Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Summit Architecture
Thanks so much to Tom Blanck and Sonja Mason for the great lecture on Summit architecture on Monday night! We'll post some of the information here soon, but in the meantime, head over to our Facebook page where we've started a game of "What's this style?"
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Next SARPA Lecture - The Architecture of Summit
SARPA and Historic Saint Paul FREE Lecture Series
Next Lecture Coming Up Next Week!
The Summit Avenue Residential Preservation Association and Historic Saint Paul are excited to continue their free lecture series on the history, architecture, and preservation of Summit Avenue, widely considered the nation's best-preserved example of the Victorian monumental residential boulevard.
This series is designed to be educational — discussing the history of Summit Avenue — but also inspirational, promoting ideas for future private (and public) development. It’s also a great chance to meet and socialize with other Summit Avenue homeowners and area residents. The lectures are free, and you don’t have to be a member or Summit Avenue resident to attend.
All lectures are held at the University Club of St. Paul (a co-sponsor of the series), located at 420 Summit Avenue. Lectures begin at 7:00pm and run about an hour, with some time for socializing (cash bar) afterwards.
The first in the series, on Summit Avenue’s role in Saint Paul, was presented by Ted Lentz and was very well-received. The remaining lectures are:
Monday, October 25 – Stewardship
Summit Avenue’s architectural styles and the development of the historic districts
- Presented by architects Tom Blanck and Sonja Mason
Monday, November 22 – Enhancement
Design guidelines, appropriate work and changes, and resources, as well as planning for the future
- Presented by Amy Spong (City of St. Paul HPC) and preservation consultant Thomas R. Zahn
Next Lecture Coming Up Next Week!
The Summit Avenue Residential Preservation Association and Historic Saint Paul are excited to continue their free lecture series on the history, architecture, and preservation of Summit Avenue, widely considered the nation's best-preserved example of the Victorian monumental residential boulevard.
This series is designed to be educational — discussing the history of Summit Avenue — but also inspirational, promoting ideas for future private (and public) development. It’s also a great chance to meet and socialize with other Summit Avenue homeowners and area residents. The lectures are free, and you don’t have to be a member or Summit Avenue resident to attend.
All lectures are held at the University Club of St. Paul (a co-sponsor of the series), located at 420 Summit Avenue. Lectures begin at 7:00pm and run about an hour, with some time for socializing (cash bar) afterwards.
The first in the series, on Summit Avenue’s role in Saint Paul, was presented by Ted Lentz and was very well-received. The remaining lectures are:
Monday, October 25 – Stewardship
Summit Avenue’s architectural styles and the development of the historic districts
- Presented by architects Tom Blanck and Sonja Mason
Monday, November 22 – Enhancement
Design guidelines, appropriate work and changes, and resources, as well as planning for the future
- Presented by Amy Spong (City of St. Paul HPC) and preservation consultant Thomas R. Zahn
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
In Case You Missed It...
Here is the text from the handout from the first in our lecture series, as presented by Ted Lentz:
Summit Avenue – A History of the Street
Discovering St. Paul’s Summit Avenue
Ted Lentz, AIA
27 Sept 2010
Can you imagine finding an American street that since the 1890s has been one of the nation’s major monumental residential streets? While in the 1880s and 1890s, 5th Avenue in New York, Euclid Avenue in Cleveland and Prairie Avenue in Chicago, Woodward Avenue in Detroit and Park Avenue in Minneapolis were recognized as their city’s “millionaire’s row” only one of those distinctly American streets not only remains intact but continues to thrive with renovation of the old and addition of new compatible structures?
Wouldn’t it be great to find an American street that provided a proud resource to all of the residents a metropolitan region of 3 million people speak of this street with pride using such phrases as “a neat street of beautiful old mansions”, “the place I always take my family and friends when they visit”, “I love that street”, “The street that F. Scott Fitzgerald used as a setting for his short stories”?
We would be delighted to find an American street established after the Civil War and largely complete by the end of World War I that had a Civil War monument one end and a World War I monument at its terminus
What if this remarkable American street were 4.7 miles long with over 400 building: homes, churches, four colleges, other institutional uses but no commercial buildings?
Can you imagine finding an American street where over half of 400 buildings are rated architecturally “significant”?
Wouldn’t it be great to find an American street that provided a central spine to the largest National Historic District ever recognized by the U.S. Department of the Interior and is itself now protected by a strong active city supported Historic Planning Commission?
We would be delighted to find an American street after residents creating a restricted residential avenue prior to citywide zoning in 1917 had over 50 years of intervention by courts and city officials to reinforced the residential character of the street?
What if this remarkable American street continued to generate substantial private investment both by residents in their homes but by friends of the street in public amenities such as the $350,000+ privately raised in 2008 to complete the landscaping of a community park on the street?
Can you imagine finding an American street that retained its residential feeling even though every day by over 12,000 cars and at a least 2 historic tour buses every day?
Wouldn’t it be great to find an American street that had its own avenue residential preservation association representing all home owners along the street that served as an educational resource and as a vocal advocate for retaining and enhancing a street that residents reject the idea of creating a fossilized museum piece?
WELL - If you found yourself on St. Paul, Minnesota’s Summit Avenue you would find each of these unique characteristic & probably several more reasons for awe, delight and support.
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Summit Avenue, an important element of the urban character and a source of continued pride and delight for the greater Twin Cities Community, remains open to the public for review and delight.
Summit Avenue Residential Preservation Association (SARPA)
Summit Avenue – A History of the Street
Discovering St. Paul’s Summit Avenue
Ted Lentz, AIA
27 Sept 2010
Can you imagine finding an American street that since the 1890s has been one of the nation’s major monumental residential streets? While in the 1880s and 1890s, 5th Avenue in New York, Euclid Avenue in Cleveland and Prairie Avenue in Chicago, Woodward Avenue in Detroit and Park Avenue in Minneapolis were recognized as their city’s “millionaire’s row” only one of those distinctly American streets not only remains intact but continues to thrive with renovation of the old and addition of new compatible structures?
Wouldn’t it be great to find an American street that provided a proud resource to all of the residents a metropolitan region of 3 million people speak of this street with pride using such phrases as “a neat street of beautiful old mansions”, “the place I always take my family and friends when they visit”, “I love that street”, “The street that F. Scott Fitzgerald used as a setting for his short stories”?
We would be delighted to find an American street established after the Civil War and largely complete by the end of World War I that had a Civil War monument one end and a World War I monument at its terminus
What if this remarkable American street were 4.7 miles long with over 400 building: homes, churches, four colleges, other institutional uses but no commercial buildings?
Can you imagine finding an American street where over half of 400 buildings are rated architecturally “significant”?
Wouldn’t it be great to find an American street that provided a central spine to the largest National Historic District ever recognized by the U.S. Department of the Interior and is itself now protected by a strong active city supported Historic Planning Commission?
We would be delighted to find an American street after residents creating a restricted residential avenue prior to citywide zoning in 1917 had over 50 years of intervention by courts and city officials to reinforced the residential character of the street?
What if this remarkable American street continued to generate substantial private investment both by residents in their homes but by friends of the street in public amenities such as the $350,000+ privately raised in 2008 to complete the landscaping of a community park on the street?
Can you imagine finding an American street that retained its residential feeling even though every day by over 12,000 cars and at a least 2 historic tour buses every day?
Wouldn’t it be great to find an American street that had its own avenue residential preservation association representing all home owners along the street that served as an educational resource and as a vocal advocate for retaining and enhancing a street that residents reject the idea of creating a fossilized museum piece?
WELL - If you found yourself on St. Paul, Minnesota’s Summit Avenue you would find each of these unique characteristic & probably several more reasons for awe, delight and support.
_
Summit Avenue, an important element of the urban character and a source of continued pride and delight for the greater Twin Cities Community, remains open to the public for review and delight.
Summit Avenue Residential Preservation Association (SARPA)
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