Saint Paul Airport Municpal Hangar, 674 Bay Field Street, Saint Paul, Ramsey County, MN

Significance: The significance of the Municipal Hangar was identified in a request for National Register eligibility in 1991. At that time the Minnesota Historical Society determined the building to be "eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places as a property associated with the development of the air transportation industry." Only a few airports were established in Minnesota before Wold-Chamberlain in Minneapolis in 1919 and the Saint Paul Airport in 1926. The hangars built prior to 1927 at Wold-Chamberlain and other airports in the state appear to have been of wood construction, making the Municipal Hangar at the Saint Paul Airport the first steel frame airplane hangar in the state. Also, according to a survey of state airports in the book "Minnesota Aviation History: 1857-1845," the Municipal Hangar at the Saint Paul Airport appears to be the oldest and most intact airplane hangar in the state.

Survey number: HAER MN-80

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1969 - 1980

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