West Side

Neighborhood house

 The Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Society of Mount Zion Temple began sewing classes on the West Side around 1893 for the Yiddish-speaking immigrant Jewish women who began to arrive in St. Paul in 1882. By 1895, the sewing classes had expanded to become an Industrial School for men and moved into a...

Holy Family Maronite Catholic Church

Holy Family Maronite Church (Eastern Catholic). 204 East Robie St. (cor Ada and East Robie).

 Accounts of the formation of this congregation and its early years differ somewhat. The 1936 WPA report says that “a group of Syrians, formerly attending St. Michael’s banded together and organized this...

Congregation of the Russian Brotherhood

 According to information provided to the WPA in 1939, the congregation was organized in 1888. However, Plaut (The Jews in Minnesota, p. 116) notes that it was not formed until about a decade later, just prior to 1900. The congregation, along with the other Orthodox congregations in Saint Paul...

Clinton Avenue Methodist Church

Clinton Avenue Methodist Church was located on Clinton Avenue on Saint Paul’s West Side river flats. In 1909 the congregation installed an Estey Organ, op. 656 that, in 1919 following a merger of Methodist churches, was installed in St. Paul’s Methodist church, located on George Street. The Clinton...

Chevra Askinas

A group of ten Jewish men (minyon) living on Saint Paul’s West Side river flats first held services in 1913 in an old church located on Fillmore Avenue. A year later they formed a congregation and joined the Jewish Union of Orthodox Rabbis USA. The congregation erected a stucco and stone synagogue...