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Saint Paul Police Department

1854 establishments in Minnesota TerritoryGovernment agencies established in 1854Government of Saint Paul, MinnesotaMunicipal police departments of Minnesota
Ramsey County Minnesota Incorporated and Unincorporated areas St. Paul Highlighted
Ramsey County Minnesota Incorporated and Unincorporated areas St. Paul Highlighted

The Saint Paul Police Department (SPPD) is the main law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It was established in 1854, making it the oldest police organization in the state. The SPPD is the second largest law enforcement agency in Minnesota, after the Minneapolis Police Department. The department consists of 615 sworn officers and 200 non-sworn officials. The current Chief of Police is Todd Axtell. He succeeded Thomas E. Smith, who had been the department's chief since 2010.

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Saint Paul Police Department
East 13th Street, Saint Paul Payne - Phalen

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Ramsey County Law Enforcement Center

East 13th Street
55101 Saint Paul, Payne - Phalen
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Benjamin Brunson House
Benjamin Brunson House

The Benjamin Brunson House is one of the oldest houses remaining in Saint Paul, Minnesota it was built ca. 1856 in the area known as "railroad island," being surrounded by tracks. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.Benjamin Brunson was born in 1823 in Detroit, Michigan. His father, the Rev. Alfred Brunson, was an itinerant Methodist preacher who traveled a "circuit district" along the Mississippi River between Rock Island, Illinois to Saint Anthony Falls. The elder Brunson made his permanent residence in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. In 1847, Benjamin Brunson came to the area to assist his brother, Ira, in making the first plat of the city of Saint Paul. Ira had led a number of soldiers from Fort Snelling in driving a number of squatters off the military reservation and down to the present site of the city, which was first named "Pig's Eye" after its founder Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant. The first plat is credited to Benjamin, and he surveyed many other additions to Saint Paul and prepared plats for neighboring communities in Minnesota. Brunson also served in the first Minnesota Territorial Legislature and served as a justice of the peace, a superintendent of mail carriers, a merchant at the Old Steamboat Landing, and as a civil engineer for the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad. He built his house in 1855 in Brunson's Addition to the City of Saint Paul, which was a semi-rural area at the time but is now within an inner-city warehouse and industrial district. He lived in Saint Paul until his death in 1898.

O'Donnell Shoe Company Building
O'Donnell Shoe Company Building

The O'Donnell Shoe Company Building is a former shoe factory in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009 for its significance, at the local level, in the area of industry. It was built in 1914 at a cost of $65,000, and has a frontage of 150 feet (46 m) on Sibley Street and 50 feet (15 m) on East Tenth Street. During the 1880s, the shoe industry in St. Paul was growing rapidly. In 1888, shoe manufacturing contributed $1,400,000 to the local economy, making them one of the city's top manufactured products. The Lowertown area became the wholesale and manufacturing center of Minnesota during this time. Leather was readily available from the stockyards in South St. Paul. By 1908, the shoe industry contributed between $6,500,000 and $7,000,000 to the local economy. William O'Donnell was raised by Irish immigrant farmers in Le Sueur, Minnesota and moved to St. Paul in 1879. He began work at C. Gotzian and Company in 1890, eventually becoming the manager of its subsidiary, the Minnesota Shoe Company, in 1903. O'Donnell resigned from the Gotzian firm in 1909 and incorporated his own firm with 400 employees and $100,000 in capital. The O'Donnell Shoe Company first rented quarters at 237 East Sixth Street, but in 1910 moved to a building at 510 Sibley Street. In 1914, they built a second factory directly across Sibley Street. The factory performed leather cutting on the top floor, cutting and sewing on the fifth floor, trimming and soling on the third and fourth floors, and finishing on the second floor. The basement and the first floor were used for packaging, offices, and storing finished stock. By 1928, the O'Donnell Shoe Company was the largest shoe manufacturer in Minnesota. Labor relations were initially good, with few strikes, but the shoe industry started declining by the 1920s. The stock market crash of 1929 brought many closings of shoe factories, and southern states were offering incentives to manufacturers. The Minneapolis general strike of 1934 was devastating to the region, so the O'Donnell Shoe Company moved to Humboldt, Tennessee in 1935. The building at 510 Sibley was used by the National Youth Administration from 1941 to 1944, then was used by the McGill-Warner company. That building was demolished in the 1990s. The factory at 509 Sibley was leased to the Market Seed Company and Albert Wholesale Produce, then later was used by St. Paul's branch of Goodwill Industries from the 1940s through the 1970s. In 1999, it was known as the Renaissance Box, housing a theater group and other arts, educational, non-profit, and retail functions. At the time of the nomination in 2009, Aeon was planning to remodel the building for affordable housing. Aeon slated the building for 70 affordable housing units for downtown St. Paul workers with jobs at restaurants, hospitals, or other service industries. They planned 56 units, with a mix of one- and two-bedroom apartments, for moderate income earners and 14 more units for low income earners who had been homeless. The project benefited from a Minnesota Historic Tax Credit, which is meant for buildings that are on the National Register, that have qualified for federal historic tax credits, and that produce income, typically through housing rentals. The O'Donnell Shoe Company project received $2.15 million in credits.