BUILDING STONES. 191 



Stone buildings in St. Paul.] 



largely, as the quarries had not penetrated below the natural weathering. 



(D.) THE USE OF STONE IN MINNESOTA. 

 STONE BUILDINGS IN ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. 



The use of stone for construction in Minnesota has but fairly begun. 

 This is owing to the lateness of the settlement of the country by Europeans, 

 and the ease with which other material has been obtained. Pine lumber 

 and brick are both abundantly and cheaply supplied. From the log house 

 of the pioneer to the elegant stone mansion of his successor of to-day there 

 is necessarily a slow change, in most of the western country, but in many 

 parts of Minnesota this change has been so rapid that a single generation 

 has witnessed both. For the purpose of making a punctuation-point in this 

 transition, so that the future may look back on a definite stage in what is 

 now the present, in the growth of the two principal cities, the following 

 statement of the use of stone in St. Paul and Minneapolis is given, based on 

 an enumeration made in 1SS1.* Every business front, was considered a 

 building ; and if a corner block had also an important entrance from the 

 cross street, that entrance was estimated as a building. 



Stone buildings in St. Paul in 1881. 



Composed entirely of limestone quarried at St. Paul (No. 28), 324. 



Of these three have iron fronts, three have granite trimmings, and four have Kasota trim- 

 mings ; and several have the rear walls of brick. This class includes many of the largest struc- 

 tures in the city : the Catholic cathedral, the Unitarian church, St. Paul's Episcopal church, St. 

 Mary's (Catholic) church, the United States custom house and post office, the Adams, Franklin 

 and Washington schools, the county jail, and other schools and churches. 



Composed entirely of Kasota stone (No. 23), 2. 



These are the Baptist church and the residence of Mr. N. W. Kittson on St. Anthony hill. 



Composed of Trenton limestone walls and fronts of Kasota? 



If any such exist they were counted either as wholly of Trenton or as of brick walls with 

 Kasota fronts. 



Composed of Trenton limestone with Frontenae fronts? 



If any such exist they were counted either as wholly of Trenton or as of brick walls with 

 Frontenae fronts. 



Composed of Trenton limestone walls and brick fronts, 82. 



Two of these have Kasota trimmings. The Windsor House is in this class. 



Composed of brick walls with fronts of Trenton limestone, 9. 



Composed of brick walls with Kasota fronts, 1. 



This is the Greve block, on Third street between Minnesota and Robert. 



Composed of brick walls and fronts of Frontenae stone (No. 13), 3. 



Composed of brick walls and fronts of granite from Minnesota, 3. 



These are the fronts of Nicols and Dean, on Third street. 



Composed of brick walls and fronts of Berea sandstone, 4. 



*The main results of this enumeration have also been furnished the United States census bureau, for 1880. 



