District and 17th District) from 1872 to 1876, was Governor of Minnesota from 1882 to 1887, was a delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota in 1896, was a member of Republican National Committee from Minnesota in 1896, was a general in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War (Third Division of the Seventh Army,) resided in St. Paul in 1889, was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, was a member of the Loyal Legion of the United States and was a member of the Freemasons. Hubbard County, Minnesota, was named for Lucius F. Hubbard. Lieutenant Henry Hurter (1831- ,) a native of Switzerland, and a resident of Chengwatana, Pine County, Minnesota, was promoted in 1862 and 1863, after enlistment in 1861, and commanded the First Minnesota Light Artillery Battery at the battle of Vicksburg in 1863 (see photo of the commemorative plaque) and in Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida in 1864. Jeanne Brulay De Coster was a graduate of Yale University. Christopher Columbus Andrews (1829-1922) is buried in Oakland Cemetery. William Dontater Kirk (1843-1906) was born in Adams, New York, moved to St. Paul, married Flora Horner, the daughter of William Horner and Josephine Taylor Horner and granddaughter of Benjamin Taylor and Zerua Rosecrans Taylor, was employed by the First National Bank of St. Paul from 1869 until 1880, was an organizer, with Lathrop E. Reed, J. L. Forepaugh, J. H. Sanders, Reuben Warner, Kenneth Clark, Alvaren Allen, W. P. Warren, C. C. DeCoster, Reginald Paris, Fred S. Nichols, and S. S. Eaton, of the Capital Bank of St. Paul, with 20 percent of its initially issued shares, was the cashier of the Capital Bank of St. Paul until 1890, and thereafter was the president of the Capital Bank of St. Paul. Upon the death of William D. Kirk, the Capital Bank of St. Paul was sold to outside interests. William Dontater Kirk and Flora Horner Kirk had one child, Charles Kirk. Flora Ann Kirk ( -1949) died in Todd County, Minnesota. The current owners of record of the property are Christopher Turoski and Jessica Turoski. Kristen Copham, Product Development Director for Message Products who resided at this address, was a contributor to the Democratic National Committee in 2004. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
656 Summit Avenue: 656 Summit Avenue, Built in 1892 (1928 according to the National Register of Historic Places or 1889 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival/Queen Anne/Colonial Revival in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect. The building is a two story, 4123 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. Construction of the house cost $8,000 (Sandeen and Larson.) The house was built by General C. C. Andrews according to the Minnesota Historical Society. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The owner of this house was Christopher C. Andrews. E. R. Sanford, Jr., lived at this address in 1914. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Joseph E. McWilliams resided at this address from 1893 to 1898 and that Edward R. Sanford, Jr., resided at this address from 1908 to 1967. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Warren Hewitt Mead (1837-1910,) the widower father of George H. Mead, who was born in the United States to parents also born in the United States and who died of old age, resided at this address in 1910. The 1918 and 1924 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Sanford and their daughter resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Edward R. Sanford, the proprietor of Sanford & Company, and his wife, Charlotte M. Sanford, resided at this address. Warren Hewitt Mead was born in Genoa, Cayuga County, New York, the son of Lockwood Mead and Susan Miller Mead, graduated from the Cazanovia Seminary in 1857, moved to Kentucky and taught at the Bradsford Institute, was a First Lieutenant in Company F of the Sixth Kentucky Cavalry, was captured at Chickamauga, served in several Confederate prisons, including the Libby Prison, escaped from the Winnsborough, South Carolina, prison in 1864, was mustered out of the Union Army in 1865, returned to Kentucky and was admitted to the practice of law in Kentucky, moved to Northfield, Minnesota, in 1866, moved to St. Paul in 1870, was a partner in Mead & Thompson from 1870 until 1879, served two terms in the Minnesota Legislature, was a Presbyterian, was a temperance advocate, and was a Republican. Warren Hewitt Mead married Frances A. Hughes in Kentucky in 1866 and the couple had two children, George H. Mead and Charlotte L. Mead. The current owners of record of the property are Jeffer Ali and Susan Davis Ali. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Alfred S. Guiterman, who attended the school from 1917 until 1918 and who officed at 206 East Fifth Street, resided at the former nearby 657 Summit Avenue. [See note on Andrews for 650 Summit Avenue.] [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
659 Summit Avenue: M. H. B. Gates House; Built in 1889 (1885 according to Ramsey County property tax records and to Minnesota Historical Society records;) Queen Anne/Victorian in style; D. B. Spear, architect. The structure is now a three story, 7324 square foot, multi-family apartment house. The property also includes a one story, 567 square foot, structure, built in 1922. The original owner of this house was Lillie June Bartlett. The house was built for $8,000. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Theodore A. Bartlett resided at this address in 1886 and that Horace B. Gates resided at this address from 1887 to 1893. The 1887, 1889, and 1891 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Gates resided at this address. The 1893 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Gates and Marshall De Motte resided at this address. In 1890, H. B. Gates lived at this address and, in 1914, J. B. Meagher resided at this address according to the city directories. In 1916, John B. Meagher was a member of the Minnesota Historical Society and resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Meagher resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Harry E. Duffy, a chauffeur employed at this address, resided at 1270 Lincoln Avenue. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Meagher resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that John B. Meagher, a real estate agent located at the Hamm Building, and his wife, Katherine Meagher, resided at this address. In 1887, the Mankato, Minnesota, gas plant is purchased by John B. Meagher and H.A. Patterson. John B. Meagher was a student in the Class of 1889 of the University of Notre Dame. Katherine Kelly Meagher, the daughter of P. H. Kelly, a graduate of the Visitation Convent, and the treasurer of the Catholic guild of Women, married John B. Meagher in 1907. John B. Meagher was a member of the Capitol Trust Company in 1912. Horace B. Gates ( -1940) died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Sonja L. Sudheimer.
660-662 Summit Avenue: Built in 1925; Spanish Colonial Revival/Early Modern Rectilinear in style; Raoul Reed, architect. The building is a two story, 3744 square foot, six bedroom, four bathroom, stucco house, with one detached garage and one tuck-under garage. The house cost $8,500 to build. The 1879 city directory indicates that Robert Craig, a partner with John P. Larkin in Craig & Larkin, a crockery and glassware dealer located at 66 East Third Street, resided at or near this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Bernard G. Bechhoefer, associated with the law firm of O'Brien, Horn & Stringer, and his wife, Estelle Bechhoefer, James Moore, and his wife, Alice Moore, all resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Raoul Reed (1894-1980) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Philfe, and died in Ramsey County. The last sale of the property occurred in 2006 and the sale price was $800,000. The previous owners of record of the property were Joseph A. Radecki and Marielena M. Radecki and the current owners of record of the rental property are James R. Councilman and Mary H. Councilman, who reside at 8 Crocus Hill.
665 Summit Avenue: C. E. Ritterhouse House; Built in 1889 (1894 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne in style; E. J. Hodgson, architect. The structure is a two story, 3732 square foot, four bedroom, three bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. Building the house cost $6,000. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1891 and 1893 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Rittenhouse resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that H. A. Gray resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Sarah A. Canner (1850-1919,) the single sister of J. A. Canner, who was born in England to parents who were born in England and who died of myocarditis, resided at this address in 1919. The 1930 city directory indicates that Michael J. Marrinan, the president of the St. Paul Serum Company and treasurer of the Marrinan Medical Supply Company, his wife, Alice Marrinan, James W. Marrinan, vice president of the Marrinan Medical Supply Company and secretary of the St. Paul Serum Company, and his wife, Lillyan M. Marrinan, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Thomas F. Soderberg, a member of the Class of 1960, resided at this address. Charles E. Rittenhouse (1850- ,) the son of John Hughes Rittenhouse (1825-1853) and Jane L./S. Simonton Rittenhouse, grandson of David Rittenhouse and Sarah Hughes Rittenhouse (1778- ,) and great grandson of Benjamin Rittenhouse and Elizabeth Bull Rittenhouse, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great grandfather Benjamin Rittenhouse, a Private in the Pennsylvania Troops, and great great grandfather John Bull, Adjutant-General commanding a brigade of the Pennsylvania Militia, during the Revolutionary War. John Hughes Rittenhouse was a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church. Charles Edwin Rittenhouse married Grace Hubbell (1860- )in 1883 and had two children, John Hughes Rittenhouse (1885-1886) and Catherine Rittenhouse (1886- .) Charles Rittenhouse was the president of the People's Bank, St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1884, Eddie Mason, a 16 year old messenger employed by the People's Bank of St. Paul, and his friend, John Parker, were arrested in Wausau, Wisconsin, after stealing $6,021 from the bank. In 1922, the Marrinan Medical Supply Company was located at the Hamm Building. E. J. Hodgson was an Indianapolis, Indiana, architect in the 1880's and 1890's. The current owner of record of the property is Larry R. Johns.
666 Summit Avenue: Built in 1880 (1925 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Spanish Colonial Revival/Early Modern Rectilinear in style; Raoul Reed, architect. The structure is a two story, 3744 square foot, six bedroom, two bathroom, stucco house, with a one car tuck-under garage, which last sold in 1998 for $325,000. Construction of the house cost $8,500. The 1930 city directory indicates that William C. Kenney, the president-treasurer of the Kenney-Michaud Agency, Inc., insurance brokers, his wife, Katherine Kenney, and Paul A. Rumpf resided at this address. In 1934, William C. Kennedy and Katherine Moroney Kennedy resided at this address and were members of the University Club, the Somerset Club, the St. Paul Athletic Club, and the Womens Club of St. Paul. Also in 1934, Mr. and Mrs. James S. Thompson, Sr., and James S. Thompson, Jr., resided at this address and were members of the Somerset Club, the Minikahda Country Club, and the University Club. Warren Burger, the future U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, resided at this address in 1951. In 2004, St. Albans Summit LLC appealed a side yard setback variance to the St. Paul Board of Zoning Appeals in order to build two new garages at this address. William Charles Kennedy ( -1935) died in Ramsey County. Katherine Kennedy (1879-1961) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Conners, and died in Ramsey County. Raoul Reed (1894-1980) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Philfe, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are James R. Councilman and Mary H. Councilman, who reside at 8 Crocus Hill. Heidi J. Pederson resided at this address in 2003. Labat Consulting, Inc., is currently located at this address. Kirstin Beach and Mike Beach also reside at this address. Kirstin Beach was a Republican Party of Minnesota candidate for the Minnesota House of Representatives, District 64A. [See note on Burger for 695 Conway Street]
669 Summit Avenue: Dr. J. C. Schadle House; Built in 1894; Queen Anne in style; Mould & McNicol, architects. The structure is a two story, 3424 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. The 1891 and 1893 city directories indicate that Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Schadle resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Jennie R. Schadle (1854-1916,) the widowed sister of J. R. Miller, who was born in Pennsylvania to parents who were born in the United States and who died of illuminating gas poisoning, resided at this address in 1916. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Hebon N. Lyon and Mrs. Mary C. Lyon all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Heber N. Lyon, the vice president of C. B. Lyon & Brother, Inc., and his wife, Mary G. Lyon, resided at this address. In 1934, Mary Gregory Lyon, the widow of Heber N. Lyon, resided at this address and was a member of the Society of the First Families of Virginia. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Fendall C. Lyon (1915- ,) who attended the school from 1930 until 1934 and who attended the University of Minnesota, resided at this address. In 1951, the property was the subject of litigation about zoning on Summit Avenue, and Warren Burger, a future U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, then residing at 666 Summit Avenue, challenged the ability of Alvin J. Jansen to convert the building into a fourplex. Burger prevailed before the Minnesota Supreme Court in Burger v. St. Paul, 241 Minn 285 (1954.) The Order of First Families of Virginia was established in 1912. The First Families of Virginia represent the Cavaliers, the younger sons of Seventeenth Century English gentry who stood to inherit nothing under English law or royalists fleeing Oliver Cromwell's republican victory in England's 1642-1649 Civil War, who were the leading families, but not the first chronologically, of the Virginia Colony, and the class that ruled Virginia until after the American Revolution. Jacob E. Schadle ( -1908,) Heber Newton Lyon ( -1932,) and Mary Lyon ( -1953) all died in Ramsey County. Alvin J. Jansen (1892-1978) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Schaefer, and died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Elsa Frettem and Bernard Gonzalez. Seeds of Peace, an organization that operates a summer camp that brings together youth from conflict regions, is located at this address. [See note on Burger for 695 Conway Street]
670 Summit Avenue: Built in 1925. The structure is a two story, 3744 square foot, 14 room, six bedroom, four bathroom, duplex with a basement garage and a detached garage. The 1910-1911 Directory of the University of Minnesota indicates that Florence Mayfred Briggs, a student, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Florence Mayfred Briggs was the daughter of Warren S. Briggs. Warren S. Briggs (1854- ,) the son of Isaac Austin Briggs and Elizabeth Briggs, was born at Green Lake Prairie, Wisconsin, graduated from the village school in Arcadia, Wisconsin, graduated from Galesville University in 1876, was educated in medicine in Louisville, Kentucky, graduated from Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago in 1879, took post-graduate studies in Europe, practiced medicine in Whitehall, Wisconsin, in 1879, was a homœopathic physician in Arcadia, Wisconsin, from 1879 until 1881, moved to St. Paul in 1881, was a professor of Clinical and ortheopedic surgery in the College of Homœopathic Medicine and Surgery in the University of Minnesota, was on the staff of the city and county, St. Luke's and St. Joseph's hospitals, married Florence Lucy Chase in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, in 1885, purchased a homœopathic medical hospital in 1888 and operated it as a private hospital, established the first training school for nurses northwest of Chicago, was a member of the American Institute of Homœopathy, was a member of the Minnesota State Homœopathic Institute, and was a member of the Ramsey County Homœopathic Medical Society. In 1896, Warren S. Briggs lost litigation to E. Walther and James E. Trask as assignees for $4,044.32. Florence Lucy Chase Briggs (1862- ,) the daughter of Charles Foster Chase and Rosina Randall Chase, was born in Ripley, Michigan, graduated from the Potsdam State Normal School and the Pianoforte School of Potsdam, New York, in 1881, was a Unitarian, was the president of the Schubert Club, and was a member of the New Century Club. Warren S. Briggs and Florence Lucy Chase Briggs had one child, Florence Mayfred Briggs (1887- .) Florence Mayfred Briggs received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Minnesota in 1909 and later became a high school teacher. The last sale of the property occurred in 1998 and the sale price was $325,000. The current owners of record of the property are James R. Councilman and Mary H. Councilman, who reside at 8 Crocus Hill.
672 Summit Avenue: The Waldorf Apartments; Built in 1898 (1900 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Classical Revival/Colonial Revival in style; Hermann Kretz, architect. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Hermann Kretz owned this building and owned number of apartment buildings in the Historic Hill area. The building was constructed for $54,300. The building has an unusual surface treatment, with alternating bands of smoothly dressed and rockfaced red sandstone. The building has been converted to condominium units. 672 Summit Avenue Unit #1 is a 736 square foot, three room, one bedroom, one bathroom, condominium which is owned by Courtney Lawrence and David Lawrence and which last sold in 2005 for $270,000. 672 Summit Avenue Unit #101 is a 3612 square foot, five room, two bedroom, one bathroom, condominium, with a detached one car garage, which is owned by David C. Quig. 672 Summit Avenue Unit #102 is a 4065 square foot, five room, two bedroom, one bathroom, condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by Kathryn A. McKenny and which last sold in 2005 for $670,000. 672 Summit Avenue Unit #201 is a 1546 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom, condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by Donald F. Pike Jr., and Wendy Pike, who reside in Bloomingdale, Illinois, and which last sold in 2006 for $508,000. 672 Summit Avenue Unit #202 is a 1589 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by James H. Day and Janice F. Day. 672 Summit Avenue Unit #301 is a 1544 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom, condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by the Harry Debes Trust, located in Greenwood Village, Colorado, and which last sold in 2005 for $535,000. 672 Summit Avenue Unit #302 is a 1588 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom, condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by Jerald Daigle and David A. Pedersen and which last sold in 2005 for $530,000. The 1906 Jubilee Manual of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church indicates that Sarah H. Nunnally, the widow of Eldred Nunnally and a member of the church since 1896, and Dorotha J. Nunnally, a member of the church since 1897, both resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Nelson D. Miller resided at this address in 1889. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Major John Kelliher (1840-1908,) the husband of Harriet A. Irvine Kelliher, who was born in St. James, New Brunswick, and who died of valvular heart disease, resided at this address in 1908. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Rosina R. Chase (1826-1909,) the widowed mother of Mrs. Warren S. Briggs, who was born in the United States to parents also born in the United States and who died of pneumonia, resided at this address in 1909 and her body was eventually reburied in Potsdam, New York. The 1918 city directory indicates that the residents at this address were J. C. Egerton, Miss M. C. Egerton, W. C. Egerton, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hartsinck, her daughter, E. J. Kent, Allen McQuillan, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Pechin, Rev. and Mrs. J. R. Smith, and Paul Smith. The 1920 city directory indicates that Louise Beck, the widow of Stephen Beck, Hampden H. Carlson, a dentist with a practice at 922 1/2 Selby Avenue, Fred W. Crane, a sales manager employed by Swift & Company, and Walter C. Egerton, a salesman employed by Finch, Van Slyke & McConnville, all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that the residents at 672 Summit Avenue were Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Clancy, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hartsinck, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Konantz, the Misses MacDougall, and Allen McQuillan. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that John G. Brown resided at this address in 1930. The 1930 city directory indicates that Adolph Konantz, a Christian Science practitioner, and his wife, Jennie Konantz, resided at apartment #1, that Edward T. Hughes, a salesman employed by J. H. Kartack Company, and his wife, Jane M. Kartack, resided at apartment #2, that Allen McQuillan resided at apartment #3, that Katherine A. MacDougall resided at apartment #4, that apartment #5 was vacant, and that apartment #6 was vacant. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that James T. Dunn, a member of the Class of 1932, resided at this address. In 2004, St. Albans Summit LLC appealed two variances to the St. Paul Board of Zoning Appeals in order to build 14 new garages at 672 and 676 Summit Avenue. John Kelliher (1840-1908) was born in St. John's, New Brunswick, moved to Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1845, received a common school education in Massachusetts, graduated from a commercial college in Providence, Rhode Island, served in the 20th Massachusetts Regiment during the American Civil War, was promoted to the rank of Major, was wounded three times and lost an arm at Spottsylvania, Virginia, in 1864, resumed service with the regular army after the American Civil War, retired from the U. S. Army in 1870, studied the law, settled in St. Paul in 1872, married Harriet A. Irvine, the daughter of John R. Irvine, in 1873, was the attorney for the purpose of the service of process of the Aetna Insurance Company in 1874, engaged in the real estate business with an office at 28 East Third Street, had a carriage works at 192-194 West Third Street in 1884, and died in St. Paul. John Kelliher, Harriet Kelliher, and Mattie Gorman, the daughter of R. L. Gorman, vacationed at Lake Osakis, Minnesota, in 1884. John Kelliher and Harriet A. Irvine Kelliher had four children, Hattie B. Kelliher, John G. Kelliher, Robert J. Kelliher, and Shirley I. Kelliher. The Kelliher burial plot at Oakland Cemetery includes the graves of Harriet I. Kelliher (1850-1921,) John Kelliher (1840-1908,) and Richard Kelliher (1890-1892.) Arthur H. Mundy ( -1938) died in Itasca County, Minnesota. Clara E. Mundy ( -1920) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are James R. Councilman and Mary H. Councilman, who reside at 8 Crocus Hill. [See note on Kretz for 579 Summit Avenue.] < a href ="http://www.angelfire.com/mn/thursdaynighthikes/wsummit.html"> [See note for George van Slyke for 1180 Summit Avenue.] [See the note for Swift & Company for 110 Robie Street West.]
676 Summit Avenue: The Waldorf Apartments; Built in 1900; Colonial Revival in style; Hermann Kretz, architect. The structure is a three story, 32264 square foot, multi-family apartment house. The building has been converted to condominium units. 676 Summit Avenue Unit #1 is a 848 square foot, three room, one bedroom, one bathroom condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by James H. Day and Janice F. Day and which last sold in 2005 for $253,860. 676 Summit Avenue Unit #101 is a 3798 square foot, five room, two bedroom, one bathroom condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by Susan C. Parker and Walter D. Parker of Tucson, Arizona, and which last sold in 2005 for $685,000. 676 Summit Avenue Unit #102 is a 3999 square foot, five room, two bedroom, one bathroom condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by Robert G. Kovich and Sally J. Schmidt. 676 Summit Avenue Unit #201 is a 1546 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by Donald F. Pike, Jr., and Wendy Pike of Bloomingdale, Illinois, and which last sold in 2006 for $508,000. 676 Summit Avenue Unit #202 is a 1625 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by Alan Graebner and Margaret K. Graebner and which last sold in 2005 for $488,712. 676 Summit Avenue Unit #301 is a 1572 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by Ryan Tauer and Melissa Wellington and which last sold in 2006 for $540,250. 676 Summit Avenue Unit #303 is a 1628 square foot, four room, two bedroom, one bathroom condominium with a detached one car garage which is owned by Grant N. Whitney and Stephanie R. Whitney and which last sold in 2005 for $540,280. The 1908 city directory indicates that Arthur W. Mundy, superintendent of the Golden Rule, boarded at 676 Summit Avenue, that Clara E. Mundy, widow of Edward O. Mundy, resided at 676 Summit Avenue, and that Harry L. Mundy, an employee of A. Guthrie & Company, boarded at 676 Summit Avenue. The 1918 city directory indicates that the residents at this address were Dr. and Mrs. G. A. Renz, Mrs. H. S. Fairchild, her daughter, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Risser, Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Miller, their daughter, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Guyer, L. S. Oakes, Rev. and Mrs. J. D. Reid, their daughter, and Kenneth Reid. The 1920 city directory indicates that Caroline F. Fairchild, the principal of the Riverside School, boarded at this address and that Elizabeth Fairchild, the widow of Henry Fairchild, resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Anna Laura Miller (1844-1922,) the wife of Nelson D. Miller, who was born in Canada to parents who were born in Scotland and who died of c. interstitial nephritis, resided at this address in 1922. The 1924 city directory indicates that the residents at 676 Summit Avenue were Mrs. A. K. Blaine and her daughter, Mrs. H. S. Fairchild, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Guyer, Miss S. M. Miller, and Nelson Miller and his daughter. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Elizabeth C. Fairchild (1844-1925,) the widowed mother of Caroline Fairchild, who was born in Maryland to parents born in the United States and who died of broncho pneumonia, resided at this address in 1926. The 1930 city directory indicates that Perry M. Griffis, a janitor,and his wife, Mattie Grifffis, resided at the basement apartment, that Herbert H. Matteson, president of the Matteson Company, a general insurance agency, resided at apartment #7, that Caroline Fairchild, principal of the Riverside School, resided at apartment #8, that Mrs. Hattie E. Macdonald, the widow of John M. L. Macdonald, resided at apartment #9, that John G. Brown, a traveling salesman, and his wife, Olive Brown, resided at apartment #10, that apartment #11 was vacant, and that John B. Brimhall, a physician who officed at 350 St. Peter Street, and his wife, Laura Brimhall, resided at apartment #12. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Lawrence Boardman, a member of the Class of 1914 and a Second Lieutenant in the Infantry at Camp Lewis, Washington, and a First Lieutenant with the Eighth Ammunition train at Camp Fremont, St. Paul, during World War I, resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Lawrence Boardman, who attended the school from 1913 until 1914, who was a First Lieutenant in the Infantry during World War I, and was employed by the St. Paul Pioneer Press, resided at this address. Henry Shields Fairchild (1826-1913,) the son of Lewis Fairchild (1797-1886) and Elizabeth Day Fairchild (1799- ,) was born in Warren County, Ohio, moved to St. Paul in 1857, married Elizabeth Matilda Clayland (1834- ) in 1857, was engaged in the real estate and loan businesses in the partnership of Fairchild & March, located on Fourth Street between St. Peter Street and Market Street, was an attendee of the first Grand Jubilee Social of the Minnesota Territorial Pioneers in 1898, was the author of Sketches of the Early History of Real Estate in St. Paul in 1905, was elected a life member of the Minnesota Historical Society in 1882, was a member of the executive council of the Minnesota Historical Society from 1894 until 1913, was a member of the board of directors of the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce, was instrumental in finding the sites for the state capitol building and for the State Fair, and died in St. Paul. Henry Shields Fairchild and Elizabeth Matilda Clayland Fairchild had 11 children, Fannie Fairchild (1859- ,) Charles Clayland Fairchild (1862- ,) Lewis Cyrus Fairchild (1863- ,) Caroline Friend Fairchild (1865- ,) Florence Fairchild (1868- ,) Horace Greely Fairchild (1872- ,) Alice Fairchild (1876- ,) Lambert Fairchild (1880- ,) who married Mabel Hortense Polhamus (1880- ,) John Day Fairchild (1882- ,) Byron Fairchild (1884- ,) and Josiah Fairchild (1886- .) John Horsburg painted a portrait of Henry Shields Fairchild in 1887, which is owned by the Minnesota Historical Society. In 1966, "Fairchild the Gopher" became the official mascot of the Minnesota State Fair as a tribute to Henry S. Fairchild, the man who suggested that the former Ramsey County Poor Farm site become the permanent site of the State Fair. It is also The property was last sold for $595,000 and that sale occurred in 1995. The current owners of record of the property are James R. Councilman and Mary H. Councilman, who reside at 8 Crocus Hill. [See note on Kretz for 579 Summit Avenue.]
677 Summit Avenue: 677 Summit Avenue; Built between 1930-1940 (1933 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian/Colonial Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 2478 square foot, 16 room, four bedroom, three bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2000 for $364,000. This house originally stood at 637 Lexington Parkway. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. In 1934, Hattie Belote MacDonald, the widow of John M. L. MacDonald, resided at this address. The house was moved to this site in 1959. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Roger S. Countryman, Jr., a member of the Class of 1955, resided at this address. In 1972-1973, Jeffrey Goodlow, a Senior at Macalester College, resided at this address. Hattie Eloise MacDonald ( -1947) died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Brian Moe and Lynn Moe, who reside in Andover, Minnesota. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Gustave Renz, M.D. (1861-1919,) the husband of Anna Renz, who was born in Minnesota to parents who were born in Germany and who died of a carcinoma, resided at the nearby former 676 Summit Avenue in 1919.
682 Summit Avenue: Joseph Lockey House; Built in 1893; Romanesque in style; Hermann Kretz, architect. The structure is a 1910 square foot, five room, two bedroom, two bathroom, stone condominium, which was last sold in 1998 for $225,000. The current owner of record of the property is Jacqueline M. Vaale. In 2001, Jacqueline Vaale was the Director of Systems Management Services at Unysis. [See note on Kretz for 579 Summit Avenue.]
683 Summit Avenue: Jacob E. Schadle House; Built in 1895 (1894 according to Ramsey County property tax records); Georgian/Colonial Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 4315 square foot, ten room, six bedroom, four bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. The house was built for $16,000. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that the house was built by Dr. Jacob E. Schadle and that Cyrus C. DeCoster resided at this address from 1896 to 1901. B. F. Myers resided at this address in 1914. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Myers resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Leo E. Owens, the president and publisher of the Dispatch-Pioneer Press Company, and his wife, Marie Owens, resided at this address. In 1934, Leo E. Owens, Sr., Marie Reilly Owens, Leo E. Owens, Jr., Ellen Owens, and Owen Owens resided at this address. Leo E. Owens, Sr., was a graduate of the University of Minnesota and of Columbia University. The Owens family were members of the Minikahda Country Club, the St. Paul Athletic Club, the Minneapolis Club, and the Women's City Club of St. Paul in 1934. Jacob E. Schadle was a physician. Jacob E. Schadle ( -1908) died in Ramsey County. Leo H. Owens ( -1938) died in Hennepin County. Marie E. Owens (1877-1967) was born outside of Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Murphy, and died in Hennepin County. The current owner of record of the property is the trustee for Margaret M. Moroney.
684 Summit Avenue: Built in 1893; Richardsonian Romanesque in style; Hermann Kretz, architect. The structure is a 1910 square foot, seven room, three bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, stone condominium, which was last sold in 2001 for $350,000. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that the house was a double house with 9 South St. Albans that was built by Joseph Lockey, but not occupied by him, and that Philip S. Shufeldt resided at this address from 1894 to 1897. The 1906 Jubilee Manual of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church indicates that Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser and H. (Mrs. F. E.) Weyerhaeuser, members of the church since 1904, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Enos Bryson, Miss Mae Russell, and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ginnaty all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that John W. Ginnaty and his wife, Mary H. Ginnaty, resided at this address. In 1972-1973, Nurit Barkan, a Freshman at Macalester College, resided at this address. The current owner of record of the property is Barbara Kranz. Barbara Kranz is a runner who participated in the 2000 Run For The Roses 5K Race, the 2000 Autumn Woods Classic 5K Race, the 2004 Guidant Heart of Summer 5k Road Race, the 2004 Run to the Cemetery 5K Race, and the 2005 James Joyce Ramble 10K Race. [See note on Hermann Kretz for 579 Summit Avenue.]
686 Summit Avenue: Built in 1893. The structure is a 1910 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, stone condominium, which was last sold in 2001 for $285,169. The current owners of record of the property are Jugna J. Shah and Ronak R. Shah. Jugna J. Shah, MPH, is the president and founder of Nimitt Consulting, Inc., consulting in ambulatory payment reform, health care financing system implementation and advocacy. Ms. Shah also is the U.S. project director assisting the Romanian government in implementing health care financing reform, through a contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID.) Ms. Shah holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Biopsychology from Oberlin College, and a Masters of Public Health Policy and Administration degree from the University of Michigan. Ronak R. Shah, CPA, was the Planning Task Force Chair for the 50th Annual MNCPA Tax Conference in 2004 and is the Managing Principal of Shah & Company, Ltd., which is an accounting, taxation and business advisory firm, specializing in international and multi-state tax issues that was founded in 1987. Mr. Shah received his Bachelors of Arts Degree in International Management from Hamline University and became a CPA in 1996. Mr. Shah also is an active member of the Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants (MNCPA), involved on the Tax Conference, Multi-state Tax Conference and Legislative Affairs committees and the Speakers Bureau, was the Vice Chairman of the MNCPA's Political Action Committee Board of Trustees, and is associated with the Network of Indian Professionals' Twin Cities.
696 Summit Avenue: Built in 1963; Bungalow in style; Alladin Improvement Company, builder and architect. The structure is a 1880 square foot, four bedroom, two bathroom, stucco rambler, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 1988 for $83,000. The house was built for Empire Realty Company. Construction of the house cost $13,500. The current owner of record of the property is Martin J. Meketarian, who is located at 25 Griggs Street North.
700-702 Summit Avenue: Built in 1919; Walter Stevens, architect. The structure is a two story, 3292 square foot, six bedroom, two bathroom, two half-bathroom, brick double house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2004 for $450,000. The house was built for D. E. Foley. House construction cost $8,000. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ordway, Jr., resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Daniel E. Foley resided at 700 Summit Avenue. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1934, Major H. P. Blanks, Margaret Inman Blanks, Robert Blanks, and Henry Blanks resided at 700 Summit Avenue. The current owner of record of the property Douglas J. Sucik, who resides in Nisswa, Minnesota. W. H. Elsinger House, Built in 1908 (1898 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Renaissance Revival/Tudor/Medieval Revival in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect. The structure is a two story, 6242 square foot, eight bedroom, four bathroom, stone house, with a detached garage. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that William H. Elsinger resided at this address from 1899 to 1908. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Rose resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Mayme Rose resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. William H. Elsinger was the proprietor of the former Aberdeen Hotel and was a partner in the firm of W. H. Elsigner & Co., which operated the Golden Rule Department Store. Elsinger was the brother of Bettie Elsinger Dittenhofer, who lived at 705 Summit Avenue with her husband, Jacob Dittenhofer. Jacob Dittenhofer was William Elsinger's business partner. The house was built for $13,000 (Sandeen; $14,000 according to Larson.) Johnston was contracted in 1913 to remodel the house for Albert N. Rose, and the remodeling cost $1,000. In 1914, Isidor Rose (1832-1915) lived at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Rose and Mrs. Nancy Rose all resided at this address. Isidor Rose was the manager of the St. Paul branch of the Joseph Ullmann Fur Company and resided at 220 E. 9th Street in 1900. The American Jewish Year Book for 1907 indicates that Jacob Dittenhofer was the president of the Mount Zion Hebrew Congregation. The Elsinger burial plot at the Mount Zion Temple Cemetery in Maplewood, Minnesota, includes the graves of William H. Elsinger (1860-1905,) Regina Elsinger (1823-1900,) Max Elsinger (1811-1870,) Sam Elsinger (1848-1872,) Karl W. Elsinger (1893-1958,) Mary Elsinger (1958-1931,) and Joseph Elsinger (1842-1917.) William H. Elsinger (1860-1905) was born in the United States and died in Ramsey County. Isidon Rose ( -1915,) Albert N. Rose ( -1928,) and Jacob Dittenhofer ( -1931) all died in Ramsey County. The previous owner of record of the property was Kenneth O'Neil and the current owner of record of the property is Louise M. O'Neil. The 1930 city directory indicates that Charles B. Sexton resided at the nearby former 702 Summit Avenue. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
704-706 Summit Avenue: Built in 1919; Walter Stevens, architect. The building is a two story, 3292 square foot, 14 room, six bedroom, two bathroom, two half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. The house was built for D. E. Foley. Construction of the house cost $8,000. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. M. G. McGuire resided at 704 Summit Avenue and that Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Michaud resided at 706 Summit Avenue. The 1930 city directory indicated that Chris D. Pamel, a partner with Louis D. Pamel in Pamel Brothers, a florist, and his wife, Emily Pamel, resided at the former nearby 704 Summit Avenue. The current owner of record of the property is Adrian Drew Stetler. [See note on Stevens for 335 Summit Avenue.]
705 Summit Avenue: Jacob Dittenhofer and Bettie Dittenhofer House; Built in 1898; Renaissance Revival/Eclectic/Medieval Revival/Gothic in style; Cass Gilbert, original architect, and Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., remodeling architect. The house cost $14,648 to construct. The structure is now a three story, 13378 square foot, multi-family apartment house. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Jacob Dittenhofer resided at this address from 1899 to 1932. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Dittenhofer and Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Rose and their daughter all resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Jacob Dittenhofer, the president of the Golden Rule, resided at this address and that Phil Foley was the yardman at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Dittenhofer and Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Rose all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Jacob Dittendorfer, president of the Dittenhofer Realty Company, and his wife, Bettie Dittenhofer, resided at this address. In 1934, Ella Dittenhofer Rose, the widow of I. E. Rose, resided at this address. Jacob Dittenhofer was partner in the Golden Rule Department Store with next door neighbor and brother-in-law, W. H. Elsigner. He was also director of the German American National Bank and the Sharood Shoe Corporation in St. Paul and was a member of the Minnesota Commercial Club. His son, Samuel William Dittenhofer ( -1981), eventually became a head of the Golden Rule Department Store and lived at 807 Summit Avenue. Samuel W. Dittenhofer married Mary Hague Babson, from Portland, Oregon, the daughter of Sydney Gorham Babson (1882-1975) and Grace Bowditch Campbell (1877-1970), and the former wife of Adam Borden Polson, in 1948, and the couple had one son, Samuel William Dittenhofer, Jr. Mary H. Babson Dittenhofer (1915-1998) was a 1936 graduate of Stanford University, was a member of the Monterey Museum of Art, and died at Carmel, California. Mary H. Babson Dittenhofer had three sons, Peter Polson, a 1960 graduate of Stanford University, and Alexander Polson, a 1965 recipient of a Masters of Business Administration degree from Stanford University, and S. William Dittenhofer III, a 1978 recipient of a Masters degree from Stanford University. Mary H. Babson Dittenhofer also had two brothers, Gorham Babson and Arthur Babson. Sydney Gorham Babson graduated from Princeton University in 1902, worked for a time in New York City with Sinclair & Babson, wholesalers of Portland Cement, and then with the Vulcanite Portland Cement Company, moved to Oregon, cleared the forest in the newly-settled Upper Hood River Valley, and planted one of the first commercial apple and pear orchards in the area, and authored Tahiti Holiday, Green Wave of Mexico, and Complete Poems. His poem "Verdun" was published in the New York Times in 1917. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that S. William Dittenhofer, Jr., who attended the school from 1920 until 1926, who attended Yale University, who was a Second Lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps during World War II, who later served as a Captain in the Army Reserve after World War II, and who was employed as a food broker, resided in Portland, Oregon. Johnston was retained in 1913 to remodel the house at a cost of $4,000. The Golden Rule eventually became Donaldson's Department Store, which later was purchased by Carson Pirie Scott, after which they moved operations to the Town Square Building, then discontinued business at that location in 1992 and departed downtown St. Paul. The Dittenhofer burial plot at Mount Zion Temple Cemetery in Maplewood, Minnesota, includes the graves of Madeline Dittenhofer (1889-1969,) Samuel W. Dittenhofer (1877-1952,) Bettie Dittenhofer (1850-1933,) Jacob Dittenhofer (1845-1931,) and Elinor D. Brodie (1906-1940.) Jacob Dittenhofer ( -1931) died in Ramsey County. Another picture of the house. The current owner of record of the property is Kenneth O'Doyle. The 1930 city directory indicates that Samuel A. Wilder resided at the former nearby 706 Summit Avenue. [See note on Gilbert for 318 Summit Avenue.] [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
710-712 Summit Avenue: H. M. Stocking House, Built in 1888 (1894 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Altered Victorian in style. Unit 1 is a 1851 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, stucco condominium which was last sold in 1996 for $184,000, and which is currently owned by Lori L. Bostrum. Unit 2 is a 1849 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, stucco condominium which was last sold in 2004 for $350,000, and which is currently owned by Randy Harrison and Janice Marka. Unit 3 is a 1521 square foot, two bedroom, one bathroom, stucco condominium which was last sold in 2002 for $229,900, and which is currently owned by Charles S. Neimeyer and Jane T. Ruvelson. Unit 4 is a 1216 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, stucco condominium which was last sold in 2001 for $186,000, and which is currently owned by Geoffrey Gerber, who resides in Minneapolis. Unit 5 is a 2437 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco condominium which was last sold in 1998 for $235,000, and which is currently owned by Bette R. Preus. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Stocking resided at 712 Summit Avenue. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mrs. H. M. Stocking resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that 710 Summit Avenue was vacant and that Mrs. Ermine V. Stocking, the widow of Hobart M. Stocking, resided at 712 Summit Avenue. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The original owner of the building was E. or C. Stocking. The house was built for $12,000. The 1889, 1891 and 1893 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lockey resided at this address. Joseph Lockey (1836-1909) resided at 712 Summit Avenue in 1890. The large Victorian house has been altered beyond recognition. It also has a carriage house which remains one of the most complex and intact carriage houses in the Historic Hill district. Joseph Lockey ( -1909) died in Ramsey County.
715 Summit Avenue: Built in 1984. The building is a two story, 1985 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a two car tuck-under garage, which was last sold in 1997 and the sale price was $243,000. The current owners of record of the property are Michael L. Hamann and Patricia A. Hamann, who reside in Perham, Minnesota. Michael L. Hamann is a dentist in Perham, Minnesota, and is a graduate of the University of Minnesota.
717 Summit Avenue: Built in 1984. The building is a two story, 1824 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a two car tuck-under garage, which was last sold in 2006 for $499,000. The previous owners of record of the property were Harold K. Higgins and Sandra J. Higgins and the current owner of record of the property is Patricia Lynn Murphy. Harold Higgins is the retired President/Publisher of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and is a member of the National Advisory Board of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Minnesota. Higgins (1951- ) retired in 2004, after 28 years with the Knight Ridder Corporation, as publisher of four different newspapers, in Aberdeen, in Boulder, in San Luis Obispo, and in St. Paul (2001-2004,) and was succeeded by Par Ridder (1969- ,) the former publisher of The San Luis Obispo, California Tribune, as the publisher of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Higgins earned an associate of arts degree from Tompkins-Cortland (N.Y.) Community College in 1970 and a B.S. from South Dakota State University in 1972 and graduated from the Stanford University Executive Program in 2001. Higgins is a member of the Board of Directors of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Business Partnership, and the Capital City Partnership, serves as chairman of the Knight Foundation's St. Paul Community Advisory Committee, is a member of the Twin Cities Communications Council, serves on the Inland Press Association Management and Costs Committee, is a seminar instructor for the National Cost and Revenue Study for daily newspapers, and is on the board of the Inland Press Association Foundation. Harold K. Higgins and Sandra J. Higgins are the parents of two children. Knight Ridder is the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher, with 31 daily newspapers in 28 U.S. markets.
719 Summit Avenue: Built in 1984. The building is a two story, 1851 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a two car tuck-under garage. The current owner of record of the property is Marilyn F. Mellor. Marilyn F. Mellor, M.D., practices pediatric emergency medicine in Minneapolis.
720 Summit Avenue: Built in 1914. The building is a two story, 1564 square foot, three bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2002 with a sale price of $259,900. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. The house was moved from 908 Portland Avenue. The house was owned by Dickerman Investment Company in 1922. Dickerman Park is an elongated 2.5 acres, tree lined stretch along University Avenue is between Fairview and Aldine Avenues donated in 1909 by the Dickerman Investment Company and Griggs, Cooper & Company, envisioning the park as a grand entrance to the heart of the city. Kent Dickerman is the grandson of one of Minnesota's turn of the century developers who formed the Dickerman Investment Company. The current owner of record of the property is James P. Mayer. James P. Mayer is a Senior Vice President and Investment Banker with the Dougherty & Co. and is a member of the Minnesota Zoological Board of Directors.
721 Summit Avenue: Built in 1984. The building is a two story, 2124 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a two car tuck-under garage. The property was last sold in 2006 and the sale price was $460,250. The previous owner of record of the property was Diane D. Scholl and the current owner of record of the property is David M. Sieben.
722 Summit Avenue: Built in 1914. The building is a two story, 1564 square foot, three bedroom, one bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2002 with a sale price of $245,000. The current owner of record of the property is Jeanne M. Kruchowski.
725 Summit Avenue: Built in 1984. The building is a two story, 2196 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a two car tuck-under garage, which was last sold in 1995 for $160,000. The current owners of record of the property are Kevin J. Moynihan and Ngoc H. Tran. Kevin J. Moynihan is associated with the organization Scoil na dTri, a dance group consisting of approximately 15 dancers, and participated in the 2004 St. Paul St. Patrick's Day Parade. Kevin J. Moynihan is the principal with Upper Midwest Insurance Services, LLC. Kevin J. Moynihan, ACAS, MAAA, is a 1985 graduate of Babson College and previously was associated with Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Insurance Services Office, Inc., and Marsh USA, Inc.
726 Summit Avenue: 726 Summit Avenue; Built in 1903 (1904 according to Ramsey County property tax records); Queen Anne/Victorian in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The building is a two story, 3014 square foot, four bedroom, four bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The house was built for speculative/income purposes for Charles F. Arrol, a real estate agent who lived at 1921 Waltham Avenue in 1905. The house was built for $7,500. In 1914, Thomas Brennan resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Thomas Brennan, her daughter, and E. K. Brennan all resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Mary A. Brennan, the widow of Thomas Brennan, and Thomas C. Fitzpatrick, a lawyer who officed at the Oppenheim Building, both resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mrs. Thomas Brennan, their daughter, and T. C. Fitzpatrick all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Thomas C. Fitzpatrick, a lawyer with a law office at the Oppenheim Building, resided at this address. In 1879, Thomas Brennan represented St. Paul's Fifth Ward on the city's board of aldermen. Thomas Brennan ( -1918,) Mary A. Brennan ( -1925,) and Charles F. Arrol ( -1932) all died in Ramsey County. The current owners of record of the property are Christopher Q. Longley and Nancy M. Longley. [See note on Lockwood for 1118 Summit Avenue.]
727 Summit Avenue: Built in 1984. The building is a two story, 2196 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a two car tuck-under garage, which was last sold in 2001 for $340,000. The current owners of record of the property are Douglas D. Strandness and Lynette S. Strandness. Douglas D. Strandness and Lynette S. Strandness are associated with Dunbar Strandness Inc., a property management, asset management, and property investment firm which provides the management for Meadow Creek Condominiums, a 536-unit condominium community located in Hopkins, Minnesota. In 2003, Douglas Strandness was a financial supporter of the Randy Kelly for St. Paul Mayor campaign and resided at this address. Douglas D. Strandness is a 1974 graduate of Macalester College and was the president of the Minnesota Multi Housing Association in 2001.
728 Summit Avenue: Built in 1885. The building is a two story, 1757 square foot, two bedroom, one bathroom, two half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2002 for $465,000. The current owners of record of the property are Joey E. Gerdin and Gary M. Nies.
729 Summit Avenue: Built in 1984. The building is a two story, 2005 square foot, six room, two bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a basement garage. The property was last sold in 2005 for a purchase price of $375,000. The current owner of record of the property is Donald R. Boychuck. Donald Boychuk is the Chief Operating/Administrative Officer of Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. Planned Parenthood of Minnesota is an outgrowth of the movement begun by Margaret Sanger, who opened the world's first birth control clinic in violation of the Comstock laws, enacted in the 1880's, which prohibited the transportation of birth control devices or information through the mail, and was jailed. The Motherhood Protection League was established in Minnesota in 1928 and opened a birth control clinic in Minneapolis in 1931. St. Paul Maternal and Child Health Center was established in the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul in 1935, funded by the St. Paul Jewish Women's Council. In Northern Minnesota, the St. Louis County League for Planned Parenthood was established. The Motherhood Protection League of Rochester, Minnesota, also was established and the Olmstead County, Minnesota, Maternal Health Center opened. The Minnesota League for Planned Parenthood was created as a joint venture between the Planned Parenthood Leagues in Hennepin, Ramsey, Olmsted and St. Louis Counties in 1944. Planned Parenthood St. Paul opened a clinic in Selby-Dale area in 1963. In 1965, in Griswold v. Connecticut, the U. S. Supreme Court struck down a Connecticut law banning married people from getting contraception, saying the law infringes on their right to privacy and made birth control legal for married people in the United States as a privacy right. The Minnesota Legislature legalized birth control in 1965. Planned Parenthood of St. Paul provided services through a mobile unit to the St Paul Park Roosevelt Housing Project in 1966. Minnesota Citizen's Concerned for Life was incorporated in 1968. The Minneapolis and St. Paul Planned Parenthoods merged with Planned Parenthood Minnesota in 1971 and Dr. Jane Hodgson also became the only U. S. physician ever convicted for performing in-hospital abortion in Minnesota. In 1972, in Eisenstadt v. Baird, the U.S. Supreme Court found that the right to privacy extends to individuals and established the right of unmarried people to use contraceptives. In 1972, Planned Parenthood Minnesota merged with the Family Planning Clinics of St. Louis County, Inc. In 1973, in Roe v. Wade, the U. S. Supreme Court extended the right of privacy to include the ability of a woman to decide whether and when to have children and the ability of a woman and her doctor to make a decision to have an abortion. Planned Parenthood of Minnesota first offered abortion services in 1976 and picketing of its Highland Park building began. On Ash Wednesday, 1977, the Highland Park building was firebombed. In 1991, Planned Parenthood Minnesota was granted a court injunction prohibiting protesters from blocking entrances and exits to the Highland Park building. Arson at Planned Parenthood's Brainerd, Minnesota, clinic destroyed the clinic in 1994. In 1995, the Minnesota Supreme Court decided, in Doe v. Gomez that the Minnesota Constitution guarantees of privacy include a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy and also held that the State cannot provide funds for birth-related services and also prohibit the use of funds for abortion-related services without infringing on a woman's privacy right. In 2001, Sarah Stoesz was named the President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Minnesota/South Dakota and in 2004, Dr. Carol Ball was named the Medical Director for Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
734 Summit Avenue: Built in 2000. Unit 1 is a 1848 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided condominium/rowhouse, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2000 for $468,053, and which is currently owned by Lois K. Berens. Unit 2 is a 1848 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided condominium/rowhouse, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2000 for $499,000, which was previously owned by Carl M. Daquila and Dolores M. Daquila, and which is currently owned by Barbara Daquila. Unit 3 is a 1848 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided condominium/rowhouse, with a detached garage, and which is currently owned by the trustee of Barbara T. Anderson. Unit 4 is a 1848 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided condominium/rowhouse, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2000 for $519,000, and which is currently owned by Bonni Rodin.
735-739 Summit Avenue: Former First Church of Christ Scientist/River of Life Church; Built in 1913; Neoclassical/Classical Revival in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that the First Church of Christ, Scientist, was located at this address in 1914. The First Church of Christ Scientist congregation was first located in the Barteau Hotel during the period 1892-1896. The church met in several other buildings until 1913, when this church building was completed at an estimated cost of $70,000. The building is on the National register of Historic Places. Pastor Arnold P. Williams (1939-1998) was the founder of the church and Pastor Bettie Williams, his widow, is the current Senior Pastor of River of Life Christian Church. Pastor Bettie Williams worked in the mission fields in Nigeria, Belize, Guatemala, Rome, London, and a Canadian Indian Reservation and has earned a Doctorate Degree of Divinity from the Minnesota Graduate School of Theology. The current owner of record of the property is River of Life Ministries. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
749 Summit Avenue: Rush B. Wheeler and Harriet Wheeler/Jason W. Cooper II House, Built in 1888 (1904 according to the National Register of Historic Places and 1894 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Victorian in style; William H. Willcox and Clarence H. Johnston, architects. The building is a two story, 5826 square foot, seven bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, stone house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 1997 for $555,000. Construction of the house cost either $12,500 (Ernest R. Sandeen) or $22,000 (Paul Larson.) This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Rush B. Wheeler resided at this address from 1889 to 1895. The 1889 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Rush B. Wheeler and Miss Mellie Wheeler resided at this address. The 1891 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Rush B. Wheeler and Miss Mellie R. Clark resided at this address. The 1893 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Rush Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Clark, and Miss Millie R. Clark resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Rush B. Wheeler resided at this address in 1893. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Jason W. Cooper II resided at this address from 1902 to 1906 and that Peter Siems resided at this address from 1907 to 1976. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Josephine A. Siems (1855-1917,) the widowed mother of Chester P. Siems, who was born in Wisconsin to parents born in the United States and who died of chronic nephritis arteriosclerosis, resided at this address in 1917. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mrs. Peter Siems, Allan G. Siems, Miss Beatrice Sefton, and C. H. Siems all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Siems and Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Siems all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Claude H. Siems resided at this address. Peter Siems (1842-1917) lived at this address in 1914 and was involved with the Shepard, Siems, & Company. In 1934, Allan Gleason Siems, Claude Harris Siems, Irene O'Connor Siems, Kate Siems, Allen Siems, and Jane Siems resided at this address. The 1991 St. Paul's on-the-Hill Episcopal Church directory indicates that Julia Bergstrom, Lucas Bergstrom, and Katrina Bergstrom resided at this address. Rush Wheeler (1844-1930) was born in South Butler, New York, was the son of Orange Hill Wheeler and Eve Tucker Wheeler, graduated from Yale University in 1871, came to Minnesota in 1873, read the law in the law office of his brother, E. O. Wheeler, in Austin, Minnesota, and was admitted to the practice of law in 1876, moved to St. Paul in 1883, practiced real estate law and ran a real estate and loan business, was a director of the First National Bank of Austin, was the president of the Real Estate Exchange of St. Paul in 1894, was the treasurer of the Y.M.C.A., and was a director of the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce for 15 years. He also was the secretary, treasurer, and ultimately president of the Summit Avenue Improvement Association, an organization that was formed in 1887 to create a park-like boulevard for Summit Avenue, which was realized on the street west of Lexington Avenue. Rush Wheeler married Harriet S. Clark in 1876 and the couple had four children, Frost M. Wheeler, Cleora Clark Wheeler, Everett Wheeler, and Ross Wheeler. Cleora Wheeler (1882- ) was born in Austin, Minnesota. Allan Gleason Siems was a 1908 graduate of Yale University, was a member of the University Club and the St. Paul Athletic Club in 1934, and wintered at Miami Beach, Florida. The Claude Harris Siems and Irene O'Connor Siems family were members of the Minikahda Country Club, the Somerset Club, the White Bear Yacht Club, the Minneapolis Club, the University Club, and the Indian Creek Club in 1934, and wintered at Miami Beach, Florida. Peter Siems was associated with the Shepard, Siems, & Company of St. Paul. Claude H. Siems was a railroad contractor. Irene Siems wrote the music and lyrics to the songs "To the Red Cross" and "To the girls in the Red Cross canteen" in 1941 and 1942 respectively. Jason Walker Cooper (1843-1925,) the son of Ezra E. Cooper (1810-1885) and Maria Fanny Johnson Cooper (1818-1901,) was born in Champlain, Clinton County, New York/Cooperstown, New York, served in the 34th New York Regiment in the American Civil War, moved to Minnesota in 1864, initially resided in Minneapolis, fathered a daughter, Ruth Helen Cooper, subsequently resided in St. Paul, was in business with Chauncey W. Griggs, C. Milton Griggs, and David C. Shepard, importers and wholesale grocers, in 1889, was the second vice president of Griggs, Cooper & Company, and died in Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California. Rush B. Wheeler ( -1930) and Allan Gleason Siems ( -1943) both died in Ramsey County. Claude Henry Siems (1865-1956) was born outside of Minnesota and died in Hennepin County. Irene O'Connor Siems (1889-1976) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Olson, and died in Ramsey County. Cleora Clark Wheeler (1882-1980) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Clark, and died in Ramsey County. Ross Wheeler ( -1948) died in Hennepin County. Everett Clark Wheeler (1884-1893,) who died of diabetes, was the son of Rush B. Wheeler. The previous owner of record of the property was Avex Lowry Limited Partnership, located in Dallas, Texas, and the current owner of record of the property is John W. Knapp, located in Dallas, Texas. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.] [See note on Rush Wheeler and Cleora Wheeler for 1376 Summit Avenue] [See the note for the Griggs, Cooper & Company for 901 Euclid Street.]
755 Summit Avenue: The property is a tax exempt vacant lot. The former house at this address was built in 1902 and was razed in 1974 according to the Minnesota Historical Society. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Henry E. Hutchings resided at this address from 1903 to 1909. The 1918 city directory indicates that the residents at this address were Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Cole, Dr. Wallace Cole, Miss Alice Rose, and Miss Allie Neely. Wallace Cole was a World War I veteran who resided at this address in 1919. The 1920 city directory indicates that Hayden S. Cole, the president of the Investment Service Company, resided at this address and Wallace H. Hayden, a physician who officed at the Lowry Building, boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Cole resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Haydn S. Cole, a lawyer who officed at the Endicott Building, and his wife, Mary M. Cole, resided at this address. In 1934, Colonel Hayden S. Cole and Maybelle Profer Cole resided at this address. Colonel Hayden S. Cole graduated from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point in 1885. Hayden S. Cole was the son of William Henry Cole, a physician in Henry county, Illinois, and was the grandson of Dr. C. H. Cole, a Civil War veteran who resided in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Dr. C. H. Cole (1818- ) was a son of John and Catherine Letts Cole, was born in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, married Sylvan Waller in 1837, graduated from the Geneva Medical College in 1848, and was a surgeon of the 172nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. The current owner of record of the property is the House of Hope Presbyterian Church, located at 797 Summit Avenue.
760 Summit Avenue: P. J. Bowlin House. This was the site of the former Patrick J. Bowlin house, designed by Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., constructed in 1892, and razed in 1938. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Patrick J. Bowlin resided at this address from 1893 to 1931. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mrs. H. C. Smith, P. J. Bowlin, his daughter, and H. R. Smith all resided at this address. Harold R. Smith was a World War I veteran who resided at this address in 1919. The 1920 city directory indicates that Patrick J. Bowlin, the president of the Bowlin Realty Company, resided at this address. The 1920 city directory also indicates that Harold R. Smith was a salesman and boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mrs. Nannie Bowlin, Mrs. H. C. Smith, and Mrs. H. R. Smith all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Nannie L. Bowlin, secretary of the Bowlin Realty Company, resided at this address. Frank J. Bowlin was the president of the Bowlin Realty Compamy in 1930 and resided at 1617 Summit Avenue. Robert J. Bowlin (1906-1963) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Hankel, and died in Ramsey County. Patrick Bowlin (1830-1905) was born in Ireland and died in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Harold R. Smith (1892-1966) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Bowlin, and died in Ramsey County. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
761 Summit Avenue: Gebhard Bohn and Lena Bohn House/Gechart Bohn House; Built in 1883 (1904 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival/Beaux Arts/Renaissance Revival in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect; Lauer Brothers (Laner Brothers according to the National Register of Historic Places,) builder. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Gebhard Bohn resided at this address from 1905 to 1944. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Gebhard Bohn and their daughter resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Gebhard Bohn, the president of the Flaxlinum Insulating Company, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Gebhard Bohn resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Lena Bohn, the widow of Gebhard Bohn, resided at this address. In 1934, Lena Nocken Bohn, the widow of Gebhard Bohn, resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that John Frederick Bushnell, who attended the school from 1931 until 1934 and from 1935 until 1938 and attended Dartmouth College, resided at this address. Gebhard Bohn (1854-1924) was born in Germany, was the son of Adam and Elizabeth Bohn, came to Minnesota in 1872, married Lena Nockin of Wisconsin in 1875, ran a retail lumber business in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, in 1877, shifted from the sash and trim lumber business in 1897-1899, and eventually founded the White Enamel Refrigerator Company. The 1899 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Gebhard Bohn and their daughter resided at 376 Bates Avenue. Gebhard Bohn was the president of the White Enamel Refrigerator Company, which, after being absorbed with other companies, developed into the Whirlpool Corporation. Gebhard Bohn and Lena Bohn had five children, Gebhard C. Bohn (1878- ,) vice president of the White Enamel Refrigerator Company, Cora Bohn (Mrs. William S.) Chase, Ida Bohn, William Bohn, and Anna Bohn. Gebhard Bohn eventually moved to Lake Minnetonka. Arthur Richardson Nichols (1880-1970) was a landscape architect who designed the grounds for Gedhard Bohn's Minnetonka house. The house was built for $20,000 (Sandeen and Larson.) Gebhard C. Bohn (1908-1982) was born in Minnesota and died in Hennepin County. Cora M. Chase (1879-1974) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Nockin, and died in Hennepin County. Ida Bohn ( -1939) died in Winona County, Minnesota, and Ida Bohn ( -1947) died in Wilkin County, Minnesota. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
768 Summit Avenue: Hermann Kretz and Helen Kretz House; Built in 1900 (1898 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Victorian in style; Hermann Kretz, architect. The building is a two story, 3523 square foot, five bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, stone house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2000 for $565,000. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Kretz and Miss Helen E. Kretz all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Herman Kretz resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Hermann Kretz, an architect with an office at the Commerce Building, and his wife, Helen B. Kretz, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The house was built for $11,000. Hermann Kretz was the original owner and occupant of this house. Kretz and his wife lived in this house at least until 1912. The current owners of record of the property are Joseph P. Beckman and Kathleen R. Beckman. [See note on Kretz for 579 Summit Avenue.]
775-795 Summit Avenue: House of Hope Presbyterian Church; Built in 1903 (1913 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) English Perpendicular/Gothic Revival in style; Ralph Adams Cram of the architectural firm Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, a Boston and New York-based firm, architect. The 2.51 acre site contains three buildings, the two story, 24642 square foot, church, a three story, 7596 square foot, building that was built in 1903, and a two story, 49584 square foot, building that was built in 1958. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that William Fletcher Graves (1850-1911,) the husband of Belle Graves, who was born in Vermont to parents who were born in the United States and who died of nephritis-arteriosclerosis, resided at 779 Summit Avenue in 1911. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Cadwell and H. W. Cadwell all resided at this address. The 1922 Who's Who in Finance and Banking indicates that James Lynn Mitchell (1884- ,) the son of John Lamb Mitchell and Harriet Raymond Mitchell, who graduated from Yale University in 1907, who was president and a director of the Capital National Bank of St. Paul, who was vice president and a director of the Capital Trust and Savings Bank, who was vice president and a director of the St. Paul Electric Company, who was a director of Noyes Brothers & Cutler, who was a member of the Executive Committee of the Ramsey County Liberty Loan Campaign, who was a director of the St. Paul YMCA, who was a member of the University Club, who was a member of the Minnesota Club, who was a member of the White Bear Yacht Club, who was a member of the Somerset Club, who was a member of the Town & Country Club, and who was a member of the St. Paul Athletic Club, resided at 779 Summit Avenue. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that C. Arnold Kalman (1919- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1929 until 1937, and who was a 1941 graduate of the Massachussets Institute of Technology, resided at this address. When the Territory of Minnesota was organized in 1849, a young missionary from Philadelphia, the Reverend Edward Duffield Neill, set out to form its first Presbyterian congregations. Reverend Neill founded the First Presbyterian Church in downtown St. Paul in 1849, and he started a second congregation on Christmas Eve, 1855, and named it "House of Hope." Neill was the author of A Concise History of the State of Minnesota (1887,) of The History of Minnesota (1858,) of Terra Mariae, or, Threads of Maryland Colonial History (1868,) of The Fairfaxes of England and America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1868,) Of History of the Virginia Company of London (1869,) of The Founders of Maryland as Portrayed in Manuscripts, Provinical Records and Early Documents (1876,) of Minnesota Explorers and Pioneers from A.D. 1659 to A.D. 1858 (1881,) of Virginia Vetusta, during the Reign of James the First (1885,) and of Virginia Carolorum: the Colony under the Rule of Charles the First and Second, A. D. 1625-A. D. 1685 (1886.) Neill was a student at Amherst and Andover (1842-1844,) a Presbyterian home missionary in Illinois (1847-1848,) a Presbyterian minister in St. Paul, Minnesota (1849-1860,) the founder of churches in Minnesota, state superintendent of education and chancellor of the University of Minnesota (1858-1861,) chaplain of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry and of the Philadelphia hospitals (1861-1864,) American consul at Dublin, Ireland (1869-1871,) and president of and professor at Macalester College (1873-1893.) Neill also was an historian of Minnesota and of colonial America, especially Virginia and Maryland. In 1859, Neill gave a series of evening lectures on the life of David at the Chapel of the House of Hope, including a lecture entitled "Michal, or, Fashionable dancing: an undignified amusement for a Christian." According to the 1910 federal census, the House of Hope Presbyterian Church was located on Fifth Street at the northwest corner with Exchange Street and had a membership of 997. In 1910, the Reverend H. C. Swearingen (1869-1932) was the pastor of the church and Charles P. Noyes was the president of the board of trustees of the church. In 1910, the House of Hope Presbyterian Church also had established, in 1895, the House of Hope Presbyterian Chapel as a mission of the parent church on Bradley Street at the northwest corner with Partridge Street, with a membership of 180, and with the Reverend R. R. Otis as pastor. The two churches, established by Reverend Edward Duffield Neill, merged under the direction of Dr. Henry Chapman Swearingen in 1914, who oversaw the construction of the existing church building for the new congregation. The church was built for about $250,000. Dr. Swearingen represented the high mark in personality and leadership, serving as moderator of the national church while ministering in St. Paul. Other leaders in church history include Irving Adams West, who served between 1943 and 1969, and Calvin Whitefield Didier, who served between 1969 and 1993. Reverend Calvin Didier officiated at the late Senator Hubert Humphrey's funeral in 1978. The current pastor is Linda C. Loving. The House of Hope has a congregation of 1400 members and is part of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) The Swearingen burial plot at Oakland Cemetery includes the graves of Henry Chapman Swearingen D.D., L.D.D., (1869-1932,) Henry Chapman Swearingen, Jr., (1908-1922,) and Belle Comin Swearingen ( -1946.) Henry C. Swearingen (1908-1922) attended St. Paul Academy from 1919 until 1922. Charles Phelps Noyes resided at 235 Summit Avenue. In 1941, James Lynn Mitchell had left the Capital National Bank of St. Paul and was a member of the New York Stock Exchange. James Lynn Mitchell married Ruth Brundred (1887- ,) a daughter of Benjamin F. Brundred (1849-1914) and Elizabeth Dilworth Loomis Brundred, in Oil City, Pennsylvania, in 1908 and the couple had four children, Ruth Mitchell (1909- ,) Benjamin Brundred Mitchell (1912- ,) Mary Lida Mitchell (1916- ,) and Lois Mitchell. Daniel Rogers Noyes (1836-1908,) Charles Henry Bigelow (1835-1911,) Herman Knox Taylor (1830-1911,) and Robert Alexander Kirk (1837-1913) were elders in the House of Hope Presbyterian Church before World War I. Daniel Rogers Noyes (1836-1908) was born in Lyme, Connecticut, moved to Minnesota in 1868, settled in St. Paul, was a founder of Noyes Brothers & Cutler, a wholesale drug supply company, with Charles P. Noyes, Winthrop G. Noyes, and Edward H. Cutler, in 1879, resided at 92 College Avenue, supported philanthropic work, was the founder and president of the St. Paul Relief Association, and died in St. Paul. Winthrop Gilman Noyes (1869-1931) was the son of Daniel R. Noyes, was a partner with Edward H. Cutler in Noyes Brothers & Cutler, was active in the Minnesota State Pharmaceutical Association in 1901, and was the chairman of the building committee of the Young Men's Christian Association. In 1896, Winthrop G. Noyes returned from Genoa, Italy, to New york on the Werra. The Noyes Prizes at Carlton College were founded in 1908 by the Daniel R. Noyes. Daniel Rogers Noyes, the son of Daniel Rogers Noyes and Phoebe Griffin Lord Noyes, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of grandfather Thomas Noyes, a First Lieutenant in Lippit's Rhode Island Regiment, and great grandfather Joseph Noyes, a Colonel in the First Kings County Rhode Island Militia, during the Revolutionary War. Winthrop S. Gilman Noyes, the son of Daniel Rogers Noyes and Helen Abia Gilman Noyes, the grandson of Daniel Rogers Noyes and Phoebe Griffin Lord Noyes and of Winthrop S. Gilman and Abbia Swift Lippincott Gilman, and the great grandson of Benjamin Ives Gilman and Hannah Robbins Gilman, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great grandfather Thomas Noyes, a First Lieutenant in Lippit's Rhode Island Regiment, and of great grandfathers Joseph Noyes, a Colonel in the First Kings County Rhode Island Militia, and Joseph Gilman, Chairman of the Exeter, New Hampshire, Committtee of Safety, during the Revolutionary War. Charles Henry Bigelow was born in Easton, New York, married Alda Wood Lyman in 1859 in Middlefield, Minnesota, was engaged in relief activities after the Moose Lake, Minnesota fire of 1918, and was president of Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk & Co. The couple had one child, Charles Henry Bigelow, II (1866-1945,) who was born in St. Paul, was educated at Williams College (1883-1887,) first married Florence Fairchild at St. Paul in 1896, and the couple had one son, Donald Bigelow (1896-1974,) and subsequently married Allison McKibbin Bigelow (1881-1970,) the daughter of businessman Joseph McKibbin. Charles H. Bigelow and Frederic R. Bigelow were associated with the St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company. Robert Alexander Kirk was associated with the Citizens' Association of St. Paul, a local unit of the Citizens' Industrial Association of America, which was organized after the 1902 anthracite coal strike to attempt to curb the power of labor unions and to find ways to resist strikes and boycotts. The gothic surroundings of the sanctuary house the massive C. B. Fisk organ, Opus 78, with 97 ranks of pipes and 63 stops. In 1879, Joseph McKibbin, a bookkeeper employed by Gordon & Ferguson, boarded at 92 12th Street. Henry C. Swearingen ( -1952) died in Anoka County, Minnesota. Daniel R. Noyes ( -1908,) Robert Alexander Kirk ( -1913,) Alida W. Bigelow ( -1923,) Edward Hutchins Cutler ( -1935,) Joseph McKibbin ( -1941,) Charles Henry Bigelow ( -1943,) and Frederic Russell Bigelow ( -1946) all died in Ramsey County. Florence F. Bigelow (1867-1905) was born in the United States and died in Ramsey County. Allison McKibbin Bigelow (1881-1970) was born in Minnesota, had a mother with a maiden name of Dorsey, and died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is the House of Hope Presbyterian Church.
776 Summit Avenue: 776 Summit Avenue; Built in 1901 (1891 according to the National Register of Historic Places and 1905 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Victorian/Mildly Colonial in style; J. W. Stevens, architect. The building is a two story, 2944 square foot, six bedroom, four bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. The owner of the house was once listed as Mrs. C. G. McCarthy. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Angus McLeod (1860-1924,) the husband of Jean S. McLeod, who was born in Canada to parents born in Canada and who died of coronary embolism, resided at this address in 1924. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Angus McLeod and their daughter resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Jean S. McLeod, the widow of Angus McLeod, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Timothy J. McCarty once lived at this address. McCarty was a ticket clerk for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, & Omaha Railway. The house was constructed for $6,000. In 1879, Angus McLeod, a laborer employed by the St. Paul & Duluth RailRoad, resided at 11 Maria Avenue. Angus McLeod lived at this address in 1914. Timothy J. McCarty ( -1929) died in Dakota County. Angus McLeod (1868-1955) was born outside of Minnesota and died in St. Louis County, Minnesota. The Tomah & Saint Croix Railway was built in 1865 and became the West Wisconsin RailRoad in 1869. In 1879, the North Wisconsin Railway was built. In 1880, The North Wisconsin Railway became part of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway, or the "Omaha." In 1883, the West Wisconsin RailRoad also was absorbed by the Omaha, which was first controlled as a separate company until 1957, was then acquired by the Chicago & Northwestern RailRoad, and is now a part of the Union Pacific RailRoad. The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha RailRoad had its shops at Randolph and Duke Streets in St. Paul. The current owner of record of the property is Scott Martin Hayman. Scott Hayman is a member of the Minnesota Sustainable Communities Network. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Mitchell resided at the former nearby 779 Summit Avenue. The 1930 city directory indicates that Charles O. Kalman resided at the former 779 Summit Avenue. [See note on Stevens for 335 Summit Avenue.]
780 Summit Avenue: 780 Summit Avenue; Built in 1909 (1910 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival/Colonial Revival in style; __?__ Sunburg, architect. The building is a two story, 3744 square foot, eight bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2003 for $890,000. The house was built at a cost of $8,500 for owner Clarence A. Waldon. The 1918 city directory indicates that Rev. and Mrs. H. C. Swearingen and J. Ross Moore all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Rev. and Mrs. H. C. Swearingen resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Rev. H. C. Swearingen, pastor of House of Hope Presbyterian Church, his wife, Belle Swearingen, and Isabel Swearingen, a stenographer, all resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Waldon apparently did not live in the house, but owned a home in Minneapolis. According to the 1910 federal census, the pastor of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church, Reverend H. C. Swearingen, resided at this address. In 1927, the house was owned by the House of Hope Presbyterian Church and functioned as a pastor's residence. Rev. Henry Chapman Swearingen, D.D., LL.D., chaired a special commission for the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in 1925, known as the Swearingen Commission, to promote purity and peace within the Church. There also was a Swearingen Commission on ordination disputes in 1927. A letter from Henry Chapman Swearingen to Amos William Butler, a zoologist, archaeologist, mental health expert, and sociologist from Indiana, is in the Butler archive at the University of Indiana. Henry Chapman Swearingen was a trustee of Macalester College. Henry Chapman Swearingen had a reputation of being a moderate church official. Clarence A. Waldon ( -1952) died in Hennepin County. Henry C. Swearingen ( -1952) died in Anoka County, Minnesota. The most recent sale of the property occurred in 2005 and the sale price was $995,000. The previous owners of record of the property were Dana A. Berg and David P. Berg and the current owners of record of the property are Kathryn J. Bergstrom and Paul W. Bergstrom. Paul W. Bergstrom is a plaintiff personal injury and wrongful death attorney and is a member of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Association of Matrimonial Lawyers. Katie Bergstrom and Paul Bergstrom are the parents of Henry Bergstrom, a French immersion school student in Independent School District No. 625, St. Paul.
786 Summit Avenue: Ella A. Sanders House/Mrs. J. H. Saunders House; Built in 1909 (1905 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival/Colonial Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The building is a two story, 3656 square foot, eight bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 1997 for $300,000. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mrs. J. H. Sanders and her daughter resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Finkelstein and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Friedman all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Fannie Finkelstein, the widow of Lewis Finkelstein, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The house was built for J. T. Landers. Ella A. Sanders was the widow of Joshua H. Sanders. The house was constructed for $14,000. Joshua Sanders was the president of the Northwestern Lime Company and resided at 271 Summit Avenue in 1882. Ella Augusta Sanders ( -1934) died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Ann M. O'Callaghan. [See note on Lockwood for 726 Summit Avenue.]
790 Summit Avenue: J. G. Hammond House; Built in 1899 (1905 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival/Tudor Revival/Colonial Revival in style. The building is a two story, 3994 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, brick house. The house was owned by James G. Hammond ( -1912.) The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Terrett and their daughter resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brockman and G. H. Terrett all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Frederic G. Dorety, vice president and general counsel for the Great Northern RailRoad, and Lawrence G. Dorety, a lawyer, resided at this address. James G. Hammond was president of the Dakota-Manitoba Land Company, a real estate investment firm. James G. Hammond owned the house for investment purposes. He lived at 327 Prior Avenue from at least 1906 until his death. The current owner of record of the property is Marianne Costanzi, located at Landers, California. Marianne Costanzi was a financial supporter of the Cathedral of St. Paul and of the Summit Hill Association in 2006.
796 Summit Avenue: Frank Dodson House ; Built in 1901 (1889 according to the National Register of Historic Places and 1911 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Colonial Revival in style. The building is a two story, 3994 square foot, eight bedroom, three bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 1996 for $346,000. This house and the adjacent house are nearly mirror images of each other, but each has different decorative details and building materials, giving each a distinctive appearance. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Frank Dodson resided at this address in 1905. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wolfer and C. R. Wolfer all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Lilly resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Richard C. Lilly, the president of the First National Bank of St. Paul, and his wife, Rachel C. Lilly, resided at this address. In 1934, Richard C. Lilly, Rachel Cunningham Lilly, John Lilly, and David Lilly resided at this address. The house was built for Frank Dodson. The original owner of this house was Jason W. Cooper, the Second Vice President of Griggs, Cooper, & Company, a wholesale grocery company. Cooper lived at 749 Summit Avenue. Frank Dodson lived at this address in 1914. The Lilly family were members of the Minikahda Country Club, the Somerset Club, the White Bear Yacht Club, and the Women's City Club of St. Paul in 1934. In 1929, Richard C. Lilly led a group of Twin Cities businessmen in a purchase Northwest Airways from its founder, Colonel Lewis Hotchkiss Brittin (1877-1952,) and the original Michigan investor group and Lilly was named president. Richard C. Lilly was a board member of the Merrick House school, now the Christ Child School for Exceptional Children, and helped the school move to the Summit Avenue site in 1950. Richard C. Lilly was the president of Merchant's National Bank of St. Paul and, in 1920, was a member of the Board of Directors of the Citizen's Alliance of Ramsey & Dakota Counties with Charles W. Ames of the Public Safety Commission, E. S. Warner, one of the founders of the Minnesota Employer's Association, M. W. Waldorf of Waldorf Paper Products Co., W. O. Washburn of American Hoist & Derrick Co., C.G. Roth of the St. Paul Hotel, J. G. Ordway of the Crane Co. of Minnesota, Frederick R. Bigelow of St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance, Leslie Gedney of Gedney Pickles, Cyrus P. Brown, President of First National Bank of St. Paul, and W. P. Kenny of the Great Northern Railway. A group of recovering alcoholic St. Paul businessmen, led by banker Richard Lilly, purchased a 217-acre farm called "Hazelden" in Chisago County through Lilly's Coyle Foundation. Lilly had an auto mishap while he was under the influence of alcohol which sent him over the St. Paul High Bridge into a sand-filled barge below. Richard Lilly lived, stopped drinking, and incorporated Hazelden in 1949, with himself as president. Will Oppenheimer, of the Oppenheimer Law Firm, and Richard Lilly were named as the executors of Herbert Bigelow's estate in 1933 and they selected Charlie Ward to run the Brown & Bigelow Company. In 1935, Richard Lilly and Rachel Lilly created a trust for the benefit of their son, John Cunningham Lilly. In 1997, the potential survivors of John C. Lilly unsuccessfully challenged distributions of trust principal that occurred between 1986 and 1994 in the form of payments to John Lilly and loans to the remainder beneficiaries before the Minnesota Court of Appeals in In the Matter of the Trust Created by Richard C. Lilly and Rachel C. Lilly. John Cunningham Lilly, B.Sc., M.D., (1915-2001) was born in St. Paul, the son of Richard C. Lilly and Rachel C. Lilly, graduated in 1933 from the St. Paul Academy, in 1938 from the California Institute of Technology, in 1940 from the Dartmouth Medical School, and in 1942 from the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, was a professor of Medical Physics and of Experimental Neurology at the Department of Biophysics and Medical Physics (Eldridge Reeves Johnson Foundation) of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine from 1942 to 1956, was the Senior Surgeon Grade of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Corps from 1953 to 1958, was Section Chief of the Section on Cortical Integration in the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness and in the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, from 1953 to 1958, was Founder and Director of the Communications Research Institute at Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, and Miami, Florida, from 1959 to 1968, was Research Career Award Fellow at the National Institiute of Mental Health from 1962 to 1967, was Group Leader and Associate in Residence at the Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California, from 1969 to 1971, and was Treasurer of Human Software, Inc., of Malibu, California, from 1973 to 2001. Richard C. Lilly ( -1928) and Frank Dodson ( -1928) both died in Ramsey County. Rachel Cunningham Lilly ( -1953) died in Dakota County, Minnesota. The current owners of record of the property are Brenda K. Hardy and James B. Hardy. The 1930 city directory indicates that the House of Hope Presbyterian Church was located at the former 797 Summit Avenue West.
796 Summit Avenue: The property contains three buildings, with the two story, 49,584 square foot, building #1 built in 1958, with the three story, 7,596 square foot, building #2 built in 1904, and the two story, 24,642 square foot, building #3 built in 1913. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Myles H. Johns (1917- ,) who was born in Chicago, who attended the school from 1928 until 1937, who was a 1941 graduate of Washington University of St. Louis, Missouri, who married Page Goggin in St. Louis in 1939, and who was employed as the national advertising solicitor by the St. Paul Dispatch, resided at this address. The current owner of the property is the House of Hope Presbyterian Church.
807 Summit Avenue: ;Samuel Dittenhofer and Madeline Dittenhofer House, Built in 1900 (1906 according to Sandeen; 1906-1908 and 1911 addition, according to Larson;) Tudor Villa/Tudor Revival in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect. The three story, 11317 square foot, structure is now a commercial building and was last sold in 1999 with a sale price of $825,000. The house was built at a cost of $30,000 (Sandeen; $45,000 plus $2,000 for the addition according to Larson). This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The house was built by Jacob Dittenhofer, who was one of the founders of the Golden Rule Department Store, as a wedding gift for his son, Samuel Dittenhofer, and his bride, 17 year old Madeline Lang. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Samuel W. Dittenhofer resided at this address from 1908. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Dittenhofer resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Samuel W. Dittenhofer, the treasurer of the Golden Rule, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Dittenhofer resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Samuel W. Dittenhofer, the chairman of the board of the Golden Rule Department Store and vice president of the Dittenhofer Realty Company, his wife, Madeline Dittenhofer, and S. William Dittenhofer, a clerk employed by Northwest Airways, Inc., resided at this address. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that the Christian Brothers Provincialate was located at this address from 1967. Samuel Dittenhofer, Madeline Dittenhofer, and their children, Elinor Dittenhofer and Samuel William Dittenhofer ( -1981), lived in the house until 1936. In 1934, Samuel Dittenhofer and Madeline Lane Dittenhofer resided at this address and were members of the Minikahda Country Club. The Dittenhofers were traveling in Europe when World War II broke out and, since Samuel Dittenhofer was ill, they remained in Paris during the occupation. Samuel Dittenhofer died in Paris in 1952 and Madeline Dittenhofer returned to St. Paul, but never lived in this house. In 1966, Madeline Dittenhofer presented the house and many of its furnishings to the Christian Brothers Provincialate. Since the house had been vacant for over 30 years, it needed major renovation. The drawing room was refurbished by John O'Brien Kessler III. The house is reported to be haunted. Johnston also designed a garage for the property, in 1909, at a cost of $4,000. Samuel William Dittenhofer married Mary Hague Babson in 1948 and the couple had one child, Samuel William Dittenhofer (1951- .) Mary Hague Babson Dittenhofer had been married previously, to Dr. Adam Borden Polson, in Oregon, and the Polsons had two sons, Peter Gorham Polson (1938- ) and Alexander McCleen Polson (1941- .) Another Picture of the House The current owners of record of the property are Sandra K. Savik and Joseph H. Tashjian. Joseph H. Tashjian and Sandra Kay Savik, a statistician at the University of Minnesota, were contributors to the John Kerry for President campaign in 2004. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
808 Summit Avenue: Horace E. Thompson House; Built in 1903 (1887 according to the National Register of Historic Places and 1908 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Renaissance Revival in style; H. I. Wicks of the architectural firm Green & Wicks of Buffalo, New York, architect. The house was constructed for a cost of $35,000. Unit 1 is a 9684 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, three half-bathroom, brick condominium, which was last sold in 2002 and was sold for $945,000, and which is currently owned by Bryan J. Lynn. Unit 2 is a 5316 square foot, four bedroom, three bathroom, brick condominium, which was last sold in 1998 for a sale price of $298,000, which was previously owned by Susan M. Corridoni and Justin H. Kelly, and which is currently owned by Adam Ehrmantraut and Mary M. McMahon. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Horace E. Thompson resided at this address from 1905 to 1919 and that Charles A. Weyerhaeuser resided at this address from 1920 to 1942. The 1918 city directory indicates that H. E. Thompson and his daughter resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Horace E. Thompson (1854-1919,) who was born in Georgia to parents who were born in the United States and who died of cancer of the thigh, resided at this address in 1919. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Maud M. Weyerhaeuser, the widow of Charles A. Weyerhauser, resided at this address and that Benjamin P. Langenbrunner, a houseman employed by Maud M. Weyerhaeuser, resided at the rear. In 1934, Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser, the widow of Charles A. Weyerhaeuser, resided at this address and was a member of the Somerset Club, the Schubert Club, the Minikahda Country Club, and the Women's City Club of St. Paul. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Carl A. Weyerhaeuser, who attended the school in 1913 and who garduated from Harvard University in 1923, resided at this address. Horace Thompson (1827-1880) was born in Vermont, the son of Amos Thompson and Nancy Thompson of Poultney, Vermont, moved first to Georgia, then moved to Minnesota in 1860, and established Thompson Brothers Banking Company together with his brother, James Egbert Thompson (1823-1870), which eventually became the First National Bank of St. Paul, where he became the president in 1870. He was an incorporator and director of the St. Paul & Sioux City RailRoad, president of the Hudson & River Falls RailRoad, president of the Worthington & Sioux Falls RailRoad, treasurer of the Stillwater & Taylors Falls RailRoad, treasurer of the Chippewa Falls RailRoad, and treasurer of the St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company. Horace Thompson also was the chair of the building committee of the First Baptist Church. Horace Thompson died in New York City. In Georgia, Horace Thompson married Carrie Scarborough Thompson, the daughter of Judge and Mrs. James Jackson Scarborough of Americus, Georgia, and the Thompsons had a son, Horace E. Thompson (1855-1919.) Horace E. Thompson managed land in Minnesota and Iowa. Horace Thompson was the uncle and James E. Thompson was the father of Lena Burton Thompson Clarke (1855- ,) the wife of Francis Byron Clarke (1839-1911,) who was the traffic manager of the Great Northern Railway and then the president of the Spokane, Portland, & Seattle Railway. In 1898, Francis Byron Clarke was the general traffic manager of the Northern Steamship Company, which was incorporated in 1888 by James J. Hill, allowing four Eastern railroad lines to became directly connected with the Great Northern railroad, which runs from Duluth, Minnesota, to Everett, Washington, and Seattle, Washington, on the Pacific coast, and forming a closely connected throughway for freight from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific. Francis Byron Clarke (1839-1911) was born in Madison County, New York, settled in St. Paul in 1871, was employed by the West Wisconsin Railway Company, was the general manager of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway in 1880, married Lena B. Thompson (1855- ) in St. Paul in 1880, was the traffic manager of the Great Northern RailRoad, was elected a life member of the Minnesota Historical Society in 1882, was a law firm partner with James Cormican (1855-1931) in 1901, moved to Oregon in 1905, and died in Portland, Oregon. Lena B. Thompson Clarke and Francis Byron Clarke had two children, James Egbert Clarke (1878- ) and Francis Bryon Clarke (1880- .) Lena Clarke participated in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and was a member of the Board of Lady Managers of the Congress of Women that was held in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Parker Paine was the founder of the bank that became the First National Bank of St. Paul in 1853. James S. Thompson was a World War I veteran who resided at this address in 1919. Frances Maud Moon married Charles A. Weyerhaeuser in 1898 in Duluth, Minnesota, initially lived in Little Falls, Minnesota, and the Weyerhaeusers had two children, Carl Weyerhaeuser (1901-1996) and Sarah Maud Weyerhaeuser. Charles Augustus Weyerhaeuser died in Bombay, India, in 1930, and Frances Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Sanborn, well known as a soprano soloist, died in 1965. Minnesota Public Radio's St. Paul Sunday program, with Bill McGlaughlin, is produced in the Maud Moon Weyerhauser Studio, known informally as "Studio M," a spacious wood-floored room with a wall of 20-foot-tall windows looking out at St. Paul's cathedral district. Carl Weyerhaeuser was a student at Hotchkiss, a private school in Lakeville, Connecticut, graduated from Harvard University in 1923, with a BFA degree, married Edith Greenleaf Weyerhaeuser, was the chairman of the board of trustees of the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Massachussetts, where he donated his collection of American paintings, Asian art and Shaker furniture to the museum, contributed to the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, was a founding member of Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachussetts, was elected a fellow at the Forest History Society, and was a member of the Harvard Club, the University Club in Boston, the Country Club of Brookline, the Duxbury Yacht Club, and the Milton Hoosic Club. Carl Weyerhaeuser and Edith Greenleaf Weyerhaeuser had five children, Charles Weyerhaeuser, Robert Weyerhaeuser, Henry Weyerhaeuser, Elizabeth Weyerhaeuser, and Carrie Weyerhaeuser. Sarah Maud Weyerhaeuser married Robert Sivertsen. Horace E. Thompson ( -1919) died in Ramsey County. H. I. Wicks was an exception as an architect, since only a handful of houses on Summit Avenue were designed by out-of-state architects. [See note on the Great Northern RailRoad for 280 Maple Street.] [See note on the Spokane, Portland & Seattle RailRoad for 772 West Linwood Avenue.]
818 Summit Avenue: Frank W. Hurty House; Built in 1916; Jacobethan/Tudor Revival in style; Olson and Erickson, architects. The building is a two story, 3267 square foot, five bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which last sold in 1992 for $285,000. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Hurty, Mrs. Julia Movery, and W. B. Movery all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Frank W. Hurty, associated with the Hackett Gates Hurty Company, and his wife, Clara Hurty, resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that John H. Burr (1907- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1917 until 1921, who graduated from Princeton University in 1928, and who was employed by Waldorf Paper Company, and John Humbird Burr, Jr. (1932- ,) who attended the school from 1945 until 1950 and who attended Williams College, both resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Frank W. Hurty was the vice president of Hackett, Gates & Hurty Company, which was a wholesale hardware firm. John H. Burr married Elizabeth Gifford in Tarrytown, New York, in 1928 and the couple had three children, Jane Burr (1929- ,) John H. Burr, Jr. (1932- ,) and George Burr (1935- .) Frank Walter Hurty ( -1939) died in Ramsey County. The house was built for $10,000. The most recent sale of the property occurred in 2006 and the sale price was $1,745,000. The previous owner of record of the property was the trustee of Loren V. Forrester and the current owners of the property are Carole Schram and Lee Schram. The 1887 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. George C. Eddings and Mrs. P. L. C. Van Vieck all resided at the former nearby 819 Summit Avenue.
821 Summit Avenue: Charles L. Johnston House; Built in 1910 (1910 according to Sandeen and to the Minnesota Historical Society, 1892 according to the National Register of Historic Places, and 1906 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) mildly Colonial Revival/Gothic Revival/Prairie Style in style; J. Walter Stevens, architect. The building is a two story, 7010 square foot, six bedroom, four bathroom, one half-bathroom, stone house, with a detached garage. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Charles L. Johnston resided at this address from 1911 to 1944. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Edna Scribner (1839-1918,) the widowed mother of Mrs. Charles Johnston, who was born in Ohio to parents who were born in the United States and who died of angino-pectoris, resided at this address in 1918. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Johnston and Mrs. E. E. Scribner all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Johnston resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Charles L. Johnston, the president of the D. S. B. Johnston Land Company, and his wife, Jane S. Johnston, resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Peter Waller Anson, who attended the school from 1938 until 1945, attended Princeton University, served in the U. S. Navy as a Fireman 2nd Class from 1945 until 1946, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Charles Johnston was the vice president of the D. S. E. Johnston Land Company and A. D. S. Johnston was the secretary of the D. S. E. Johnston Land Company in 1905. The house was built for $50,000. Charles L. Johnston, the son of Daniel S. B. Johnston and Hannah Coffin Stanton Johnston and the grandson of Levi Johnston and Evelina Buck Johnston, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great grandfather William Johnston, a Captain in the Second New York Artillery during the Revolutionary War. Daniel S. B. Johnston (1832-1914) was born in South Bainbridge/Afton, New York, was educated at the Delaware Literary Institute of Franklin, New York, moved to Galena, Illinois, taught school from 1849 until 1855, moved to Minnesota in 1855, opened a school in St. Anthony (now Minneapolis,) Minnesota, was a partner in a real estate enterprise, founding Breckenridge, Minnesota, with George F. Brott, J. W. Prentiss, J. C. Moulton, and E. DeMortimer, became half-owner of the St. Anthony Express with C. H. Slocum, was a bookkeeper employed by Orrin Curtis, married Hannah Coffin Stanton (1839-1879,) the daughter of Dr. Nathan Stanton, a Quaker physician and farmer, and Ruth H. Coffin Stanton, in 1859 in St. Anthony, Minneapolis, moved to St. Paul in 1864, operated an insurance business from 1864 until 1874 as an agent of the Phoenix Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, as an agent of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, and as vice president and general maanager of the Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company, resided briefly in Kentucky and Indiana, then operated a farm loan business from 1875 until 1898, married Mary J. King ( -1905,) the daughter of David King and Harriet Newell Lyon King, then purchased 477,000 acres of land from the Northern Pacific RailRoad in 1898 and subsequently operated a land company, operated a lumber yard, a bank, and two grain elevators in Marion, North Dakota, was a founder of the People's Church, was a co-worker of his wife at the Women's Christian Home of St. Paul, married Eda Worth in 1909, and was the author of the articles "Minnesota journalism in the territorial period" in 1905 and "A Red River townsite speculation in 1857" in 1915, both published by the Minnesota Historical Society. In 1882, D. S. B. Johnston advertised for capital for mortgage loans with a seven percent rate of return in the Fulton Times. Daniel S. B. Johnston and Hannah Coffin Stanton Johnston were the parents of two children, Charles Johnston and A. D. S. Johnston. Charles Levi Johnston ( -1942) died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Eric M. Kustritz. [See note on Stevens for 335 Summit Avenue.] [See note on the Northern Pacific RailRoad for 432 Summit Avenue.]
828 Summit Avenue: Built in 2001; NeoGeorgian in style (misattributed by another source as French Second Empire;) William Ingemann, original architect; Joseph G. Metzler, AIA, SALA Architects, Inc., renovation architect. The structure is a two story, 8812 square foot, 18 room, six bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. The former structure on this lot was built in 1956, and was a two story, 2876 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, frame house, which was last sold in 2000 for $448,000. The house was built by the Konstans and reportedly cost $1.65 million. The current owners of record of the property are Ellen D. Konstan and Joseph A. Konstan. Ellen Konstan is a member of the board of the Summit Hill Association and was the convener of the nominating committee for the Mount Zion Temple Board of Directors in 2005. Joseph A. Konstan received a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Harvard College in 1987, a M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1993, is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, and previously was a vice-president of the Mount Zion Temple Board of Directors. Joseph G. Metzler was the lead architect on the renovation of this house and provided the correct identification of its style. [See note on Ingemann for 1936 Summit Avenue.]
833 Summit Avenue: The property is tax exempt and include two buildings, one, a one story, 24146 square foot, structure that was built in 1985 and the other, a two story, 9946 square foot, structure that was built in 1965. The current owner of record of the property is St. Paul Gospel Temple.
834 Summit Avenue: Edward N. Saunders House; Built in 1903 (1912 according to Ramsey County property tax records and AIA Minnesota;) Classical Revival/Colonial Revival in style; H. C. Nordlander/F. C. Norlander, architect. The house was built as a single family residence at a cost of $37,000 and was converted to condominiums in the 1970's. Unit 1 is a 2489 square foot, three bedroom, three bathroom, stucco condominium, which was previously owned by Jack M. Weatherford and M. Walker Pearce, which last sold in 2006 with a sale price of $660,000, and which is currently owned by Craig D. Norman and Maureen A. Norman. Unit 2 is a 3249 square foot, three bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco condominium, which was previously owned by Meridian Properties Inc., located in Minneapolis, and which is currently owned by Debra J. Strom and Steven R. Strom. Unit 3 is a 1881 square foot, two bedroom, two bathroom, stucco condominium, which was last sold in 1999 for $200,000, and which is currently owned by the trustee for Ann B. Lufkin, located in Hayward, Wisconsin, which was last sold in 2006 for $357,500, and which is currently owned by Meredith A. Ernst and Mitchell E. Ernst. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Edward N. Saunders, Jr., resided at this address from 1914 to 1953. The 1918 and 1924 city directories indicate that Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Saunders, Jr., resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Edward N. Saunders, Jr., president of the North Western Fuel Company, and his wife, Florence D. Saunders, resided at this address. In 1934, Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. Saunders, Jr., resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Edward N. Saunders II (1915- ,) who attended the school from 1926 until 1934 and who attended Yale University, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that John L. Hannaford, a member of the Class of 1936, resided at this address. Edward N. Saunders was the second vice president of the Northwest Fuel Company, in which James J. Hill had an interest in 1877-1879. The house was the second house on Summit Avenue built by Mr. Saunders. In 1895, E. H. Gibbs was the President of the What Cheer Coal Company. Edward N. Saunders, Jr., was a graduate of Yale University. Jack McIver Weatherford is the DeWitt Wallace Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College, has been teaching at Macalester since 1983, and is the author of Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World, The History of Money: From Sandstone to Cyberspace, Savages and Civilization: Who Will Survive?, Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America, Porn Row, Tribes on the Hill, and Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. Jack Weatherford graduated from the University of South Carolina with a B.A in Political Science, received an M.A. in Sociology from the University of South Carolina, received an M.A in Anthropology from the University of South Carolina, received a Ph.D in Anthropology from the University of California, San Diego, and got a post-doctural degree in Policy Studies from Duke University, Institute of Policy Sciences.
There is a 1973 photo of the house.
842 Summit Avenue: Charles Straus House; Built in 1898 (1890 according to the National Register of Historic Places and 1897 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Tudor Revival/Victorian in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The building is a two story, 3698 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 1997 for $405,000. The house was built for $35,000. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Charles Straus resided at this address in 1887. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Charles Straus and C. O. Straus all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mrs. Charles Straus resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Clara Ford, the widow of Silas M. Ford, resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Edwin B. McConville (1897- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1911 until 1914, who was a 1920 graduate of Georgetown University, who was a Seaman Second Class in the U. S. Naval Reserve Force during World War I, who was a realtor who officed at the Park Square Building, and who engaged in the hobbies of golf, horseback riding, and shooting, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Lawrence Platt, Jr., a member of the Class of 1943, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Charles Straus was a partner in the firm, Robinson, Straus and Co., a wholesale millinery. The company imported and distributed ribbons, silks, lace, millinery goods, velvets, feathers, flowers, hats, and straw goods. Edwin B. McConville was married in St. Paul in 1933 and was the father of three children, Edwin B. McConville, Jr. (1935- ,) Michael McConville (1937- ,) and Margaret McConville (1937- .) Charles Straus ( -1916) died in Faribault County, Minnesota. The current owners of record of the property are Timothy R. Lundgren and Francine R. Tashjian. [See note on Lockwood for 726 Summit Avenue.]
845 Summit Avenue: Summit Avenue Assembly of God Church; Built in 1875 (1953, with expansions in 1965, 1983, and 1986, according to Ramsey County property tax records.) This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. After the original church building on Holly Avenue and Mackubin Street was destroyed by fire in 1952, the congregation of the Saint Paul Gospel Temple moved to this location and renamed themselves the Summit Avenue Assembly of God. The Assemblies of God has its roots in a religious revival that began in the late 1800's, with the beginning of the modern Pentecostal revival generally traced to a prayer meeting at Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas, in 1901. By 1914, many ministers and laymen alike had begun to realize that the rapid spread of the Pentecostal revival, and the many evangelistic outreaches it spawned, created a number of practical problems, with a need for the formal recognition of ministers, the approval and support of missionaries, full accounting of funds, a demand for doctrinal unity and gospel literature, and a need for a permanent Bible training school, resulting in a general council in Hot Springs, Arkansas. A cooperative fellowship emerged from the 1914 meeting and was incorporated under the name "The General Council of the Assemblies of God." The organization is structured to unite the assemblies in ministry and a legal identity, while leaving each congregation self-governing and self-supporting. In 1916, the General Council added a Statement of Fundamental Truths to its constitution. A total of 2.5 million Assemblies of God attendees worship in over 12,000 churches in the U. S. and over 35 million worship in 210,435 churches and outstations in 186 other nations. The Assemblies of God has 20 endorsed Bible colleges, liberal arts colleges, and a seminary in the U. S. and 1,845 foreign Bible schools. The national headquarters of the Assemblies of God is located in Springfield, Missouri. Since 1993, Thomas E. Trask has been the General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God, chief executive officer of the church. Edmund L. Tedeschi is the Senior Pastor of the Summit Avenue Assembly of God Church. The prior pastors were Pastor Ben Hardin (1932-1933,) Rev. Marvin Miller (1933-1935,) W. H. Boyes (1935-1939,) J. McCochie (1939-1940,) Rev. Albin Johnson (1940-1943,) Rev. Ivan 0. Miller (1944-1949,) Rev. Wilbur Weides (1949-1963,) Rev. Richard Dresselhaus (1963-1970,) and Rev. Kenneth Swenson (1970-1977.) Thomas Bennett "Ben" Hardin (1893-1958) was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, son of Sherman Hardin and LaRue Brewer Hardin, was raised a Methodist, was ordained a minister in the United Free Gospel and Missionary Society in 1917, married Ethel Elizabeth Toms in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1917, was approved as a missionary by the Assemblies of God in 1918, was a pastor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Gary, Indiana, Chicago, Norfolk, Virginia, Washington, D.C., San Bernadino, California, San Diego, California, and Santa Ana, California, preached in New York City, Buffalo, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Dallas, Texas, and Washington, D.C., was a delegate to the 1943 General Council of the Assemblies of God that approved affiliation with the National Association of Evangelicals, and was a delegate to the 1943 constitutional convention of the National Association of Evangelicals.
846 Summit Avenue: Jacob Westheimer House; Built in 1898 (1897 according to Ransey County property tax records;) Mildly Queen Anne in style; Hermann Kretz, architect (Norman Krebs, architect, according to the National Register of Historic Places.) The building is a two story, 3802 square foot, eight room, four bedroom, two bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2000 for $449,900. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Westheimer resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Westheimer resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Jacob Westheimer, an investment secretary located at the Hackney Building, resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Frank W. Fuller (1899- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1914 until 1918, who served during World War I in the 36th U. S. Infantry, who owned the Fuller Manufacturing Company in Mankato, Minnesota, and who pursued the hobbies of wood working and metal working, resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Frank Fuller, who attended the school from 1914 until 1918, who served during World War I in the 36th U. S. Infantry, who served as a Major in the Manufacturing and Procurement Branch of the Chemical Warfare Service during World War II, resided at this address. Frank W. Fuller married Mildred Conger in San Diego, California, in 1922 and the couple had two children, Catherine Fuller (1924- ) and Barbara Fuller (1928- .) This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Jacob Westheimer was vice president and tresurer of the Aberle-Westheimer Company, wine and liquor dealers. The American Jewish Year Book for 1907 indicates that Jacob Westheimer, associated with Westheimer & Company, was the treasurer of the Mount Zion Hebrew Congregation and that Mrs. J. Westheimer, residing at this address, was the secretary of the Jewish Relief Society. The house was built for $6,000. The current owners of record of the property are Daniel B. Greenfield and Andrea D. Kao. [See note on Kretz for 579 Summit Avenue.]
850 Summit Avenue: Built in 1962. The building is a 1479 square foot, five bedroom, two bathroom, frame rambler, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The current owner of record of the property is Katherine Klisch. The 1887 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. George W. Baldwin and Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Ryno all resided at the former nearby 857 Summit Avenue.
862-864 Summit Avenue: Built in 1892 (1922 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian/Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 3080 square foot, eight bedroom, two bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The building is a two story, 3038 square foot, eight bedroom, three bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2000 for $340,000. The house cost $6,500 to construct. The 1930 city directory indicates that Walter Barney Marschner, the executive secretary of the General Concrete Block Company, and his wife, Genevieve Marschner, resided at 862 Summit Avenue and that Werner Hanni, the general agent in charge of the Department of Justice, and his wife, Agnes M. Hanni, resided at 864 Summit Avenue. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The current owner of record of the property is the Community of Recovering People, located in Wayzata, Minnesota. The Community of Recovering People, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization committed to opening the doors of recovery. John Curtiss, MA LADC, is the President of the Community of Recovering People and George Mann, M.D., is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Community of Recovering People. The former house at 857 Summit Avenue, in 1893, was the residence of Mr. and Mrs. William Yoerg.
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866 Summit Avenue: Built in 1922; Georgian Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 3080 square foot, eight bedroom, two bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. Construction of the house cost $6,500. The 1930 city directory indicates that Francis A. Nolan, a salesman, and his wife, Edna Nolan, resided at this address. The current owner of record of the property is the Community of Recovering People, located in Wayzata, Minnesota.
871 Summit Avenue: William Mitchell College of Law. The property is tax exempt property. The 4.33 acre site contains three buildings, one a three story, 63860 square foot, building built in 1931, the second a three story, 30191 square foot, building built in 1953, and the third a three story, 17492 square foot, building built in 1965. The 1908 city directory indicates that Annie Mahoney was the widow of Timothy Mahoney and was the housekeeper at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Rev. J. C. Byrne, Rev. J. P. Cleary, and Rev. W. J. Harrington all resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Rev. John Abbott, an assistant pastor of St. Luke's Catholic Church, and Rev. Francis Burns, an assistant pastor at St. Luke's Catholic Church, both resided at this address. World War I veteran Reverend William J. Harrington resided at this address in 1919. The 1920 city directory indicates that the Reverend Francis Burns was an assistant pastor at Saint Luke's Catholic Church and resided at this address. In 1879, William J. Harrington, a molder employed by the St. Paul Foundry & Manufacturing Company, boarded at 75 DeBow Street. The current owner of record of the property is the William Mitchell College of Law.
875 Summit Avenue: William Mitchell College of Law; Built in 1893. The property is tax exempt. The 1.86 acre site contains two buildings, one a three story, 33289 square foot, building built in 1957, and the other a two story, 70598 square foot, building built in 1988, according to Ramsey County property tax records. William Mitchell College of Law is the result of a series of law school mergers. In 1956, the St. Paul College of Law and the Minneapolis-Minnesota College of Law, itself the result of a half-dozen prior mergers, merged to create the William Mitchell School of Law. Most of the campus buildings were previously a girl's high school. Mitchell purchased the campus in 1976. The Burger Library building was constructed 1989-1990. William Mitchell's enrollment of about 1,030 makes its student body the largest of the nine law schools in the five-state area. The school has 38 full-time faculty members and about 200 judges, attorneys, and others who are adjunct professors, legal-skills instructors, competition advisors, or supervisors of clinics or externships. The law school is the successor to a law school that was initially founded in 1900. The law school's original Minneapolis predecessors and the dates of their founding were the Northwestern College of Law (1912), the Minnesota College of Law (1913), the YMCA College of Law (1919), and the Minneapolis College of Law (1925). From 1921 through the late 1950's, the St. Paul College of Law occupied the Berkey Mansion, at Sixth and College streets. The building was located in what now is the middle of Kellogg Boulevard, just south of the entrance to the Minnesota History Center (streets in the area have been relocated). The Minneapolis College of Law, which became the Minneapolis-Minnesota College of Law in 1940, was located at 24 S. Seventh Street from 1935 to 1955. The latter college, which briefly functioned as the Minneapolis branch of William Mitchell, occupied space in the Metropolitan Building, at Third Street and Second Avenue South, from 1955 to 1958. William Mitchell's home from 1958 to 1976 was a building at 2100 Summit Avenue in St. Paul. It is now McNeely Hall on the University of St. Thomas campus. Enrollment in 1900 was about 20 students and the annual tuition was $60. Its namesake, William Mitchell (1832-1900,) a former Wabasha County district court judge and a Minnesota Supreme Court justice and chief justice (1881-1899,) was regarded as one of the best judges in Minnesota history. William B. Mitchell (1832-1900,) the son of John Mitchell and Mary Henderson Mitchell, was born in Stamford/Niagara Falls, Welland County, Ontario, Canada, moved to the United States in 1848, graduated from Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania in 1853, taught school in Morgantown, Virginia, read the law in Morgantown, Virginia, was admitted to the practice of law in Virginia in 1857, moved to Winona, Minnesota, in 1857, was a law partner with Eugene Wilson, married Jane Hanway Smith ( -1867,) a widow with one child, in Morgantown, Virginia, was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives representing Winona County (District 1) from 1859 until 1860, was a law partner of Daniel S. Norton, then was the law partner of William H. Yale, was the county attorney from Winona County, Minnesota, was a member of the Winona City Council, married Frances Merritt Smith, a widow with one child, in 1872, professed no specific religion, was a judge of the Third District from 1874 until 1881, was an associate justice of the supreme court from 1881 until 1900, had the hobbies of hunting, fishing, and gardening, and died of a stroke near Alexandria, Minnesota. William Mitchell married Frances Merritt and the couple had a son, William DeWitt Mitchell (1874-1955.) Justice Mitchell pursued a strict judicial approach, even at the expense of equal justice, as exemplified in Rhone v. Loomis, 77 N.W. 81 (Minn. 1898), when Justice William Mitchell, in a 3-2 decision, with the chief justice dissenting, ruled that it was legal for a saloon to refuse to serve a "colored man" because the statute that precluded discrimination in taverns, inns, restaurants, and other places of public refreshment did not specifically mention "saloons." The current owner of record of the property is the William Mitchell College of Law. William DeWitt Mitchell was born in Winona, Minnesota, attended Yale University for two years, graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in 1895 and a law degree in 1896, began a private law practice in St. Paul, was a member of the law firm of Stringer & Seymour, was a partner in the law firm of How, Taylor & Mitchell, was a partner in the law firm of Butler, Mitchell & Doherty, saw action as an infantry officer in the 15th Minnesota Regiment during the Spanish-American War, fought in World War I, married Gertrude Bancroft (1877- ) in 1901, was a Presbyterian, was appointed U. S. Solicitor General in 1925 by President Calvin Coolidge, although he was a Democrat, was a partner in the law firm of Mitchell, Doherty, Rumble, Bunn & Butler until 1929, served as U. S. Attorney General in the administration of President Herbert Hoover from 1929 to 1933, practiced law in New York City as a partner in the law firm of Taylor, Capron & Marsh, served as chairman on the Committee of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, was the chief counsel to the joint Congressional committee investigating the Pearl Harbor attack, and died in Syosset, New York. William Mitchell, grandson of Justice William Mitchell and son of William DeWitt Mitchell, was an attorney and was an Assistant Secretary of War during World War II. Ann Iijima, a law professor at the William Mitchell College of Law, was a contributor to the John Kerry for President campaign in 2004.
880 Summit Avenue: Fred C. Norlander House; Built in 1923; Bungalow in style; F. C. Norlander, architect. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The original owner, builder, and resident, Fred Norlander, was a contractor. Construction of the house cost $15,000. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Fred C. Norlander resided at this address from 1924 to 1936, that the house was originally located at 894 Summit, was moved to this site in 1950, and became the parsonage for St. Paul's Church of Christ.
894 Summit Avenue: The Fred C. Norlander House, now at 880 Summit Avenue, was originally located at this address before 1950. The 1930 city directory indicates that Fred C. Norlander, a general contractor, and his wife, Johanna H. Norlander, resided at this address.
900 Summit Avenue: St. Paul's United Church of Christ School, Built around 1960; Modern in style. The building also houses the Childhood Center. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District.
900 Summit Avenue: St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Built around 1960; Modern in style. The property is tax exempt. The 2.48 acre site contains three buildings, one a four story, 49002 square foot, building built in 1950, the second a two story, 5314 square foot, building built in 1923, and the third a one story, 484 square foot, built in 1945. The church formerly was St. Paul's German Evangelical and Reform Church. The United Church of Christ was founded in 1957 as the union of several different Christian traditions, principally the Congregational Churches with roots in the New England colonies founded by the English Pilgrims and the Puritans, and the Christian Church with origins on the American frontier, which united in 1931 as the Congregational Christian Churches, and the Reformed Church in the United States, founded by 18th-century German and Swiss immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania and the mid-Atlantic region, and the Evangelical Synod of North America, a 19th-century church planted by German settlers along the Mississippi Valley, some of which united in 1934 as the Evangelical and Reformed Church. The UCC embodies the essence of both sets of 1930's unions, a blend of freedom with order, of the English and European Reformations with the American Awakenings, of 17th-century separatism with 20th-century ecumenism, of presbyterian with congregational polities, and of neo-orthodox with liberal theologies, thus bringing together ecclesiastical bodies rooted in English Puritanism, American frontier revivalism, and German religious history. The church also has attempted to incorporate into its essence the fervent evangelical spirit of its African American, Hispanic, Native American, Native Hawai'ian, Pacific Islander, Asian, and Hungarian congregations and to embrace multiculturalism. "Open and affirming," predominantly lesbian and gay, congregations have been organized and received into the church, adding a new tradition to the mix, with some controversy. The United Church of Christ is an extremely pluralistic and diverse denomination. Reverend John H. Thomas is the General Minister and President of the church and Ms. Edith A. Guffey is the Associate General Minister of the church. The UCC main office is located in Cleveland, Ohio. The current owner of record of the property is the St. Paul's Evangelical Reformed Congregation. The 1920 city directory indicates that Patrick W. Casey, the sales manager employed by the Brown Sheet Iron & Steel Company, resided at the former nearby 909 Summit Avenue.
922 Summit Avenue: Built in 1939. The structure is a one story, 1473 square foot, three bedroom, three bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The current owners of record of the property are Nina M. Hakanson and Mark J. Peschel.
923 Summit Avenue: Alfred Wharton residence; Built in 1902 and 1926. The two buildings are multi-family apartment buildings, one structure a two story, 9734 square foot, building and the other structure a one story, 1234 square foot, building. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Alfred Wharton resided at this address from 1891 to 1920 and that John W. Willis resided at this address from 1898 to 1953. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that James C. Fitzgerald (1859-1893,) of Irish heritage who died of typhoid fever, and Margaret W. Fitzgerald, husband and wife, resided at this address in 1893. The 1897 Catalogue of the Legal Fraternity of Phi Delta Phi, edited by George Anthony Katzenberger and published by the Inland Press of Ann Arbor, Michigan, indicates that George Henry Rogers, Class of 1899, University of Wisconsin, resided at this address. In 1916, Judge John Willey Willis was a member of the Minnesota Historical Society and resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Hon. and Mrs. John W. Willis and Dr. Alf Wharton all resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Alfred Wharton (1836-1920,) the widower father of Margaret Willis, who was born in Pennsylvania to parents born in the United States and who died of senility, resided at this address in 1920. The 1920 city directory indicates that Swan J. Burkman was a chauffeur at this address and that Francis G. Fitzgerald, a salesman, boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Hon. and Mrs. John W. Willis resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Margaret Willis, the widow of John Willis, resided at this address. John Willey Willis, a son of Charles L. Willis and Anna Marie Gleason Willis and of grandson of Luther Willis and Frances Willey Willis, was a member of the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of great grandfathers Sylvanus Willis, a Private in the New Hampshire Troops and Allen Willey, Jr., a Private in the New Hampshire Militia, and great great grandfather Allen Willey, Sr., a Private in the New Hampshire Militia, during the Revolutionary War. John Willey Willis resided at 367 Bates Avenue in 1905. In 1866, Alfred Wharton (1835- ,) who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in 1854 and with a medical degree in 1857, was the librarian of the Academy of Medicine and Surgery in St. Paul, the city's first medical society, and was an organizer of and was the vice president of the Ramsey County Medical Society in 1870. Alfred Wharton was a founder of the Farmer's & Mechanic's Bank in 1871 and was a member of the board of directors of and the vice president of the Farmer's & Mechanic's Bank in 1880. In 1890, Alfred Wharton was a senior warden of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. John Willey Willis (1854- ,) the son of Charles L. Willis and Anna Marie Gleason Willis and the grandson of Luther Willis and Frances Willey Willis, was born in St. Paul, attended the University of Minnesota in 1873, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1877, was a Latin instructor at the St. Paul High School from 1877 until 1879, read the law at the law firm of Gilman, Clough & Lane, was admitted to the practice of law in 1879, represented the Northern Pacific RailRoad in litigation, was a member of the St. Paul School Board from 1881 until 1882, was a Democrat, ran for Minnesota Attorney General in 1884, converted to Roman Catholicism in 1884, was the president of the Minnesota Pioneers in 1860, was a judge in Minnesota Second Judicial District (Ramsey County) from 1893 until 1899 after defeating Judge W. D. Cornish, was an adjunct professor of law at the University of Minnesota, was a member of the State Board of Corrections and Charities in 1888, was the president of the Minnesota branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1925, was a candidate for Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court on the People's Party ticket in 1894, was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution by virtue of two great grandfathers and one great great grandfather who served in the New Hampshire Militia during the Revolutionary War, donated the legal papers of Moses D. Sherburne, namesake of Sherburne County, Minnesota, to the Minnesota Historical Society in 1921, and twice was an unsuccessful candidate for the U. S. Congress. In 1910, Judge John Willey Willis, as a member of the State Board of Pardons, was a proponent of a successful effort to commute the four year balance of the sentence of John Carter, a poet published in The Prison Mirror and in The Century Magazine, convicted in 1904 at the age of 19 in a trial without representation by a lawyer of stealing $24 when he was starving and sentenced to ten years in the Stillwater, Minnesota, prison. John Willey Willis initially married Eleanor Forsythe ( -1894) and married Margaret Wharton Fitzgerald (1863- ,) the daughter of Alfred Wharton and Susan Budd Wharton, in 1897. Margaret Wharton Fitzgerald had a son, Francis Carroll FitzGerald, from her 1888 marriage to James C. Fitzgerald and John Willey Willis and Margaret Wharton Fitzgerald adopted a daughter, Hazel Willis. Charles L. Willis of Ohio, the father of John Willey Willis, settled in St. Paul in 1851. Margaret Fitzgerald ( -1922) died in Ramsey County. The current owner of record of the property is Norlin G. Boyum, located in Minneapolis. [See the note for John Willey Willis for 367 Bates Avenue.] [See note on William Dalton Cornish for 534 Summit Avenue.]
926 Summit Avenue: Dr. J. C. Whitacre House; Built in 1889 (1928 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Tudor Revival/Bungalow in style; C. Hamm, architect. The structure is a one story, 1844 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 1993 for $185,000. The 1930 city directory indicates that John C. Whitacre, a physician located at 350 St. Peter Street, and his wife, Mary Whitacre, resided at this address. The 1964 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that John C. Whitacre, a member of the Class of 1944, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The house cost $9,000 to construct. The current owner of record of the property is Maria S. Huffman.
929 Summit Avenue: Dr. Alfred Wharton House; Built in 1890 (1902 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Mildly Shingle in style; A. H. Stem, architect. The commercial structure is a two story, 6324 square foot, 13 bedroom, six bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. The house cost $16,000. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. Alfred Wharton, of Ramsey County, enlisted in the Union Army in 1862 and was Chief Surgeon of the Sixth Minnesota Regiment and resigned from that position in 1864 and was replaced by Wallace P. Belden. In 1870, when the Ramsey County Medical Society was formed, Dr. Alfred Wharton was elected to be its vice president. Margaret Wharton Willis was the daughter of Alfred Wharton, M.D., and resided at 367 North Bates Avenue.
934 Summit Avenue: 934 Summit Avenue; Built in 1906 (1908 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/mildly Colonial Revival in style; C. P. Waldon, architect. The structure is a two story, 5007 square foot, seven bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Carl P. Waldon was the contractor for the house. Waldon lived in Minneapolis. The house was built for $8,500. The 1910 city directory indicates that Joseph C. Wood, the treasurer of the Northwestern Colonization Company, resided at this address. In 1914, Thomas Dean resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Dean, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hamilton, and J. C. Hamilton all resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Fink and Edward Fink all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Peter E. Hellum and his wife, Emmy Hellum, resided at this address. The current owners of record of the property are Katherine Daltas and Hilda Daltas.
937 Summit Avenue: Dr. E. K. VonWedel Spredt House; Built in 1899 (1899 according to Sandeen and the Minnesota Historical Society, 1884 according to the National Register of Historic Places, and 1901 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Craftsman/Tudor Revival in style; Cass Gilbert, architect. The structure is a two story, 3302 square foot, five bedroom, three bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Dr. Edward K. Wedelstaedt resided at this address from 1900 to 1962. The 1918 and 1924 city directories indicate that Dr. and Mrs. E. K. Wedelstaedt resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Edward K. Wedelstaedt, a dentist located at the New York Building, and his wife, Alice Wedelstaedt, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. This house was built for John A. Humbird, who was in the lumber business. He lived at 527 Dayton Avenue. The house cost $7,000 to construct and no major alterations have been made to over the years. Humbird was also the original owner of the house next door at 943 Summit Avenue, which was built at the same time for the same price. According to local tradition, the houses were built for two sisters and were originally identical. The two sisters apparently feuded and one of the houses was altered so that it no longer resembled its original appearance. The house is among the last houses designed by Cass Gilbert in St. Paul and represents a surprisingly late version of Craftsman/Tudor Revival stylistic elements. John A. Humbird was the son of Jacob Humbird (1811-1893), a native of Cumberland, Maryland, and the two owned and operated the Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company in Victoria, British Columbia (1889-1893). John A. Humbird and Thomas J. Humbird were the presidents the Humbird Lumber Company (1903-1944) in St. Paul, which was a Weyerhaeuser affiliate. The pair were also associated with the North Wisconsin Railway Company, with D. A. Baldwin, of New York, and the West Wisconsin Railway Company (1871-1880) of Hudson, Wisconsin. In 1869, Congress selected the North Wisconsin Railway Company to build the rail line from the St. Croix River or St. Croix Lake to Bayfield on Lake Superior. In 1835, Jacob Humbird was engaged as an engineer with William Brown on a slack water improvement on Green River, Kentucky and, in 1837, moved to Cumberland and associated with his brother John, as Humbird & Co., and took a contract on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and, in 1844, was engaged in the Mt. Savage RailRoad. He also had the contract for building the Ravin Gap RailRoad, South Carolina, in 1858. In the 1860's, the Humbird Company was involved in the construction of a Government railroad and tunnel in Brazil, across the Sera de Mar Mountains, about forty miles, and the tunnel was, at the time of its completion, the greatest work of its kind in the world. In 1867, Jacob Humbird began the construction of the West Wisconsin railroad, and in 1872, commenced the North Wisconsin railroad from Hudson to Bayfield on Lake Superior. In 1880, with his brother John Humbird, Jacob Humbird took the contract for building the railroad from Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, through Chambersburg to Shippensburg. Caroline F. "Torry" Davidson, wife of William Davidson, and daughter of Charles W. Farnum and Kate Humbird Farnum, was the granddaughter of John A. Humbird and the great granddaughter of Jacob Humbird. John A. Humbird was the president of the Chicago North Western RailRoad in 1879. In John A. Humbird and Frederick Weyerhaeuser v. Waldo A. Avery, 195 U.S. 480 (1904,) Humbird and Weyerhaeuser sued as successor grantees of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, a Wisconsin corporation, to clear title to some railroad land. Dr. E. K. Wedelstaedt lived at this address in 1914. In 1934, Alice Humbird Wedelstaldt, the widow of Edward K. Wedelstaldt, resided at this address. The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha RailRoad was the result of the merger of the North Wisconsin Railway, the West Wisconsin Railway, and the St. Paul & Sioux City RailRoad. The current owners of record of the property are Donna A. Mahlum and William M. Mahlum. [See note on Gilbert for 318 Summit Avenue.]
942 Summit Avenue: 942 Summit Avenue; Built in 1908; Georgian Revival/Colonial Revival in style; Peter Linhoff, architect. The structure is a two story, 4896 square foot, eight bedroom, two bathroom, two half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The house also was built by Carl P. Waldon. The house was built for $25,000. In 1914, Sylvester McDermott resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jefferson McDermott and Sylvester D. McDermott all resided at this address. Paul I. McDermott and Sylvester D. McDermott were World War I veterans who resided at this address in 1919. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier’s Bonus Board (#20330) indicate that Sylvester D. McDermott (1891- ,) a 1918 draftee and a Private in the 33rd Engineers, who was born in St. Paul, had blue eyes, dark brown hair, and a ruddy complexion, was 5' 11" tall, was a clerk at induction, served in the American Expeditionary Force in France, was issued one bronze Victory button, was a clerk employed by the Manhattan Oil Company after the completion of service, and was unmarried, resided with his mother, Caroline T. McDermott, at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Thomas J. McDermott, a lawyer officing at the Exchange Building, resided at this address and that George McDermott and John F. McDermott, both students, both boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McDermott, Paul McDermott, and George McDermott all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Thomas Jefferson McDermott, an attorney who officed at the New York Building, and his wife, Caroline McDermott, resided at this address. In 1934, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. McDermott resided at this address. Thomas Jefferson McDermott (1861- ) was born in Kasota, Le Sueur County, Minnesota, the son of Paul A. McDermott and Rose McMamee McDermott, graduated from a Minneapolis commercial school, read the law in the offices of Eugene M. Wilson, was admitted to the practice of law in Minnesota in 1892 and was admitted to the practice of law before the U. S. Supreme Court in 1895, opened a law practice in St. Paul, was a special attorney for the Singer Manufacturing Company, was a special attorney for the Western Supply Company, was an assistant general attorney for the Chicago Great Western RailRoad, was a member of the International Order of Foresters, was a Catholic, and was a Democratic and was a chairman of the State Central Committee of the Democratic Party. Thomas J. McDermott married Caroline T. Doran in Marysburg, Minnesota, in 1887 and the couple had five children, Sylvester McDermott, Paul McDermott, John McDermott, George McDermott, and Helen Grace McDermott. Linhoff designed 17 other houses on Summit Avenue. Paul A. McDermott ( -1918) died in Nicollet County, Minnesota. Rose M. McDermott (1836-1906) was born in Pennsylvania, had a mother with a maiden name of Dolan, and died in Nicollet County, Minnesota. The property was last sold in 2005 and the sale price is $980,000. The previous owners of record of the property were Kenneth E. Phelan and Phyllis W. Phelan and the current owners of record of the property are Brenda I. Braget and Michael D. Knutson. [See note on Linhoff for 361 Summit Avenue.]
943 Summit Avenue: Stiles W. Burr House; Built in 1899; Georgian Revival/Queen Anne/Colonial Revival in style; Cass Gilbert, architect. The structure is a two story, 5683 square foot, eight bedroom, four bathroom, one half-bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2004 for $1,022,600. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Stiles W. Burr and Mrs. Clara M. Burr resided at this address in 1890. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Stiles W. Burr resided at this address from 1899 to 1963. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that David Humbird Burr was the stillborn son of Stiles W. Burr and was born in St. Paul to parents born in the United States. Stiles W. Burr resided at this address in 1905. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Burr resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Stiles W. Burr, an attorney at law who officed at the Merchant Bank Building, resided at this address and that Herbert W. Christensen, who resided at 128 North Western Avenue, was a chauffeur at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mrs. S. W. Burr and her daughter resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Jane H. Burr resided at this address. In 1934, John H. Burr and Jane Humbird Burr resided at this address. This house was built for John A. Humbird, who was in the lumber business. He lived at 527 Dayton Avenue. The house cost $7,000 to construct. Humbird was also the original owner of the house next door at 937 Summit, which was built at the same time for the same price. In 1901, Stiles W. Burr, with William H. Farnham and Charles W. Farnham, formed the Potlatch Timber Company, a general lumbering company buying land and operating in Minnesota and Wisconsin and a Weyerhaeuser affiliate. In 1905, Stiles W. Burr was the vice-president of the O'Neal Timber Company, a general lumbering and manufacturing company incorporated in 1905 to buy, sell, lease, and improve lands, timber and all products of timber, and to conduct a general logging, lumbering and manufacturing business and a Weyerhaeuser affiliate. In 1920, the Conference of Bar Association Delegates of the American Bar Association elected Stiles W. Burr as Chairman of the conference. Stiles W. Burr, Jared How, J. F. McGee, Pierce Butler, William D. Mitchell, William A. Lancaster, Frank B. Kellogg, Cordenio A. Severance, Robert E. Olds, Charles W. Bunn, and Walker D. Hines successfully represented the Northern Pacific Railway Company in Ex Parte Young, 209 U.S. 123, a case overturning a Federal court demand that the Minnesota Attorney General show cause not to be held in contempt over a dispute with railroad shareholders over state rate regulation in 1908, where the railroad also was a defendant. Stiles W. Burr, Frank B. Kellogg, and Charles W. Bunn successfully represented Frederick Weyerhauser and John Humbird in a railroad grant land title case, Campbell v. Weyerhauser, 219 U.S. 424, in 1911. Charles W. Bunn successfully represented the railroad in a dispute with a homesteader about title to land located in Todd County, Minnesota, Northern Pacific Railway Company v. Wass, 219 U.S. 426, in 1911. Stiles W. Burr, Charles Donnelly, Charles W. Bunn, and James B. Kerr unsuccessfully represented the timber company and the Northern Pacific Railway Company in West v. Edward Rutledge Timber Company, 244 U.S. 90, in 1917, involving the title to land in Idaho traded with the Northern Pacific Railway Company for grant land in what became Mount Ranier National Park. Stiles W. Burr and C. W. Bunn successfully the timber company represented in Rutledge Timber Company v. Farrell, 255 U.S. 268, in 1921, an Idaho land title case. In 1915, Stiles W. Burr became the president of the Hill City Railway Company, a new corporation formed to operate the Hill City & Western Railroad, after the railroad suffered financially due to a fire, was losing money, was forced to be sold by its creditors, and was sold to the Armor interests of Chicago for $200,000 as the only bidders. In 1920, Mrs. Stiles Burr, a member of the Democratic National Executive Committee, was an alternate at large to the Democratic Party National Convention in San Francisco. John A. Humbird, president of Chicago Northwest Railroad, was instrumental in constructing and developing the West Wisconsin Railroad that reached Hudson, Wisconsin, in 1871. In 1900, Frederick Weyerhaeuser and John A. Humbird were partners in the White River Lumber Company of Mason, Wisconsin, and purchased from the Northern Pacific Railroad a bundle of Mt. Rainier scrip entitling them to over 40,000 acres on the Clearwater River in Idaho. Humbird also had logging operations in British Columbia and Colorado. In John A. Humbird and Frederick Weyerhaeuser v. Waldo A. Avery 195 U.S. 480 (1904,) Frederick Weyerhaeuser and John A. Humbird v. Herbert H. Hoyt 219 U.S. 380 (1911,) and Charles D. Campbell v. Frederick Weyerhaeuser and John A. Humbird 219 U.S. 424 (1911,) the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Weyerhaeuser and Humbird regarding the conveyances of land west of Duluth, Minnesota, by the Department of the Interior and the Northern Pacific RailRoad after an error was made by the Department of the Interior relating to the western terminus of the railroad. Jane Humbird Burr was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Ramsey County in 1928. The 1897 Catalogue of the Legal Fraternity of Phi Delta Phi, edited by George Anthony Katzenberger and published by the Inland Press of Ann Arbor, Michigan, indicates that James Bremer Kerr received a bachelors degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1889, a masters degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1890 and a law degree from the University of Minnesota in 1892, was the land attorney for the Northern Pacific RailRoad, and officed in the New York Life Building. The current owners of record of the property are David Ingwell and Mary Pat Ingwell. [See note on Gilbert for 318 Summit Avenue.]
952 Summit Avenue: Charles Beckhoefer House; Built in 1914 (1913 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Elizabethan/Tudor Revival in style; Thomas G. Holyoke, architect. The structure is a two story, 5042 square foot, seven bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. The house was built for $22,000. In 1916, Charles Bechhoefer was a member of the Minnesota Historical Society and resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bechhoefer and Miss C. R. Goldman all resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Charles Bechhoefer, a lawyer woh officed at the Guardian Life Building, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Charles Bechhoefer and Miss C. R. Goldman resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Charles Bechhoefer, a Ramsey County District Court judge, and his wife, Caroline Bechhoefer, resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Bernhard G. Bechoefer, a member of the Class of 1921, a 1925 graduate of Harvard University, a 1928 graduate of Harvard Law School, and an attorney with O'Brien, Horn & Stringer, resided at this address. Charles Bechhoefer married Helen Goldman at Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1892, and the couple had two children, Bernhard G. Bechhoefer (1904- ) and Jeanette Bechhoefer. Bernhard G. Bechoefer married Estelle Scharfield of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1929 and the couple had two children, Charles Bechoefer (1933- ) and Arthur Bechoefer (1935- .) In 1964, Bernhard G. Bechoefer resided in Washington, D. C. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Charles Beckhoefer (1864-1932) was born in Pennsylvania and was an attorney. The current owner of record of the property is Robert V. Miller, who resides in River Falls, Wisconsin. [See note on Holyoke for 500 Summit Avenue.] [See note on Charles Bechhoefer for 1317 Summit Avenue.]
955 Summit Avenue: Carlos N. Boynton House; Built in 1904 (Sandeen and Larson; 1905 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) mildly Baroque/Jacobean/Jacobethan in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect. The structure is a two story, 5553 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 1999 for $750,000. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Carlos N. Boynton resided at this address from 1905 to 1926. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Boynton resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Lillian A. Bollinger, a mounter for Brown & Bigelow, Incorporated, Clifford C. Boynton, secretary for the Carlos N. Boynton Land Company, and Lillian Berlinger, a messenger employed by the Husch Brothers, all boarded at this address and that Kate M. Boynton, widow of Carlos N. Boynton, the former president of the Carlos N. Boynton Land Company, resided at this address. The 1920 city directory also indicates that Herman Burling was a chauffeur at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Boynton and Mrs. Kate Boynton all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Harry G. McNeely, the president-treasurer of the St. Paul Terminal Warehouse Company, and his wife, Adelaide McNeely, resided at this address. In 1934, Harry G. McNeely, Adelaide Frenzel McNeely, Donald McNeely, Jean McNeely, Audrey McNeely, and Harry McNeely resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Donald G. McNeely (1914- ,) who attended the school from 1925 until 1933, who was a 1937 graduate of Yale University, and who was employed by the First National Bank of St. Paul, resided at this address. The house was built for $26,000 (Sandeen and Larson). Johnston also designed a garage for the house in 1907, which cost $2,000. Carlos M. Boynton (1859-1919) was born in Vermont and was a proprietor of a real estate and farm land company. Brown & Bigelow was started in 1895 by Herbert Huse Bigelow (1870-1933), who invested $1500 in the business, and Hiram Brown, who invested $3000 in the business. Bigelow was the son of Andrew Steele Bigelow ( -1874) and Celestia Huse Bigelow, was born in Blooksfield, Orange County, Vermont, was the oldest of three children, moved to Iowa, was educated in Vermont and Iowa schools, including Grinnell College, married Nina Penny of Fullerton, Nebraska, and sold calendars while on their honeymoon to the Black Hills. Brown was never active in the business, and died in 1905. Bigelow's first wife died in 1897 and he then married Mrs. Frances Gillette, a widow, and adopted her son, Leon Gillette. In its early days, Brown and Bigelow was a model facility with large areas of glass and light, landscaped grounds, and recreational facilities for its employees. Bigelow was a very paternalistic employer, admired Elbert Hubbard, and wished to accomplish what Hubbard had done in his New York plant. Herbert Bigelow was absolutely opposed to the unionization of any industry and was an equally outspoken opponent of the income tax. In the post-Teapot Dome era, in the early 1920's, the federal government chose to prosecute a few selected businessmen from each geographic area for income tax evasion, including Herbert Bigelow, who expected to be fined, but instead was sentenced to three years in prison and served the minimum eight months at the Leavenworth penitentiary, where his cell mate was Charles Ward, who was there on a narcotics trafficking conviction. Bigelow died by accidental drowning in Bass Lake, Minnesota. The subsequent president of Brown & Bigelow, Charles Allen Ward (1886-1959), benefitted from the Brown & Bigelow practice of hiring ex-inmates, and rose from the position of general manager. Bigelow left an estate of $3 million, and a farm, and Charlie Ward inherited a third of the money and inherited the farm. Ward took over the company and turned it into a powerhouse, hired ex-cons and cheesecake illustrators, signed the artist Norman Rockwell, and won clients like the Boy Scouts. By the late 1940's, Brown & Bigelow was one of the biggest calendar printers in the world. Charles Ward even sent a calendar to President Harry S. Truman in 1952, which was posted in the President's bedroom. In 1964-1965, Harry G. McNeely, Jr., was the vice president of the St. Paul Rangers Hockey Team of the Central Hockey League and was a backer of the expansion Minnesota North Stars NHL Hockey Team in 1967. In 1992, Harry McNeely, Jr., was the chair of Space Center Enterprises Inc., an industrial real estate firm. Harry G. McNeely, Jr., the chairman emeritus of Meritex Enterprises and of the McNeely Foundation, is currently on the board of the University of St. Thomas and, as the President and CEO of the Opus Corporation and the Industry Financial Corporation, was chair of the University of St. Thomas Board in 1997. Harry G. McNeely III of the McNeely Foundation is currently on the board of the Minnesota Council on Foundations. Paddy McNeely is Harry G. McNeely, Jr.'s son, is the current CEO of Meritex, and is on the board of the Kinnickinnic River Land Trust. Marjorie McNeely, who died in 1998, was president of the St. Paul Garden Club, was a member of the original Guthrie Theater board, and had the Como Park Conservatory named for her after a $7 million donation from the McNeely family. The current owners of record of the property are Roger D. Wilsey, Sr., and Shari K. Wilsey. In 2003, Shari Wilsey and Roger Wilsey were contributors to the Randy Kelly for St. Paul Mayor campaign and resided at this address. Roger Dallas Wilsey, Sr., a credit/collection manager for the Lakeville Motor Express, was a contributor to the George W. Bush for President campaign in 2004. The 1920 city directory indicates that Caroline Cameron, a manager of the Summit Theatre, resided at the former nearby 956 Summit Avenue. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
965 Summit Avenue: George H. Prince House; Built in 1901; Georgian Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, original architect, and Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., garage and remodeling architect. The structure is a two story, 6758 square foot, six bedroom, four bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2001 for $1,400,000. The house was built for $11,000. This huge house has an institutional flavor to it. Its asymmetrical facade and unusual flat roofed dormers with central broken segmental arched pediments add to its rather unconventional appearance for a house of this style. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that George E. Prince resided at this address from 1902 to 1933. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that George Harrison Prince resided at this address in 1907. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. George H. Prince and their daughters resided at this address. World War I veteran Frank Prince resided at this address in 1919. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Prince resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that George H. Prince, chairman of the board of the First National Bank of St. Paul, and his wife, Jessie R. Prince, resided at this address. In 1934, George H. Prince and Jessie Robertson Prince resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that William Hamm III (1935- ,) who attended the school from 1946 until 1949, resided at this address. George Harrison Prince (1861- ) was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, was the son of George Harrison Prince and Sarah E. Nash Prince, was initially employed by the First National Bank of Stillwater, Minnesota, became the cashier at the Capitol Bank in 1890, was subsequently the cashier, vice president, and chairman of the board at the Merchants National Bank from 1897 until after 1912, was a member of the board of directors of the Merchants' Bank at Cloquet, Minnesota, the St. Paul Gas Light Company, the Consolidated Elevator Company of Duluth, Minnesota, was the treasurer of the St. Paul Chapter of the American Red Cross, was a member of the American Club of London, England, the Bankers Club of New York, the Minnesota Club, the Somerset Country Club, the Town and Country Club, the University Club, and the White Bear Yacht Club, was a Republican, and pursued the hobbies of horseback riding and golf. George H. Prince married Jessie Bernice Robertson and the couple had two children, Frank R. Prince and Mary Robertson Prince Zimmerman. Frank Moody Prince (1854- ,) the son of George H. Prince and Sarah E. Nash Prince, was born at Amherst, Massachusetts, was educated in Amherst, Massachusetts, worked in general store from 1870 until 1874, came to Minnesota, in 1874, settling at Stillwater, Minnesota, was employed in the general store of Prince & French in Stillwater, Minnesota, in 1874, in 1875 taught school, then worked as an office boy and general clerk in the First National Bank of Stillwater, Minnesota, until 1878, then was employed in the First National Bank of Minneapolis as correspondent and teller until 1882, when he returned to the First National Bank of Stillwater, Minnesota, taking the position of cashier, in 1883, was the secretary and treasurer of the Minnesota Loan and Trust Company of Minneapolis from 1892 until 1894, when he returned to the First National Bank of Minneapolis as cashier, then became vice-president of the bank in 1895. Frank M. Prince was also a director of the Minnesota Loan and Trust Company of Minneapolis, a director of the Stillwater Water Company, a director of the C. N. Nelson Lumber Company, a director of the Hennepin County Savings Bank, and a director of the Merchants' Bank at Cloquet, Minnesota, was a Republican, was a patron of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, and was a member of the Minneapolis Club, of the Minneapolis Athletic Club, of the Lafayette Club, and of the Commercial Club. Frank M. Prince married Mary Bell Russell ( -1888) in 1883, but the couple had no children, and married Mrs. Margaret Macartney Townshend of Stillwater, Minnesota, in 1898. Frank M. Prince was the president of the First National Bank of Minneapolis from 1904 until 1917. Frank M. Prince also was a member of the Minnesota Historical Society from Hennepin County. In 1920, Frank M. Prince resided at 27 Groveland Terrace in Minneapolis. Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., was the architect who designed a garage for this property, in 1910, with alterations in 1915, at a cost of $7,000. Johnston also was retained to remodel the house in 1915 at a cost of $21,000. Jessie R. Prince ( -1938) died in Ramsey County. Frank Moody Prince ( -1941) died in Hennepin County. The current owners of record of the property are Janice Simmonds and Gerald L. Trooien. In 2003, Frankie Simmonds, Janice Simmonds, Victoria Simmonds, Alexandra Simmonds-Trooien, Walker Simmonds-Trooien, Gerald Trooien, Geraldine Trooien, and Oscar Trooien were contributors to the Randy Kelly for St. Paul Mayor campaign and resided at this address. Gerald L. Trooien is the largest shareholder in and is a director of Infowave Software. Gerald L. Trooien is the president of the JLT Group, is associated with Alexandra & Associates LLC, and is a major investor in Sproqit Technologies Inc. [See note on Linhoff for 361 Summit Avenue.] [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
966 Summit Avenue: A. Slimmer House; Built in 1902; Georgian Revival/Queen Anne Rectilinear in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The structure is a two story, 4766 square foot, seven bedroom, four bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The house was built for $8,000. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1910 city directory indicates that Abraham Slimmer and Abraham Slimmer, Jr., associated with Slimmer & Thomas with Lane J. Thomas, a live stock brokerage located at the Exchange Building, resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Abreham Slimmer, Jr., and Miss Sarah M. Goldman all resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Anna Fitzgerald was a cook at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Slimmer and Miss Sarah M. Goldman all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Abraham Slimmer, a live stock dealer, and his wife, Jeanette Slimmer, resided at this address. The estate of Abraham Slimmer, Sr., led to a U. S. Supreme Court case, Iowa v. Slimmer, Jr., 248 U.S. 115 (1918,) where the State of Iowa sued for $13,750 in taxes due on the property of Abraham Slimmer, Sr., alleging a conspiracy by the Slimmers and others to defraud the state of taxes. In an opinion by Justice Louis Brandeis, the U. S. Supreme Court found against the State of Iowa. Abraham Slimmer, Sr., ( -1917,) resided in Iowa for the last five years of his life and left an estate of $550,000. Abraham Slimmer was noted for his generosity, including converting his house into the St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital of Waverly, Iowa, in 1904 and donating $500,000 to other hospitals and charitable institutions. Charles Bechhoefer was the administrator of the Slimmer estate. The St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital became the Waverly Municipal Hospital. The Slimmer burial plot at Mount Zion Temple Cemetery in Maplewood, Minnesota, includes the graves of Abram Slimmer (1835,) Bernhard Slimmer (1909-1964,) Margarete Slimmer Neumann (1887-1942,) Karl Elsinger (1925-1950,) Jeanette G. Slimmer (1876-1966,) and Abraham Slimmer (1869-1935.) The previous owner of record of the property was Patricia M. Busch and the current owners of record of the property are the trustees of Patricia M. Busch and William R. Busch. [See note on Lockwood for 726 Summit Avenue.]
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976 Summit Avenue: Howard S. Johnson House; Built in 1911 (Sandeen and Larson;) Elizabethan/Tudor Villa/Modified Bugalow in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect. The structure is a two story, 4292 square foot, four bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 1993 for $365,000. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Johnson resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Dr. F J. Plondke resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Frederick J. Plondke, a physician who officed at 350 St. Peter Street, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Howard Johnson was a draftsman for the American Hoist & Derrick Company. The house was built for $13,250 (Sandeen; $16,000 according to Larson.) The American Hoist & Derrick Company (Amhoist) began in 1880 as the Franklin Manufacturing Company, a heavy equipment repair business that was established by Oliver T. Crosby and Frank Johnson at 459 South Robert Street in St. Paul. The company initially was involved in the maintainence and repair of logging & iron ore mining equipment. In 1883, renamed the American Manufacturing Company, the firm began to manufacture hand and horse-powered hoisting equipment. The company was awarded its first patent for the friction drum used in their hoists in 1885, when the company expanded its line of hosting equipment for quarrying to include a variety of construction equipment. In 1886, Oliver T. Crosby, the company's chief engineer for nearly 40 years, invented the Crosby Clip, a device used for fastening wire rope. In 1887, the company moved to 63 South Robert Street in St. Paul. In 1892, renamed the American Hoist & Derrick Company, it opened a second office and distribution facility in Chicago. The company built the largest locomotive crane in the world in 1895 for the U.S. Navy Yard in Mare Island, California, which was a behemoth that had a lifting capacity of 45 tons, carried a 75-foot boom, weighed 400 tons, and cost $50,000. American Hoist and Derrick became a major supplier of marine deck equipment for both merchant and naval ships during World War I, with 500 American hoists and 500 American derricks at work in the 50 shipways of the Hog Island Navy Yard near Philadelphia alone. After World War I, the company returned to their major markets in the logging, railroad and construction industries. Beginning in 1955, Amhoist began a tremendous period of growth through acquisition of 18 other companies, becoming a diversified corporation which included businesses such as Coast-to-Coast Hardware, Laughlin, Wayne Crane, McKissick, Cleveland Trencher, and Mechanical Excavators. American Hoist & Derrick moved from St. Paul to Willmington, North Carolina, in the early 1980's. The Amhoist industrial site on the West Side Flats has since been purchased by the City of Saint Paul and a by a private developer. In 1991, Amhoist renamed itself as Amdura Corporation, moved to Denver, and filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code. The construction equipment division, including the Crawler, Truck and Locomotive Product lines of Amdura, was sold off in 1987 and eventually became the private company American Crane Corporation, which has been a division of Terex Lifting since 1998, although the company does not make excavators, but is best known for its cranes. New products recently developed include 80 and 210-ton hydraulic lattice boom crawler cranes. In Minnesota, the company is still represented by Advance Industrial Sales, Inc., in Hibbing, Minnesota, and by Hayden Murphy Equipment, Inc., in Minneapolis. The former Amdura Corporation is now out of business. The current owner of record of the property is Carol Mack. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
977 Summit Avenue: Louis Silverstein House; Built in 1910 (1924 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Federal Revival/Spanish Colonial Revival in style; Peter J. Linhoff, architect. The structure is a two story, 5794 square foot, eight bedroom, four bathroom, stucco house, with a two car detached garage and a two car tuck-under garage. The 1930 city directory indicates that Louis Silverstein, president of the Louis Silverstein Company, a wholesale ladies apparel firm,his wife, Rose Silverstein, Joseph Paper, the president and general manager of Paper Calmenson & Company, his wife, Lillian Paper, David Paper, vice president and sales manager of Paper Calmenson & Company, and Mary Paper, a secretary employed by Paper Calmenson & Company, all resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Louis Silverstein was the manager of Macey's Store in St. Paul. Louis Silverstein also was a member of the St. Paul Civil Defense Advisory Committee in 1950-1951. The house was built for $25,000. The current owners of record of the property are Charles McCafferty and Norah McCafferty. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mrs. Joseph Elsinger resided at the former nearby 983 Summit Avenue. [See note on Linhoff for 361 Summit Avenue.]
985 Summit Avenue: James A. Wilson House Built in 1895 (1892 according to Ramsey County property tax records); Queen Anne/Colonial Revival/Victorian in style; J. H. Hickel, architect. The structure is a two story, 6530 square foot, 16 room, eight bedroom, three bathroom, frame house, with a pair of two car detached garages. James A. Wilson was a lumberman. The house was built for $16,000. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that James A. Wilson resided at this address from 1896 to 1898 and that Joseph Elsinger resided at this address from 1901 to 1931. Joseph Elsinger (1847-1917) was associated with the Golden Rule Department Store and lived in this house in 1914. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Elsinger, their daughters, and Karl Elsinger all resided at this address. World War I veteran Karl W. Elsinger (1892- ,) a Sergeant, resided at this address in 1919. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier’s Bonus Board (#25248) indicate that Karl W. Elsinger (1893- ,) a 1918 draftee and a Sergeant in 351st Infantry, who was born in St. Paul, had blue eyes, black hair, and a fair complexion, was 5' 8 1/2" tall, was a merchant at induction, served in the American Expeditionary Force in France, including Haute Alsace, was a merchant employed by the Golden Rule after the completion of service, and was unmarried, resided with his mother, Mary Elsinger, at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Karl W. Elsinger, a vice president for the Golden Rule, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Elsinger resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Mary Elsinger, the widow of Joseph Elsinger, resided at this address. In 1934, Phillip L. Ray, Bernice Steuerwald Ray, George Ray, and Patricia Ray resided at this address. Joseph Elsinger gave land along Como Avenue in St. Anthony Park to the Children's Home Society of Minnesota for the erection of the Jean Martin Brown Receiving Home and an attendant lawn and playground. Karl Walter Elsinger (1893- ) was the son of Joseph Elsinger, served during World War I in France with Company L of the 351st Infantry, 88th Division, United States Army, and was active with the Freemasons. Joseph Elsinger was active in the St. Paul Jewish community and was involved with the Mount Zion Cemetery over its policy. The Golden Rule Department Store continues in the form of the Golden Rule office building at 85 East Seventh Street. The six story, 300,000 square foot, building, which once housed the department store, was designed by Clarence H. Johnston, Sr. The Golden Rule Building was originally established as a store in St. Paul in 1886 and moved into a three-story building on East Seventh Street in 1891. Under the direction of Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., additions were made in 1901, 1910, and 1914, and a new facade was added. Johnston raised the older structure into its current six-story Neo-Classical Revival building by adding an elaborate cornice and classical detailing. In 1961, the store merged with Donaldson's and became Donaldson's Golden Rule. The name of the store was later shortened to Donaldson's and remained at this location until 1980, when the business moved into the Town Square complex. In 1983, the building was renovated into an office building by a local entrepreneur. The building interior includes a grand two-story atrium with a staircase spanning the first and second floors and an indoor park covers the entire first level and includes fountains and benches. By 1955, the Golden Rule, the Emporium, and Schuneman's had labor contracts with Local 2, one of the first two locals chartered by the Retail Clerks International Union in 1888. In 1959, the union was dealt a big blow when Dayton's, now the Target Corporation, bought Schuneman's, promptly terminated Local 2's contract, and petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a new union election, during which the employees voted out Local 2. In 1959, Local 2 also merged into Retail Grocery Clerks Local 789, which would eventually become United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789. James Speckman (1918- ) was a window designer for Donaldson's Golden Rule department store and an architectural delineator for Norman Johnson in 1945 while he received a degree in design and engineering from the University of Minnesota Extension Division and then became a full time architect. Samuel Dittenhofer eventually became the president of the Golden Rule Department Store and lived at 807 Summit Avenue. Phillip L. Ray was a graduate of the University of Minnesota. The Ray family were members of the Minikahda Country Club, the Somerset Club, the Women's City Club of St. Paul, and the Junior League in 1934. The current owners of record of the property are listed dually as Thomas C. Ernst and Michele J. Ernst and Diane M. Anderson and Steven C. Anderson. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
986 Summit Avenue: Leo A. Guiterman House; Built in 1889 (1904 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival/Queen Anne Rectilinear in style; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect. The structure is a two story, 5686 square foot, nine bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. Construction of the house cost $15,000 (Sandeen; $24,000 according to Larson.) The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Guiterman and their daughter resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Guiterman resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Springer H. Brooks, the president of Woodard, Brooks & Bundy, an investment securities dealer, and his wife, Edith W. Brooks, resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Springer H. Brooks (1890- ,) who attended the school from 1904 until 1906, a 1911 graduate of the Sheffield School at Yale University, a captain with the 338th Field Artillery during World War I, a broker and a partner in Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood, a member of the Minnesota Club, and a member of the White Bear Yacht Club, resided at this address. The 1987 St. Agnes Catholic Church directory indicates that Hubert Renchin and Shirley Renchin resided at this address. Springer H. Brooks married Edith Wann in 1923 and the couple had a daughter, Cynthia Brooks (1924- .) This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The house was built for Harry G. Allers. Johnston also designed a garage for this house, in 1910, at a cost of $2,000. Guiterman Brothers was a men's furnisher and a leather and woolen dealer in St. Paul. Leo Guiterman was the brother of Nathan S. Guiterman, who was a lawyer, who moved from St. Paul to New York City, and who married Carrie Louise Rosenwald. From 1879 until 1888, Leo Guiterman was a salesman for Greenhood, Bohm & Company, a Helena, Montana, clothing and liquor wholesaler with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Virginia City, Montana. In 1879, Leopold Guiterman/Leo Geuiterman was a clerk employed by Auerbach, Finch, Culbertson & Company and boarded at 191 Jackson Street. The 1880 federal census and the 1912 Minnesota Historical Society Minnesota Biographies 1655-1912 indicate that Leo A. Guiterman (1862- ,) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Alexander Guiterman (1814- ,) born in Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany, moved to St. Paul in 1876, was employed as an overseer in a store in St. Paul in 1880, married Claire __?__, was one of the organizers of Guiterman Brothers, a manufacturer of men's clothing, and became the president of Guiterman Brothers in 1897. In 1900 and 1902, Leo Guiterman's name appeared in the Billings, Montana, Gazette for delinquent taxes. Clarence Johnston worked with Leo Guiterman, a member of the Mount Zion Temple and the owner of a department store, on remodeling the store in 1905 and on the building of a house at this address in 1904. In 1914, Guiterman Brothers was located at 346-362 Sibley Street, with Leo Guiterman as its president and with A. Guiterman as its treasurer and buyer. In 1906, Ambrose Guiterman was a member of the 51 member American Jewish Committee, organized for the protection, the preservation and the extension of the civil and religious rights and privileges of Jews, representing, with Henry M. Butzel of Detroit, Victor Rosewater of Omaha, Nebraska, and Max Landauer of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the nine Upper Midwest state Sixth District, but resigned from the organization in 1908. In 1914, Ambrose Guiterman (1852- ) was the president of the Minnesota Knitting Mills Company, located at 282 East Seventh Street. In 1917, Guiterman Brothers unsuccessfully sued Finch, Van Slyck & McConville over a patent infringement over a knit collar piece in Guiterman Brothers v. Finch, Van Slyck & McConville in Minnesota federal District Court and in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ambrose Guiterman was a member of the Minnesota Historical Society in 1917. The 1920 federal census indicates that Leo mGuiterman and his wife, Claire Guiterman, resided in St. Paul. The earliest trademark for a "windbreaker" was issued in 1923 to Guiterman Brothers for its leather jackets and vests. Guiterman Brothers, Inc., remained in business until at least 1969. The current owner of record of the property is Deidre R. Kronschnabel. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
990 Summit Avenue: Henry Glassbrook Allen and Ruth Allen House; Built in 1916 (1917 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style; Thomas G. Holyoke, architect for the original building, and Harry Schroeder, architect for the 1966 additions. The structure is now a commercial property, with a detached garage. The house was built for $20,000. The three story, 12671 square foot, mansion has 25 rooms, 10 bathrooms, and seven fireplaces. The grounds include a carriage house. Both buildings have brick exteriors, faced with Bedford stone, slate roofs, and copper gutters and flashing. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Henry G. Allen, Sr., resided at this address from 1917 to 1926 and that Shreve M. Archer resided at this address from 1929 to 1949. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Allen resided at this address. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier’s Bonus Board (#19066) indicate that H. G. Allen, the brother of World War I veteran John H. Allen, resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Henry G. Allen, the president of J. H. Allen & Company, resided at this address and Jno H. Allen, Jr., a student boarded at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Allen, their daughter, H. G. Allen, Jr., Harry Allen, and Jack Allen all resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Shreve H. Archer, and his wife, Doris C. Archer, resided at this address. In 1934, Shreve M. Archer, Sr., Doris Cowley Archer, Georgianna Archer, Barbara Archer, Shreve M. Archer, Jr., and Doris Archer resided at this address and were prominent members of St. Paul society. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Shreve McL. Archer, a member of the Class of 1902, a 1910 graduate of Yale University, and an employee by Archer-Daniels Midland Company, resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Shreve McL. Archer, Sr. ( -1947,) attended the school from 1900 until 1902, and that Shreve M. Archer, Jr. (1922- ,) attended the school from 1934 until 1939, attended Princeton University, who served in the Air Force as a flying instructor, was a director of the Oil Sales Department of the Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, was a member of the Minneapolis Club, the Minneapolis J. C., and the White Bear Yacht Club, and resided at Dellwood, White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that the St. Paul College Club was located at this address from 1950. Henry G. Allen was president of J. H. Allen and Co., wholesale grocers, importers, and coffee roasters. The firm was started by his father, John H. Allen. John H. Allen (1838-1904) was born in Galena, Illinois, moved to Minnesota in 1865, settled in St. Paul, opened a wholesale grocery business, and died in St. Paul. John H. Allen was a partner in Allen, Moon, and Co., wholesale grocers, and lived at 335 Summit Avenue. Henry G. Allen (1872-1939) was born in St. Paul, was a member of the Commercial Club and of the Minnesota Club, and died in St. Paul. John H. Allen was a wholesale grocer who was born at Galena, Illinois, in 1838 and died in St. Paul in 1904. The property was purchased by Shreve Archer and Doris Archer in 1927. In their 22 year tenure in the house, the Archers made a number of additions, including adding an Art Deco second floor bathroom. Shreve Archer was the president of Archer, Daniels, Midland Company, which manufactured linseed oil and paint. Shreve M. Archer, Jr., who was a member of the ADM Board since 1948, retired as a member of the Board of Directors in 1998 and was elected as a Director Emeritus. The St. Paul Branch of the American Association of University Women purchased the house in December, 1949, and made a number of changes, including a 1966 addition of Hatfield Hall. In 1902, George P. Archer and John W. Daniels began a linseed crushing business. In 1923, Archer-Daniels Linseed Company acquired Midland Linseed Products Company, and Archer-Daniels-Midland Company was formed. ADM has a worldwide transportation network and has more than 268 domestic and international plants, has 23,603 employees, has $14 Billion in sales, and $266 million in income. ADM's sales in 1997 were 56 percent in oilseed products, 15 percent in maize products, 11 percent in wheat and other milled products, and 18 percent in other products. As a grain trader, ADM dwarfs its farmer suppliers, and is able to dictate the economic terms that suit it. ADM, like the other grain traders, has focused heavily on the accumulation of political power - which it has largely achieved through the personal connections of former chairman and CEO Dwayne Andreas. ADM is helped along by several U. S. government programs, including:
1) maize subsidies - they provide stability in a volatile market;
2) the sugar program - by limiting US sugar production, the government keeps the price high, and so keeps customers like Coca-Cola favouring ADM's maize sweeteners over cane sugar; and
3) ethanol subsidy - the most significant subsidy, which is a tax credit to producers of ethanol that is used as car fuel, amounting to $3.5 billion over 5 years (half goes to ADM.)
On the ADM Board in the mid-1990's with Shreve Archer were Dwayne Andreas (president in 1966, CEO until 1997, and chairman until 1999; Director of Hollinger International, Inc.), Ralph Bruce, John Daniels (Chairman Emeritus; grandson of one of the founders,) Lowell Andreas, Martin Andreas (Senior Vice President and an Assistant to the CEO,) Michael Andreas (Senior Vice President, once jailed for price fixing,) H. D. Hale, James Randall, Gaylor Coan (Chief Executive Officer of Gold Kist Inc.; a Director of SunTrust Banks Inc. and Cotton States Life Insurance Company,) John Vanier (Executive Officer, Western Star Agricultural Resources, Inc.,) M. Brian Mulroney (Senior Partner in the law firm of Ogilvy Renault, Director of Barrick Gold Corporation, Petrofina S.A., The TrizecHahn Corporation, Cendant Corporation, and Quebecor Printing, Inc., and former Prime Minister of Canada,) Margaretta "Happy" Rockefeller (widow of former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller,) Glenn Webb (chairman and chief executive of Growmark Inc.,) Ross Johnson, Ray Goldberg, and Robert Strauss (partner in the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld and a Director of Hollinger International, Inc. and Gulfstream.) John Shreve Archer (1864-1901) was born in Dayton, Ohio, and was the son of one of the first linseed oil manufacturers in the United States and invented and patented much of the machinery used in linseed oil manufacture. Schroeder was associated with the architectural firm of Buetow Associates. The current owner of record of the property is the St. Paul Branch of the American Association of University Women. [See note on Holyoke for 500 Summit Avenue.]
999 Summit Avenue: Built in 2006; Reed Robinson, architect. The structure is a two story, 3137 square foot, ten room, three bedroom, three bathroom, frame house, with an attached garage. The building permit for the property was reviewed and approved by the Heritage Preservation Commission of the City of St. Paul in Spring, 2006, after modifications to the structure's turret, windows, trim, porch roof, simplified dormer, roof pitch, and front gable. The property was last sold in 2005 and the sale price was $585,000. The current owners of record of the property are Anne Wussler and Jack Wussler, who reside at 23 Chatsworth Street North. Jack Wussler resided at 1319 Hewitt Avenue in 2000 and also owned development property in Hugo, Minnesota. Jack Wussler is a competitive runner and in-line skater and Anne Wussler is a competitive runner. Jack Wussler is the owner of Jack the Carpenter Inc., a commercial and specialty carpentry firm. Anne Schaefer Wussler, the daughter of Pat Schaeffer and Larry Schaeffer, has a bachelor's degree from Macalester College in Humanities and Anthropology, an AMI Elementary Certification from the Montessori Training in Bergamo, Italy, a MALS in dance and movement studies from Wesleyan University, and an elementary teaching license and a master's degree in Education from the University of St. Thomas, was a member of the Board of Directors of World Learner Montessori School, a Charter Program in Chaska, previously taught at the Public Montessori, Crossroads School, in St. Paul, and at Lake Country School in Minneapolis, currently teaches Lower Elementary at Oak Hill Montessori School, and is a member of the Board of Directors of Oak Hill Montessori School.
1003 Summit Avenue: J. H. Burwell House; Built in 1904 (1900 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Richardsonian Romanesque/Queen Anne Rectilinear in style; A. H. Stem, architect. The structure is a two story, 6694 square foot, nine bedroom, four bathroom, stone house, with a detached garage. Construction of the house cost $15,000. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Jules H. Burwell resided at this address from 1892 to 1894. The 1893 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Jule H. Burwell resided at this address. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Michael H. Foley resided at this address from 1896 to 1936. In 1905, Edward Foley and Mrs. M. A. Ramsay resided at this address. The 1917 Catalogue of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, published by James T. Brown of New York, indicated that Edward Timothy Foley, a member of the Class of 1910 at the University of Minnesota, and a graduate of the St. Paul College of Law, a contractor, resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Michael H. Foley, his daughter, and E. T. Foley all resided at this address. The records of the 1919-1920 Minnesota World War I Soldier’s Bonus Board (#23499) indicate that Clark G. McCabe (1894- ,) a 1918 draftee and a Sergeant in Gr. B. R. U. 301st M. T. C., who was born in Dresser Junction, Wisconsin, moved to Minnesota in 1916, had blue eyes, light hair, and a light complexion, was 5' 8 1/4" tall, was a mechanic at induction, served in the American Expeditionary Force in France, was a chauffeur employed by M. H. Foley after the completion of service, and was unmarried, resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Edward T. Foley, the president of the Flour State Baking Company and the vice president of Foley Brothers Inc., and that Michael H. Foley, the president of Foley Brothers, Inc., both resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Foley resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Edward T. Foley, the president of Foley Brothers Inc., and his wife, Jean M. Foley, resided at this address. Jule H. Burwell (1846- ) was born in Franklin Mills, Ohio, served in the Third Colorado Cavalry during an Indian war in 1864, moved to St. Paul in 1878, was vice president and manager of Mast, Buford & Burwell Company, a wholesale farm machinery firm, and was one of seven St. Paul members on the committee that was given charge fo the relief work following the 1918 Hickley, Minnesota, Fire. In 1884, J. H. Burwell was alleged to have embezzled $70,000 from Mast, Buford & Burwell Company and resigned his position with the company on account of the defalcation. In 1892, J. H. Burwell was both president of and the director of the main building division of the Minnesota State Agricultural Society, which operated the Minnesota State Fair. In 1892, the Mast, Buford & Burwell Company produced the "Pirate" brand of agricultural implements. In 1921, the Archdiocese of St. Paul established the Archbishop Ireland Educational Fund as part of an ambitious building program, with its board of directors made up of Pierce Butler, Edward Foley, and Michael Waldorf. Timothy Foley contributed $500,000 to the Ireland Fund. Foley Brothers Construction received the $3.75 million contract to build the Nazareth Hall preparatory seminary, funded by the Ireland Fund. Foley, Minnesota, the county seat of Benton County, was named for its proprietors, Timothy Foley, Mary Foley, Thomas Foley, Jessie A. Foley, John Foley, and Michael H. Foley, in 1898. Timothy Foley was one of four brothers with lumber and railroad interests throughout Minnesota and built the Foley/Brower/Bohmer House in St. Cloud, Minnesota, in 1898. The current owners of record of the property are Diane E. Fulmer and Gary W. Hietala. [See note on Stem for 929 Summit Avenue.]
1005 Summit Avenue: Michael H. Foley House; Built in 1906; Clarence H. Johnston, Sr., architect. The house was built for $15,000. Michael H. Foley (1845-1920) was instrumental in the founding of the city of Foley, Minnesota, the county seat of Benton County, platted in 1898, with Timothy Foley (1838-1920,) Mary Foley, Thomas Foley (1840-1907,) Jessie A. Foley, and John R. Foley (1842-1907.) The Foleys were associated with the Foley Brothers Inc., a railroad construction firm that was established in 1887 and that performed services for the Canadian Pacific, Canadian National, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, St. Paul Union Depot Company, Soo Line, and other railroads, and the Foley Realty and Securities Company. Foley Brothers Inc. also worked on the Halifax ocean terminal, the Purity Baking Company, the St. Paul Cathedral, the cathedral rectory, the chancery building, the St. Paul Catholic Orphanage, and Nazareth Hall. Foley Brothers Inc. and its predecessors and successors (Foley Brothers, Foley Brothers and Guthrie, Foley Brothers and Northern Construction Company, Mann, Foley Brothers and Larson, Foley Bros., Larson and Co., Foley Brothers, Welch, and Stewart, and Foley Brothers, Welch, Stewart and Fauquier) built more than 25,000 miles of rail lines in the northern U.S. and Canada between the 1870's and the 1920's and employed as many as 50,000 men at one time. In Foley Brothers, Inc. v. Filardo, 336 U.S. 281, 69 S.Ct. 575, 93 L.Ed. 680 (1949,) the U.S. Supreme Court held that the federal Eight-Hour Law does not apply to U.S. citizens working for American firms abroad and was restricted in its application to the territorial jurisdiction of the United States. Thomas Foley also was associated with the Minnesota Commission of Conservation. Benton County was one of the original nine counties formed when Minnesota became an independent county in 1849. Seven other counties were partly formed from the original Benton County, which are Aitken, Anoka, Crow Wing, Isanti, Mille Lacs, Morrison, and Sherburne. Benton County was named in honor of Senator Thomas Hart Benton of St. Louis, Missouri. Originally, Foley was the center of a thriving lumber business and home to a sawmill. As the number of trees dwindled, the town switched to agriculture. The city was incorporated in 1900. The name "Foley" originally was O'Foghladha, and is Irish, meaning "pirate," and was the name of a tribe which lived in Ardmore County Waterford, and made a living raiding the Welsh. Timothy Foley donated a $100,000 matching gift to the Archdiocese of St. Paul in 1918 for the building of a minor seminary (high school plus two year college) for the archdiocese, Nazareth Hall on Lake Johanna in northern Ramsey County. The seminary was built over the period 1921-1961. The seminary was closed in 1970 and the 87 acre property was sold for $2,579,000 to become the current Northwestern College, the successor to the former Northwestern Bible and Missionary School and the former Northwestern Theological Seminary. William Franklin Graham, better known as Billy Graham, was a president of the institution and his connection with the college is the reason for Minneapolis having been the center for his organization for a number of decades. In 1912, Timothy Foley, Patrick Welch, and John Stewart acquired the Howe Sound & Northern Railway and renamed it the Pacific Great Eastern Railway. Edward T. Foley (1887-1968) studied at St. Thomas College and Oxford, served in World War I, was involved in the Irish War of Independence, and was a business executive with Foley Brothers Inc. who helped diversify Foley Brothers after World War I. Johnston was also retained in 1917 to design a retaining wall at a cost of $1,000. [See note on Johnston for 476 Summit Avenue.]
1006 Summit Avenue: Governor's Residence/Horace Hills Irvine House; Built in 1910 (1883 according to the National Register of Historic Places and 1911 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) English Tudor/Jacobean Revival/Tudor Revival in style; William Channing Whitney, architect. The structure is a two story, 14706 square foot, eight bedroom, five bathroom, three half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage, on a 1.5 acre lot. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The original owners and residents of this house were Horace Hills and Clotilde McCullough Irvine. The house was constructed for a cost of $50,000. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Horace H. Irvine resided at this address from 1912 to 1964. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Irvine resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Edward McCullough resided at this address in 1923. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Irvine resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Horace H. Irvine, the president of the Grand Avenue State Bank, and his wife, Clotilde Irvine, resided at this address. In 1934, Horace Hills Irvine, Clotilde McCullough Irvine, Elizabeth Irvine, Thomas Irvine, Clotilde Irvine, and Olivia Irvine resided at this address. H. H. Irvine (1878-1947) was born in Wisconsin, was the son of Thomas Irvine (1841- ) and Emily Hills Irvine (1848- ,) came to St. Paul with his parents in 1889, and graduated from Barnard College. He joined his father's business, the Thomas Irvine Lumber Company, and eventually went on to become the company president, which was associated with the Weyerhaeuser lumber business. In 1907, he married Clotilde McCullough and the couple had four children, Thomas Irvine, Elizabeth Irvine, Clotilde Irvine Moles, and Olivia Irvine Dodge. Irvine also was a Carleton College trustee from 1930 to 1947. H. H. Irvine was a staunch Republican and his wife, Clotidle McCullough Irvine, was a Democrat. The Irvine family were members of the Minneapolis Club, the White Bear Yacht Club, the St. Paul Athletic Club, and the Somerset Club in 1934 and summered on Manitou Island in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. After H. H. Irvine's death, Clotilde Irvine continued to live in the house until her death in 1964. Her daughters gave the house to the State of Minnesota for use as the governor's residence in 1965 and Governor Wendell Anderson was the first governor to live in the house. The building offically became the Minnesota State Ceremonial Building and is used for offical receptions and dinners and for lodging visiting dignitaries, as well as being the governor's residence. Notable visitors to the house included the Scandinavian royalty, American political royalty such as Eleanor Roosevelt and the Gores, and celebrities such as Sophia Loren, Jack Nicholson, and Sean Penn. Thomas Irvine, a Canadian by birth, was the superintendent and secretary of the Beef Slough Boom Company, Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, was engaged in the lumber business with Benjamin Hershey/Herschie, and also was the secretary of the Chippewa River (Wisconsin) Improvement Log Driving Company. There is a Clotilde Irvine Sensory Garden at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, with programs that feature an informal, hands-on experience of plants through touch, taste and smell. Olivia Irvine Dodge created the Thomas Irvine Dodge Nature Center, a 320 acre nature preserve in West Saint Paul that provides environmental education and outdoor experiences, in 1967 and also created the Irvine Nature Center in Stevenson, Maryland. The Olivia Irvine Dodge Conservation Award is presented to Marylanders who have demonstrated a commitment to environmental education and conservation. Whitney's other designs include the Minneapolis Club and Abbott Hospital. Some 5000 Minnesotans each year visit the Governor's Mansion. The Horace Hills Irvine House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Clotilde McCullough Irvine was the daughter of E. B. McCullough of Memphis Tennessee and married Horace Hills Irvine in 1907 in Minneapolis. Horace Hills Irvine (1878-1947,) the son of Thomas Irvine (1841- ) and Emily Almira Hills Irvine (1847-1899,) was born in Alma, Wisconsin, graduated from the St. Paul public schools, graduated from Barnard College, joined the family lumber business, was a political independent, was a lawyer, was president of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, was a member of the Minnesota Club, was a member of the Town and Country Club, was a member of the University Club, was a Mason and belonged to the Summit Lodge, Palladin Commandery, and the Osman Temple Shrine, was a Carleton College trustee from 1930 to 1947, and died in Ramsey County. The McCullough burial plot at Oakland Cemetery includes the graves of Edward Benjamin McCullough (1852-1941) and Belle Gerturde McCullough (1860-1923.) The property is owned by the State of Minnesota. [See note on Whitney for 2116 Second Avenue South.]
1009 Summit Avenue: William Bannon House; Built in 1901 (1896 according to the National Register of Historic Places and 1902 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Queen Anne/Tudor Revival/Victorian in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The structure is a two story, 3622 square foot, five bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1903 city directory indicates that Annie Bannon, a cashier with Bannon & Company, boarded at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. William Bannon, their daughter, and Miss Anna Bannon all resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that William Bannon resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. William Bannon resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that William Bannon and his wife, Clara Bannon, resided at this address. William Bannon (1851-1936) was the owner of the Bannon & Co. Department Store in St. Paul. The Bannon & Company store was a five story building located at the corner of Minnesota Street and West Seventh Street and has been demolished. Bannon was born in Ireland and died in Ramsey County. Anna Bannon ( -1924) died in Ramsey County. The house was built for $12,000. The previous owners of record of the property were Mary E. O'Toole and Terrance S. O'Toole and the current owner of record is James Rowland. [See note on Lockwood for 726 Summit Avenue.]
1017 Summit Avenue: Frank J. Bowlin House; Built in 1913 (1901 according to the National Register of Historic Places and 1915 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival in style; Ernest Hartford and Silas Jacobson, architects. The structure is a two story, 5290 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Frank J. Bowlin resided at this address from 1914 to 1962. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Bowlin resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Frank J. Bowlin, the vice president of the Bowlin Realty Company, resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Bowlin resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Frank J. Bowlin, the president of the Bowlin Realty Company, and his wife, Cecelia Bowlin, and Angela C. Bowlin, a clerk, resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Frank J. Bowlin, a member of the Class of 1935, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The original owner of the house was R. J. Bowlin. Bowlin was president of Wholesale Liquors and resided at 760 Summit Avenue in 1913. The house was constructed by Bowlin as an investment property. The 1920 city directory indicates that Frank J. Bowlin was the Vice President of the Bowlin Realty Company and resided at this address. The current owners of record of the property are David P. Peterson and Susan J. Peterson. Henry T. Puvogel had a florist business at the nearby former 1021 Summit Avenue in 1892. [See note on Jacobson for 1490 Summit Avenue.]
1027 Summit Avenue: Hopewell Clarke House; Built in 1913 (1887 according to the National Register of Historic Places and 1915 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Georgian Revival/Mildly Prairie Style in style; Peter J. Linhoff, architect. The structure is a two story, 5315 square foot, six bedroom, three bathroom, brick house. The house cost $16,000 to build. In 1916, Hopewell Clark was a member of the Minnesota Historical Society and resided at this address. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Hopewell Clark resided at this address. The 1920 city directory indicates that Hopewell Clark and Hopewell Clarke both resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. Hopewell Clark resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Hopewell Clarke resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. Hopewell Clarke was the chief of the Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Company expedition to the headwaters of the Mississippi River in October, 1886, which refuted the claim of Captain Willard Glazier (1841-1905) of having discovered the true source of the Mississippi River. Clarke also prepared or kept a notebook on surveys in Cass County, Minnesota. The previous owners of record of the property were the trustees for Keith V. Chilgren and T. Lynn Chilgren and the current owner of record is the board of trustees of Hamline University. [See the note for Hopewell Clark for 805 Portland Avenue.] [See note on Linhoff for 361 Summit Avenue.]
1034-1038 Summit Avenue: William W. O'Brien House, Built in 1900 (1906 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Jacobethan/Tudor Revival in style; Louis Lockwood, architect. The structure is a two story, 7162 square foot, eight bedroom, four bathroom, one half-bathroom,brick house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2005 for $1,740,500. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1889 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Renz and F. A. Renz resided at this address. The 1891 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Renz and O. M. Renz resided at this address. The 1893 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Renz, Dr. G. A. Renz, and O. M. Renz resided at this address. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Frank A. Renz and Amelia Renz (1823-1905,) who was born in Germany of German-born parents and who died of apoplexy, husband and wife, resided at 1034 Summit Avenue in 1905. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that William O'Brien resided at this address from 1907 to 1916. The 1910 city directory indicates that William W. O'Brien was the president of Putnam Lumber Company and resided at this address. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that William A. Tilden resided at this address from 1917 to 1942. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Tilden and their daughter resided at 1034 Summit Avenue. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Tilden, their daughters, and G. W. Tilden all resided at 1034 Summit Avenue. The 1930 city directory indicates that William A. Tilden, the president of the Tilden Produce Company, and his wife, Agnes Tilden, resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that George W. Tilden, who attended the school from 1916 until 1918, resided at 1034 Summit Avenue. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that a residence of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet was located at this address from 1948 to 1954 and that the Convent of St. Luke's was located at this address from 1955 to 1963. William O'Brien, initially of Stillwater, Minnesota, and later of St. Paul, was a logger and lumber baron who, before 1906, purchased a 180 acre riverfront parcel of land on the St. Croix River near Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, that was once owned by lumber companies and which was donated by Alice O'Brien, his daughter, in 1945, to the State of Minnesota as a state park in his memory. William J. O'Brien lacked any formal education, initially cut ties under contract for Frederick Weyerhaeuser, was an uncanny judge of timber and began to buy little lots of timber, became the controlling stockholder of the Putnam Lumber Company, formed the Mullery-McDonald Lumber Company of Duluth, Minnesota in 1909, purchased large tracts of timber in Florida, and built a logging railroad out of Jacksonville, Florida, that was sold to the Atlantic Coastline Railroad, eventually leading to unsuccessful litigation in the U. S. Supreme Court that caused him to leave Florida. The Carpenter-O'Brien Lumber Company was incorporated under the laws of Delaware in 1913 and had operations in Florida, with a fine sawmill plant in Eastport, Florida, to mill pine logs, which was sold to the Brooks-Scanlon Corporation. M. L. Fleischel was the chairman of the Carpenter-O'Brien Lumber Company in Jacksonville, Florida. The Carpenter-O'Brien Lumber Company had a ship, the S.S. William J. O'Brien, built to haul two million board feet of lumber per trip to its yard on Staten Island, New York, but the ship was sold to the U. S. Government during World War I. William O'Brien was the grandfather of William J. "Bill" O'Brien (1930-2007,) an investment counselor, a Conservative Caucus/Republican member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from District 45 (St. Paul) from 1963 until 1966, a Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Economic Development, a member of the Minnesota Historical Society Board, Minnesota State Auditor from 1969 to 1971, and an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Minnesota Lieutenant Governor. Thomond Robert O'Brien Sr. (1933-2007,) the developer of the Commodore Hotel and the Angus Hotel in St. Paul, emeritus trustee of the Science Museum of Minnesota, honorable lifetime trustee of the Minnesota Historical Society, chair of the Fort Snelling State Park Association, director of the Minnesota Opera, director of the Bach Society of Minnesota, board member of the Ramsey County Historical Society, and president of the University Club of St. Paul, also was a grandson of William O'Brien. In 1879, F. A. Renz was the city treasurer of the City of St. Paul. Amalia Renz (1823-1905) was born in Germany and died in Ramsey County. Frank A. Renz (1825-1907) was born in Germany and died in Ramsey County. The house was built for $25,000. The previous owners of record of the property were Elizabeth J. Houghton and William C. Houghton and the current owner of record is Barbara Jean Daquila. [See note on Lockwood for 726 Summit Avenue.]
1035 Summit Avenue: Jacob Danz House/St. Luke's Convent; Built in 1895 (1901 for the original house according to the Minnesota Historical Society and 1965 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Contemporary in style. The property is tax-exempt. The structure cost $358,000 to build. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The 1879 city directory indicates that Joseph H. Morong, a carpenter with a business located on Eighth Street between Cedar Street and Minnesota Street, resided on the North side of Summit Avenue one address East of Oxford Street. Minnesota Historical Society records indicate that Jacob Danz resided at this address from 1902 to 1903 and that Christian Fry resided at this address from 1905 to 1919. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Frederick Rudolph Welz and Christian Fry resided at this address in 1906. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Margaret Fry (1830-1909,) the widowed mother of John S. Fry, who was born in Germany to parents also born in Germany and who died of old age, resided at this address in 1909. Before the convent was built, this was the Frederick R. Welz residence in 1906. In 1917, Christian Fry and his wife, Maria J. Fry, resided at this address and were the parents of Amherst A. Fry, a World War I veteran. The 1918 city directory indicates that Dr. and Mrs. Christian Fry, their daughter, and Henry Fry all resided at this address. World War I veterans Amherst A. Fry and Henry W. Fry resided at this address in 1919. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Jefferson resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Thomas D. Hogan and his wife, Anna E. Hogan, resided at this address. The original house at this address was razed in 1964. The Fry burial plot at Oakland Cemetery includes the graves of Margaret Fry (1829-1909,) John S. Fry (1859-1936,) and Emma M. Fry (1868-1908.) Amherst A. Fry (1894-1967,) a Sargeant in the U. S. Army, is buried in the National Cemetery at Fort Snelling. Henry Fry (1888-1961,) a Corporal in the U. S. Army, is buried at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in Texas. Frederick R. Welz was the president of the Welz & Fry Hotel Company, proprietors of the Hotel Ryan. Christian Fry (1851- ) was born in Allegany County, New York, graduated from the University of Louisville Medical School in 1874, moved to St. Paul in 1883, owned a drug store, and was part owner of the Ryan Hotel from 1893 until 1904. Christian Fry was the secretary and treasurer of the Welz & Fry Hotel Company. Jacob Danz was involved in litigation with Uri L. Lamprey over duck hunting rights on a privately owned lake in Lamprey V. Danz, 86 Minn. 317 (1902.) In 1899, Jacob Danz II was the vice president of the State Game and Fish Commission. From around 1880 to 1915, the Jacob Danz Company manufactured duck and goose hunting decoys. In 1898, Jacob Danz II was issued two patents (#597051 and #649979) by the U. S. Patent Office for improvements to a pail and its handle. By 1917, Jacob Danz II had moved to Los Angeles, California, as reflected in a patent (#1141941) issued for a combined game and shell bag. The current owner of record of the property is the Jesuit Novitiate. [See note for Frederick Welz for 1883 Summit Avenue.] [See note for Uri L. Lamprey for 175 Sherman Street.]
1042 Summit Avenue: John McAnulty House; Built in 1920; Bungalow in style; McAnulty Company, architects. The structure is a one story, 1636 square foot, two bedroom, three bathroom, stucco house, with a two car tuck-under garage, which was last sold in 1999 for $285,000. The 1930 city directory indicates that William C. Burns, a salesman, and his wife, Theresa Burns, resided at this address. John McAnulty was president of the American Building Company. The current owner of record of the property is John C. Kluznik. John Kluznik contributed to the Tom Tancredo for President campaign in 2007-2008.
1046 Summit Avenue: Platt B. Walker House; Built in 1920; Tudor Villa in style; McAnulty Company, architects. The structure is a two story, 2790 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, half-bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage. The house cost $6,500 to construct. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Walker resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Platt B. Walker, Jr., a salesman, and his wife, Grace S. Walker, resided at this address. Platt Bayliss Walker was born in New Jersey and married Anstis Barlow Walker, who was a daughter of Thomas Barlow of New York City. The couple had a son, Thomas Barlow Walker (1840-1928), the founder of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1927, one of the nation's primary resources for contemporary art. Thomas B. Walker was in the lumber trade and was a very successful land speculator. T. B. Walker acquired a private European and oriental art collection (Chinese porcelains, 18th century jades, Hudson River School paintings, and Old Master paintings) so extensive in 1887 that he hired a curator and opened the doors of his home to the public. The original Walker art collection was deaccessioned in the 1960's and a collection of contemporary American works was acquired. Thomas Walker's first job was as a government surveyor for George B. Wright, which put him in touch with the timberlands that were in northern Minnesota which he gradually acquired. The old Athnaeum Library Association was developed under Walker's guidance into the Minneapolis public library and Walker was re-elected its president for 28 years. In 1890, Thomas Barlow Walker and a group of wealthy Minneapolis industrialists incorporated the Minneapolis Land and Investment Company, leading to thefounding of the city of St. Louis Park. Walker was a member of the National Arts Society an originator and a patron of the Minneapolis Fine Arts Society, the president of the Minnesota Academy of Sciences, an originator of the Business Men's union, an ardent patron of the Young Men's Christian Association, the president of the Church Extension and Methodist Social Union of Minneapolis, the president of the Flour City National Bank, and the builder of the Minneapolis Central City Market and the Commission District. In 1910, Harriet G. Hulet (Mrs. Thomas B.) Walker, the youngest daughter of Honorable Fletcher Hulet of Berea, Ohio, was the president of the Northwestern Hospital for Women and Children in Minneapolis, which was founded in 1882. The city of Walker, Minnesota, was named for Thomas Barlow Walker, the original owner of the town site and a lumberman operating in Cass County and several other northern Minnesota counties. Artist Hudson Walker is the grandson of Thomas Walker. The current owners of record of the property are Cheryl A. Johnson and Richard G. Johnson.
1058 Summit Avenue: Built in 1910. The structure is a one story, 2011 square foot, three bedroom, two bathroom, stucco house, with a detached garage, which was last sold in 2006 for $735,000. The previous owners of record of the property were J. Lawrence McIntyre and Mary E. McIntyre and the current owners of record of the property are Jane E. Baer and Bradley J. Benson.
1064 Summit Avenue: Built in 1959. The structure is a 2516 square foot, four bedroom, two bathroom, stucco splitlevel house, with a detached garage. The property was last sold in 2003 with a sale price of $437,500. The current owners of record of the property are Elizabeth Brewer and Rodney N. Brewer. Beth Brewer and Rod Brewer are the parents of Alex Brewer and Erik Brewer, French immersion school students in Independent School District No. 625, St. Paul.
1065 Summit Avenue: Saint Luke's School; Romanesque Revival in style. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District.
1068 Summit Avenue: Built in 1959. The structure is a two story, 2212 square foot, four bedroom, two bathroom, frame house, with a detached garage. The previous owners of record of the property were Monica A. Polski and David L. Sauders and the current owner of record is Robert J. Polski, Jr., who is located at 101 East Fifth Street.
1079 Summit Avenue: St. Luke's Rectory and St. Luke's Catholic Church. Church built in 1894 and Rectory built in 1924 (1952 according to Ramsey County property tax records;) Church Romanesque Revival in style and Rectory Contemporary in style. The property is tax-exempt. The 3.53 acre site contains three buildings, one, a three story, 103136 square foot, building that was built in 1950, the second, a one story, 34079 square foot, building that was built in 1918, and the third, a two story, 10269 square foot, building that was built in 1953, according to Ramsey County property tax records. Oakland Cemetery Association records indicate that Edward A. Webb (1854-1915,) the husband of Luella Webb, who was born in India to parents born in England and who died of chronic valvular heart disease, resided at this address in 1915. The 1918 and 1924 city directories indicate that Mrs. Luella Webb resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Mrs. Luella Webb, the widow of Edward A. Webb, resided at this address. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic Hill District. The current owner of record of the property is the Church of St. Luke.
1082 Summit Avenue: W. O. Washburn House; Built in 1910; Tudor Revival in style. The structure is a two story, 4681 square foot, nine bedroom, three bathroom, one half-bathroom, brick house, with a detached garage. Washburn lived here until 1923. The Griggs family was the second owner and resident of the house. The 1918 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Washburn resided at this address. The 1924 city directory indicates that Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Griggs resided at this address. The 1930 city directory indicates that Milton W. Griggs, the vice president and general manager of Griggs Cooper & Company, and his wife, Arline B. Griggs, resided at this address. In 1934, Milton W. Griggs, Arline Bayliss Griggs, Arline Griggs, Theodore Griggs, Chauncey Griggs, and Charles Griggs resided at this address and were members of the Somerset Club and of the Womens Club of St. Paul. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Charles Edward Bayliss Griggs (1917- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1928 until 1935 and who attended Yale University, Milton W. Griggs (1888- ,) who was born in St. Paul, who attended the school from 1900 until 1905, who graduated from Yale University in 1910, who served during World War I as a First Lieutenant Aviation in the Bureau of Aircraft Production, who was a member of the Minnesota Club, who was a member of the Somerset Club, who was a trustee of the Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Society, who was a trustee of the Miller Hospital, who was a director of the Chicago Great Western RailRoad, who was chairman of the Illinois Zinc Company, who was the president of the National American Wholesale Grocers Association from 1933 until 1936, and was the president of Griggs, Cooper & Company, manufacturing wholesale gracers, and Theodore W. Griggs (1914 - ,) who attended the school from 1926 until 1932, who attended the University of Minnesota in 1933, and who graduated from Yale University in 1937, all resided at this address. The 1950 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Albert L. Haman III (1929- ,) who attended the school from 1939 until 1946, who attended Harvard University, and who pursued the hobbies of music and writing, resided at this address. In 2007, Russell J. Jenson and Julie E. Jenson appealed three variances to the St. Paul Board of Zoning Appeals in order to split a parcel and create a buildable lot for a new single-family dwelling at this address. Milton W. Griggs married Arline Bayliss in Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York, in 1910 and the couple had four children, Arline Griggs (1911- ,) C. Milton Griggs (1913- ,) Theodore W. Griggs (1914- ,) and Bayliss Griggs (1917- .) W. O. Washburn was a member of a Special Minnesota Senate Investigating Committee, along with Harry Curran Wilbur, in 1923, charged with investigating Communism in Minnesota. Washburn was associated with the American Hoist & Derrick Company and was a member of the Citizen's Alliance in St. Paul in the 1920's, along with Charles W. Ames of the Public Safety Commission, E. S. Warner, one of the founders of the Minnesota Employer's Association, M. W. Waldorf of Waldorf Paper Products Co., C. G. Roth of the St. Paul Hotel, J. G. Ordway of Crane Co. of Minnesota, Frederick R. Bigelow of St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance, Cyrus P. Brown, President of First National Bank of St. Paul, Richard C. Lilly, President of Merchant's National Bank of St. Paul, W. P. Kenny of Great Northern Railway, and Leslie Gedney of Gedney Pickles. The Citizen's Alliance of St. Paul attempted to disrupt Communist and labor union activities, primarily attempting to maintain open shop employers against union demands for closed shops. The Citizen's Alliance of Ramsey & Dakota Counties was founded in 1920, harkening back to the Citizen's Association of St. Paul, an employer organization which had been active in 1903. Real estate magnate and former Ramsey County sheriff E. A. "Crape Hanger" Davidson was the primary functionary of the organization, with a $12,000 salary in 1922. Davidson had been appointed Ramsey County sheriff by Governor J. A. A. Burnquist in 1917, when the elected Sheriff John Wagener was removed by Governor Burnquist for failing to act during the streetcar operators' strike against Horace Lowry's Twin City Rapid Transit Company, and called out the recently organized business owners militia, the St. Paul Civilian Auxiliary. The St. Paul Civilian Auxiliary trained at St. Thomas Academy, then located adjoining the College of St. Thomas, with the approval and support of Archbishop John Ireland and the Catholic Church. Joseph Alfred Arner "J. A. A." Burnquist (1879-1961,) was born in Dayton, Iowa, graduated from Carleton Academy in 1898, graduated from Carleton College with a bachelor's degree in 1902, graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree in 1904, graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1905, was a Republican, was a lawyer in St. Paul, married Mary Louise Cross in 1906, was a member of Phi Betta Kappa, was a member of Delta Sigma Rho, was a member of the Order of the Coif, was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives representing Ramsey County (District 33) from 1909 to 1911, was lieutenant governor from 1913 to 1915, was Minnesota governor from 1915 to 1921, suceeding Winfield S. Hammond, who died in office, was the Minnesota attorney general from 1939 to 1955, was the presedent of the National Association of Attorneys General, and died in Minneapolis. In 1918, Congressman Charles Augustus Lindbergh, father of the famous aviator, came within 50,000 votes of defeating Governor J. A. A. Burnquist in the Republican primary. Under Burnquist, the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety was granted broad powers to protect the state and assist in the war effort and the Minnesota Home Guard was active in the surveillance of alleged subversive activities, in focusing opposition to labor unions and strikes, in locating draft evaders, in imposing a curfew on saloons and restaurants, in discouraging the use of non-English languages in schools, in registering and monitoring aliens, and suppressing political activities and civil liberties. Burnquist also was the president of the Modern Life Insurance Company and of the Plymouth Congregational Church in St. Paul. In 1918, Burnquist was involved in a prohibition controversy, The State of Minnesota, ex rel. J. A. A. Burnquist and W. F. Rhinow, relators, vs. the District Court of the State of Minnesota in and for the County of Ramsey in the Second Judicial District, respondents, 141 Minn. 1, 168 NW 634 (1918.) Governor J. A. A. Burnquist called a special session of the Minnesota Legislature and on September 8, 1919, it ratified the 19th Amendment. J. A. A. Burnquist and Mary Louise Cross Burnquist had four children, John McLean Burnquist, Mary Louise Burnquist, Ruth Mabel Burnquist, and Rowland Joseph Burnquist. William F. Rhinow (1878-1956) was the Minnesota Adjutant General in 1918 and was influential in the creation of the Minnesota Air National Guard. Milton Griggs was a graduate of Yale University. The current owner of record of the property is Julie Elszinger Jensen. Julie Jensen is the communications manager for St. Paul-based Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco.
1088 Summit Avenue: Built in 1922. The structure is a two story, 2560 square foot, six bedroom, two bathroom, half-bathroom, stucco house, with a one-car tuck-under garage. The 1930 city directory indicates that Jacob B. Weiss, his wife, Yetta Weiss, Arthur T. Purcell, assistant sales manager employed by Robinson Straus & Company, and his wife, Alice Purcell, all resided at this address. The 1939 St. Paul Academy Alumni Directory indicates that Joseph W. Milton (1903- ,) who attended the school from 1916 until 1921, resided at this address. The previous owners of record of the property were Matthew J. Schumacher and Michelle Jo Schumacher, who resided in Shorewood, Minnesota, and the current owner of record of the property is Matthew John Schumacher, who resides in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. Katherine A. Conlin, a lobbyist for the Minnesota Catholic Conference since 2007, graduated from the College of St. Benedict in 2002 and is located at this address.
1096 Summit Avenue: Built in 1922; Dutch Colonial in style; American Building Company, architect and builder. The structure is a two story, 2122 square foot, four bedroom, two bathroom, aluminum/vinyl-sided house, with a two car tuck-under garage, which was last sold in 1999 for $247,000. The house cost $6,500 to build. The 1930 city directory indicates that Daniel E. Dwyer, Jr., the president of Dwyer-Maas Company, insurance agents, his wife, Betty M. Dwyer, and George Herman resided at this address. The current owners of record of the property are Joseph M. Manion and Mary Jane Manion.
1099 Summit Avenue: Saint Thomas More's School/Former St. Luke's School; Built in 1950-1951; Southern European Romanesque Revival in style. St. Luke's School originally opened in 1904 and moved to the present site of the William Mitchell Law School in 1931. The present school was constructed in 1950-1951 on a lot which the church purchased in 1946.
1099 Summit Avenue: Church of Saint Thomas More/Former St. Luke's Catholic Church; Built in 1924; Southern European Romanesque Revival in style; John T. Comes, architect. This church was built in 1924 on property that was acquired in 1917. The cost of construction was $400,000. The parish was established in 1888. The greatest asset of the building is the rose window overlooking Summit Avenue below. There is a 1922 photo of the church. On January 1, 2008, with the civil and canonical merger of the Church of Saint Luke and the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary formally became the Church of Saint Thomas More.
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