Temperance Street, one of the oldest streets in St. Paul, was located in the heart of the Lowertown neighborhood in 1880. The street ran north and south, just a block east of Jackson Street. The Lowertown area was built mostly in the 1850s and 1860s by St. Paul's earliest pioneers. By 1880, it was solidly built, considered a middle-class neighborhood, and had a variety of early mansions, working class houses, churches, schools, and small boarding houses and hotels, and other commercial buildings. By the late 1880s, much of the southern most part of the neighborhood had evolved to become a large railroad, manufacturing, and warehouse district. That area today is protected by Historic Preservation designations, and most of the old buildings have been converted for residential use. More than 90 % of all of the buildings in the residential section of Lowertown were demolished during the 1950s and 1960s, to make way for what is now Regions Hospital, Highways 35E and I-94. Today the remainder (south of the freeways) of the Lowertown neighborhood forms the core of one of the city's newest downtown residential development areas. Although the Lowertown neighborhood had a high concentration of Scandinavian residents in 1880, the city's largest Scandinavian population lived about a mile east of Lowertown, in and around Swede Hollow. The hollow is located just east of the most southern part of today's Payne Ave. (that part of Payne Ave. was in 1880 a part of Bradley St.) from Minnehaha Avenue, south to East Fifth St. - in the Phalen Creek Valley. Cleared of its last residents in 1956, Swede Hollow (approx. 23 acres) has been a city park since the late 1970s. Hope this helps.