By Mary Mergenthal
The latest in Kristin Anderson’s monthly series on St. Anthony Park history continues at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 14, at St. Anthony Park Lutheran Church, 2323 Como Ave.
Anderson, a longtime St. Anthony Park resident and professor emerita of Art & Design at Augsburg University, will discuss the history of Commonwealth Avenue. She has been taking neighborhood residents and friends on monthly visual tours of SAP history for over two years.
With different names over the past 140 years, Commonwealth Avenue has stretched from Snelling Avenue on the east to Hillside at its southwest end, crossing the Fairgrounds and the University of Minnesota-St. Paul campus before entering St. Paul at Cleveland Avenue.
Anderson’s January presentation will focus on the St. Paul stretch of the street, which offers some very old and also some relatively new houses, a few institutional structures, the sites of important “lost” buildings and quite a few interesting residents.
The talk is free and open to all, including interested friends and neighbors.
Besides the in-person session at the church, the talk also can be accessed live online, with a recording available for one week after the session. Use the SAPLC YouTube channel at bit.ly/Sap-history.
You can also get to the church’s YouTube channel by clicking through from saplc.org to the Worship link, and then to the livestream link.
Mary Mergenthal lives in St. Anthony Park and is a former editor of the Bugle. She is also the Bugle’s obituaries editor.
Photo cutline: The Arthur and Mary Reeves House (1906). Photo by Kristin Anderson.
