By Mary Mergenthal
The latest in Kristin Anderson’s monthly series on St. Anthony Park architectural and neighborhood history continues at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 13, at St. Anthony Park Lutheran Church, 2323 Como Ave.
Anderson’s topic for January is “The State Fairgrounds: St. Anthony Park’s Big Neighbor.”
Just as the St. Anthony Park Company built its first houses, stores and factories in 1885, the Minnesota State Fair settled on its permanent grounds just to the east. The neighborhood and the fairgrounds — and their intervening neighbor, the University’s St. Paul campus — have grown up together over the past 140 years.
Anderson, a longtime St. Anthony Park resident and professor emerita of Art & Design at Augsburg University, will explore the historic fairgrounds and its evolution from a handful of buildings to the complex space that is present today.
Unable to attend in person? View the presentation live online, with a recording available for one week following. Use the SAPLC YouTube channel at bit.ly/Sap-history.
Presentations are still free, but we’ll be trying an online tip jar to help support program expenses (kristinanderson.org/tipjar/). Please invite friends and neighbors.
Mary Mergenthal lives in St. Anthony Park and is a former editor of the Bugle.
