St. Pauls Historic Summit Avenue
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
St. Pauls Historic Summit Avenue
By (Author) Ernest R. Sandeen
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
26th April 2004
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Places and peoples: general and pictorial works
977.6581
Physical Properties
Paperback
124
Width 260mm, Height 231mm, Spine 8mm
Description
St. Paul's Historic Summit Avenue highlights the fascinating story of this boulevard, from its pre-Civil War origins, when the area was still considered wilderness, to its fashionable height at the turn of the century. Ernest R. Sandeen discusses the preservation of Summit Avenue and takes readers on a walking tour of the first and grandest mile of the street, beginning with the Cathedral of St. Paul. A second walking tour gives the reader Fitzgerald's Summit Avenue, including excerpts from his notebooks and stories describing the area. The book concludes with an index of Summit Avenue houses built through the 1970s.
Author Bio
Before his death in 1982, Ernest R. Sandeen was the James Wallace Professor of History and codirector of the Living Historical Museum at Macalester College. He served as a member of St. Paul's Historic Preservation Commission and as a partner in Lanegran, Richter, and Sandeen, an architectural preservation, design, and land-use firm.
