Pioneer Building

2011 | Best Old Building

Urban renewal in the 1950s and '60s annihilated so many of the Twin Cities' most awe-inspiring buildings that the continued existence of a structure like the Pioneer Building--listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974--is some kind of miracle. St. Paul's first skyscraper, built in 1889, when the sky was only a dozen stories up, is an unusual, relatively low-key cornerstone of the capital city, a remnant of the time when it was still considered a frontier town.... More »