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

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]

St. Paul, Minneapolis, & Manitoba Railway Company Shops Historic District
LocationJackson Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Coordinates44°57′46″N 93°6′0″W
Built1882
NRHP reference No.86003564[1] (original)
100001228 (increase)
Significant dates
Added to NRHPDecember 21, 1987
Boundary increaseJune 19, 2017

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
  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 2009-09-07.


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