Saint Paul, Minneapolis, & Manitoba Railway Company Shops Historic District

Coordinates: 44°57′46″N 93°6′0″W / 44.96278°N 93.10000°W / 44.96278; -93.10000
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St. Paul, Minneapolis, & Manitoba Railway Company Shops Historic District
Saint Paul, Minneapolis, & Manitoba Railway Company Shops Historic District is located in Minnesota
Saint Paul, Minneapolis, & Manitoba Railway Company Shops Historic District
Saint Paul, Minneapolis, & Manitoba Railway Company Shops Historic District is located in the United States
Saint Paul, Minneapolis, & Manitoba Railway Company Shops Historic District
LocationJackson Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Coordinates44°57′46″N 93°6′0″W / 44.96278°N 93.10000°W / 44.96278; -93.10000
Built1882
NRHP reference No.86003564[1] (original)
100001228 (increase)
Significant dates
Added to NRHPDecember 21, 1987
Boundary increaseJune 19, 2017

St. Paul, Minneapolis, & Manitoba Railway Company Shops Historic District is a group of 1882 limestone maintenance buildings in Saint Paul, Minnesota. They served the Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway, which later became part of the Great Northern Railway.[2]

The buildings, located just west of the Minnesota Transportation Museum roundhouse, have been redeveloped by the Saint Paul Port Authority and are now known as the Empire Builder Business Center.[3] Roseville Township in Kandiyohi County was once Incorporated by The Minneapolis- St Paul Manitoba Railway the train station was located in Hawick. Railway bonds and Abstract information can still be found with early settlers ancestors

References[edit]

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ Nord, Mary Ann (2003). The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 0-87351-448-3.
  3. ^ "Empire Builder". Saint Paul Port Authority. Retrieved September 7, 2009.