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Euclid View Flats

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Built
  
1894–95

Area
  
850 m²

NRHP Reference #
  
13001170

Added to NRHP
  
10 February 2014

Euclid View Flats

Location
  
234–238 Bates Avenue Saint Paul, Minnesota

Architectural styles
  
Romanesque Revival architecture, American Queen Anne style

Similar
  
Roy Wilkins Auditorium, Minnesota History Center, Como Lake, Mount Zion Temple, Minnesota Transportation Museum

Euclid View Flats is a historic apartment building in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, constructed 1894–1895. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its local significance in architecture. Euclid View Flats is a sophisticated early example of an apartment building designed to attract the middle class. Prior to the 1890s, multi-family housing in the United States was overwhelmingly in the form of tenements catering to the poor. Euclid View Flats provided an acceptable alternative to the single-family houses that dominated middle-class residential options in Saint Paul and the Dayton's Bluff neighborhood in particular. In addition to representing a change in housing preferences, the building reveals in its transitional architecture a shift from the highly ornamented Queen Anne style to the more restrained Romanesque Revival style during the same period.

Euclid View Flats is currently being rehabilitated, with plans to offer all 12 units as affordable housing. The building had fallen into some disrepair and was then vacant beginning in 2010.

References

Euclid View Flats Wikipedia