St. Paul, MN Photos

Victorian Row House

Located in an older part of St. Paul and if you know St. Paul you know that the double digit addresses are near downtown.  The home I live in has the first three digit address on the block.  For some reason they skipped a bunch of numbers.

This old row house is missing a pillar.  It looks like they are fixing up the porches a bit.

Victorian

This house is a small one and it used to be painted  black and white. I like it better this way.

LeDuc Estate - Hastings Minnesota

The first day of March has me thinking about how wonderful it would be to take photos of architecture without snow in them.  There are some advantages to this time of year.  In the summer this shot would have showed more tree than building but I long for green grass, flowers and warm weather.

The home pictured is part of the DeLuc Estate in Hastings Minnesota, and is in the Gothic revival architectural style. Kind of busy but I like the combination of wood and brick, and those wonderful huge old oak trees.    Hastings is a small town of about 30,00o.  There are many wonderful historic buildings churches and houses to photograph.  I need to go there more often.

Gingerbread on a shed

They don’t make them like this anymore. This shed is in Hastings MN and part of the historic and well preserved LeDuc estate.  The buildings are Gothic revival.  Hastings is just south of St. Paul on the Mississippi river.  This barn isn’t as pretty as the house but I liked the shadows on it from the ancient oak trees the surround it.

The Rossmor

I list units in this building on a regular basis. With each listing I attempt to get a decent photo of the outside of the building.  This is my best to date but it isn’t quite there yet.  The building is a big rectangle and it is on a hill.  There isn’t any place to stand that is far enough away from the building to get it all in so the camera is always at an angle which doesn’t work so well with a wide angle lens.  I know I don’t have to get the entire building in the photo but it looks better having it all in the photo or most of it than part of it.

The Rossmor is a block long.  It was a shoe factory until it was converted into artists lofts.  I like the lofts in the Rossmor, they are big, clean and simple.  The last shot I took of the exterior was my second most stolen photo. I even found it on a flier the back door advertising a loft for sale.  It will be interesting to see if this one gets lifted too.

Nina's Coffee Cafe

There are so many choices when it comes to what to take photos of and what angle to use and then how to process them.  I decided to straighten this one because it was crooked but in doing so part of the sign got cropped.  It is now Ina’s offee shop.  I think I made the right choice.