The house at 505 Summit Avenue was built in 1896 for George Freeman. Designed by Cass Gilbert in the Medieval Rectilinear style, it is constructed of stone and cost $20,000 to build. Cass Gilbert is one of the most celebrated Victorian era…

The house at 485 Summit was built in 1907 for James and Minnesota “Minne” Macleod. The home is Tudor in style and was designed by James Macleod, who made a living as an architect. Built for a cost of $12,500, the brick and timber building has had…

The mansion at 495 Summit Avenue was built in 1881 for Cyrus and Mary Thurston. Although the architect is unknown, it is likely that the house was designed by local architect Augustus F. Gauger. Gauger experimented early on with the Queen Anne…

The large brick house at 490 Summit Avenue was built in 1883 for Addison and Martha Foster. The home is overall Romanesque in style with Queen Anne influence, and was designed by architect Clarence Johnston. The large carriage house behind the…

The large Victorian mansion located at 476 Summit Avenue was built in 1883 for Chauncey and Martha Griggs. Constructed for an estimated cost of $35,000, the house consists of twenty-four rooms. Designed by architect Clarence Johnston, the home is…

Stormwater Treatment Managing stormwater runoff is important to urban planning and environmental conservation. The site of Beacon Bluff drains an area of approximately 163 acres of stormwater that flows into the Phalen Creek tunnel and ultimately…

Stormwater facilities at the Saint Paul Port Authority’s Beacon Bluff Business Center treat rainwater as a resource that is used to recharge groundwater, irrigate landscaping, as well as enhance and protect our natural environment.  Approaches to…

This large brick house was built in 1885 for John and Julia Robertson. Constructed for a cost of $10,000, the home was designed by Charles Mould in the Queen Anne style. Charles Mould designed many buildings in the city of Saint Paul, and even more…

The house at 261 Summit was built in 1891 for H. W. Kinney. Constructed of limestone, the total cost of the house was around $14,000. It was designed by local architect Clarence Johnston and it is Neo-Gothic in style, with its arched window on the…

The house at 365 Summit Avenue was built in 1892 for Martha Bass. Martha was the widow of Jacob W. Bass, an early pioneer in Saint Paul. She married Jacob in Iowa when she was about 16, and the couple came to Saint Paul in 1847. After Jacob died in…

On the site where 421 Summit stands today, there stood a small frame house. It was purchased in 1882 by Joseph Wheelock, who the then hired architect Clarence Johnston to redesign it for him. The home was remodeled into a much larger dwelling for…

On December 31st, 1880, an article in the Saint Paul Daily Globe made a mention of William R. Marshall building a house with a mansard roof on the property of 415 Summit Avenue. Constructed for a cost of $8,500, the architect is unknown, and it is…

Originally on the site where 361 Summit stands today, was a large wood-frame house built by Charles and Lilly Bunker. It was designed by George Wirth and cost around $6,000 to build. The home was bought by Donald and Bertha Culver in 1907, and they…

The house at 370 Summit Avenue was built in 1909 for John and Mary Mitchell. Designed by Clarence Johnston, the home is Georgian in style, and cost around $15,000 to construct. John R Mitchell was born in January of 1868 in Franklin Pennsylvania.…

Previously on the site where 366 Summit Avenue stands today, stood a large mansion built for Daniel and Helen Noyes. Daniel Noyes was involved in the wholesale drug firm of “Noyes Brothers and Cutler”, where he worked with his two brothers Charles…

This brick house was built in 1886 for William and Bertha Constans for a cost of $18,400, with a $3,500 carriage house. Architect Augustus Gauger designed the home, although nothing of his original design is visible today. It was once Queen Anne in…

The house at 335 Summit was built in 1892 for John and Margaret Allen. Designed by architect J. Walter Stevens, who designed a number of Lowertown’s warehouses, the mansion is constructed of Bayfield brownstone. Queen Anne in style, it is a…

The house at 445 Summit Avenue was built in 1882 for Henry and Emma Shipman, and cost around $8,500 including the carriage house. Constructed of stone on the first story and frame construction for the second and third, the house is Queen Anne in…

On the site where 344 Summit is today, there was once a large stone mansion built for Samuel and Elizabeth Magoffin. Built at a cost of $8,000, the house was designed by local architect George Wirth in the Queen Anne style. Samuel was a local…

This large house was built in 1882 for William and Mary Dean. Costing around $15,000 to build, the home is Queen Anne in style, although the architect is unknown. After a drastic remodeling in the early 20th century, the house was almost…