No site offers better views of downtown Saint Paul than the bluffs of Prospect Terrace, once the West Side’s answer to Summit Avenue.

Scanning from east to west you can see Dayton's Bluff and Indian Mounds Park; Metro State University; the lowlands (now Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary) where Trout Brook and Phalen Creek once flowed into the Mississippi; downtown Saint Paul, with the Capitol and Cathedral rising above; and downtown Minneapolis far in the distance.

The neighborhood bounded roughly by Prospect Boulevard, Isabel, Ohio, and George Streets comprises a museum of turn-of-the-century Midwestern residential architecture: Queen Annes, French Second Empires, Italianates, solid four-squares, bungalows, painted ladies, rowhouses, and tiny worker houses.