Thread by @nomivibez, A thread Dove into some local history last night. These images [...]

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Dove into some local history last night. These images I’ve complied are structures, of which the architecture I found particularly interesting and beautiful.

Fort Snelling, St. Paul Minnesota.

Fort Snelling is a former military fortification, construction started in 1819 and was completed in 1825. Fort Snelling remained in service for nearly 40 years, until 1858 when Minnesota became the 32nd state.

Amherst H. Wilder Mansion

Amherst Wilder built his $130,000 mansion in 1887. Sadly Wilder only enjoyed the house for 7 years before his passing. Then purchased by the Archdiocese in 1918. In the summer of 1959 the church began to tear down the old “beast of burden”.

Here is the “replacement building” :

Hamms Mansion & Brewery.
St. Paul Minnesota.

Hamm established his brewery in the 1860s and in the 1880s the children erected his mansion just above the brewery. In 1954 the then vacant building was set ablaze by an arsonist and the once stunning mansion burnt to the ground.

Eichenwald Mansion.
St. Paul Minnesota.

The original building permit was filed on May 31st 1889. It was torn down in the 1930s after a series of fires.

Here is what the mansion was replaced with in the 1950s :

Ross Clarke Mansion.
St. Paul Minnesota.

Records indicate that the Clarke Mansion burned down in 1894

John F Eisenmenger Mansion.
St. Paul Minnesota.

The John F Eisenmenger Mansion was another place that was lost fairly early. In fact the only known photographs of the place are the burned out ruins from ca. 1892

R. Barden Mansion.
St. Paul Minnesota.

A very early mansion on the bluff. It was torn down around the turn of the century. The site was then filled with smaller single family homes which were also later torn down. The land is now a parking lot.