Jackson Street Shops, Paint Shop, 45 East Pennsylvania Avenue, Saint Paul, Ramsey County, MN
Summary
1985 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention
Significance: The Jackson Street Shops are the oldest known railroad maintenance structures in Minnesota, built for James J. Hill's St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company. This railroad was the predecessor of the Great Northern Railway, Hill's first trans-continental line. The Paint Shop is a component of the only known shop complex in Minnesota to be built entirely of limestone.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-23
Survey number: HABS MN-67-H
Building/structure dates: 1885 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1985 Demolished
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Brodie, James
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railroad
Carlson, J M
Hill, James J
University of Minnesota, School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture, sponsor
Dunwiddie, Foster W, project manager
Geiger, Donald J, delineator
Location
minnesota, 44.96075, -93.10152
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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