First off we visited James J. Hill house and learned all about the house: history and architecture. It was built on Summit Ave. in St. Paul. After looking and taking about that house for a while, we took a walk down the rest of Summit Ave. All the houses on that street and around it were beautiful. After our long walk of looking at houses we went into the St. Paul Cathedral. The Cathedral was huge and so beautiful. There was an organ player who played the whole time our tour guide tried to talk, but otherwise we learned a lot about the architecture of the place and history as well. Overall, it was a big learning experience for all of us.
James J. Hill House-
The owner of the house was James J. Hill himself. The architect was James and Mark Fitzpatrick. They were done building the house around 1891. The architect firm was Peabody & Stearns. The architectural styles used in the house were Romanesque and Richardsonian Romanesque.
Summit Ave. St. Paul-
The people who lived on Summit Ave. were mostly family of the Hill's, or other wealthy people in the area. It is a very historic street including mostly all Victorian style homes. I snapped a couple pictures of my favorite houses below..
What I learned from the tour..
The Hill's daughter's wedding gift was a house right next door to them on Summit Ave. This was also one of my favorite houses.
I also learned that their was woods across the street when the Hill's lived there, and they were scared that the Indians would come attack them at some point.
St. Paul Cathedral-
The Cathedral was so beautiful and it was built around 1841. The first service there was held on Palm Sunday, March 28, 1915. Inside the Cathedral there was different sections inside and they had put marble around a lot of places. The architecture of the place was just gorgeous and they used a lot of stain glass windows with blue in them to resemble Mother Mary.
