St. Anthony, also known as Saint Anthony Village, is a city in
Hennepin and
Ramsey
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counties in the
U.S. state
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of
Minnesota
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. At the
2010 census the population was 8,226,
of whom 5,156 lived in the larger Hennepin County part of the city and 3,070 in the Ramsey County part. The city is run by a five-member council consisting of a mayor and four council members who serve four-year terms.
History
St. Anthony's origins date to 1838, when
Franklin Steele
Franklin Steele (1813 – September 10, 1880) was an early settler of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, of Scottish descent, Steele worked in the Lancaster post office as a young man, where he once met James Bucha ...
, a storekeeper at
Fort Snelling
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, made a claim on the land east of
St. Anthony Falls
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. Steele did not begin developing the land until 1848, but it quickly became a center of milling and trade much like the neighboring town of Minneapolis on the land west of the falls. In 1858 the town was formally organized as the Township of St. Anthony.
In 1872, Minneapolis annexed most of St. Anthony (much of present-day
Northeast Minneapolis
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). Roughly of mostly agricultural land north of the city retained the name St. Anthony but remained unincorporated. In 1945, the township's residents voted 167–57 in favor of incorporating as a village. The state challenged this decision on the basis that St. Anthony was too agricultural and rural, but it was upheld by the
Minnesota Supreme Court
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History
The court wa ...
. As the city's suburbs grew outward, St. Anthony evolved from a rural township to an
inner suburb
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.
St. Anthony was the home of
Apache Plaza
Silver Lake Village is a mixed-use development in the city of St. Anthony, Minnesota, United States. It was constructed beginning in 2004 as a $150 million plan to replace Apache Plaza, an aging enclosed mall. Its design is meant to resemble a "wa ...
, the tenth indoor shopping mall in United States, which opened in October 1961. The oldest,
Southdale, lay only to the south and was completed in October 1956. Built in the 1950s, the St. Anthony Shopping Center was Minnesota's first
strip mall
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and was owned by the
Batista
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family of Cuba.
In the spring of 2006, the
St. Anthony Village High School
St. Anthony Village High School is a public high school in St. Anthony, Minnesota, St. Anthony Village, Minnesota, United States.
School Overview
St. Anthony Village High School is ranked 14th within Minnesota, according to US News. Students have ...
Huskies claimed ISD 282's first state baseball championship. The Huskies won the championship again in 2008. The school has also won five Class AA state championships in
Knowledge Bowl
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and has won one Minnesota Science Bowl competition.
Geography
St. Anthony is northeast of downtown Minneapolis. According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water.
One of St. Anthony's longest and most widely used streets is Silver Lake Road. Named for Silver Lake in the northwest part of the city, it runs the length of St. Anthony from north to south. County Highway 88 is another of the city's main routes.
Interstate 35W skims through the south near the St. Anthony Boulevard exit.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the 2010
census
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,
there were 8,226 people, 3,848 households, and 2,054 families residing in the city. The
population density
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was . There were 4,098 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 85.1%
White
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, 5.0%
African American
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, 0.6%
Native American, 5.9%
Asian
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, 0.1%
Pacific Islander
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, 1.0% from
other races
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Other or The Other may also refer to:
Film and television
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, and 2.3% from two or more races.
Hispanic
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The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to Vic ...
or
Latino
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* Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States
* The people or cultures of Latin America;
** Latin A ...
of any race were 2.9% of the population.
There were 3,848 households, of which 21.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.5% were
married couples
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living together, 7.7% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.2% had a male householder with no wife present, and 46.6% were non-families. 39.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 19.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.11 and the average family size was 2.83.
The median age in the city was 43.1 years. 17.5% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.5% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 26.1% were from 25 to 44; 26.4% were from 45 to 64; and 21.4% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 46.1% male and 53.9% female.
2000 census
As of the
2000 census, there were 8,012 people, 3,697 households, and 2,007 families residing in the city. The
population density
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was 3,513.8 people per square mile (1,356.8/km
2). There were 3,812 housing units at an average density of 1,671.8 per square mile (645.5/km
2). The racial makeup of the city was 90.58%
White
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, 2.06%
African American
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, 0.64%
Native American, 4.51%
Asian
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, 0.02%
Pacific Islander
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, 0.79% from
other races
Other often refers to:
* Other (philosophy), a concept in psychology and philosophy
Other or The Other may also refer to:
Film and television
* ''The Other'' (1913 film), a German silent film directed by Max Mack
* ''The Other'' (1930 film), a ...
, and 1.41% from two or more races.
Hispanic
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The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to Vic ...
or
Latino
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* Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States
* The people or cultures of Latin America;
** Latin A ...
of any race were 1.65% of the population. 20.5% were of
German
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**Ger ...
, 12.6%
Norwegian
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, 10.5%
Swedish
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, 8.7%
Polish
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and 6.3%
Irish
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ancestry.
There were 3,697 households, out of which 20.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.7% were
married couples
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living together, 7.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 45.7% were non-families. 38.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 18.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.11 and the average family size was 2.83.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 18.0% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 26.2% from 25 to 44, 21.9% from 45 to 64, and 25.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females, there were 85.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 79.5 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $46,883, and the median income for a family was $62,500. Males had a median income of $43,043 versus $31,304 for females. The
per capita income
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Per capita i ...
for the city was $26,290. About 2.8% of families and 5.1% of the population were below the
poverty line
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, including 5.0% of those under age 18 and 3.0% of those age 65 or over.
Education
St. Anthony is served by the
St. Anthony-New Brighton School District
St. Anthony-New Brighton School District, Minnesota Independent School District #282, is the school district serving all of St. Anthony Village and part of New Brighton, Minnesota. The current district superintendent is Dr. Renee Sbrocco Cornei ...
, ISD 282. Wilshire Park Elementary School is the district's primary school. St. Anthony Middle School serves grades 6–8.
St. Anthony Village High School
St. Anthony Village High School is a public high school in St. Anthony, Minnesota, St. Anthony Village, Minnesota, United States.
School Overview
St. Anthony Village High School is ranked 14th within Minnesota, according to US News. Students have ...
serves grades 9–12. St. Charles Borromeo offers private education for grades K–8.
Parks and recreation
St. Anthony has several city parks. The most notable is Central Park, in the center of the city near the High School and Community Center, as well as the police station, fire station and water treatment plant. Several of the high school's athletic teams host home competitions in Central Park. Smaller parks include Emerald Park, Silver Point Park, and Trillium Park. St. Anthony also has a golf course maintained by the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board and a county park,
Silverwood
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, maintained by the
Three Rivers Park District
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.
[Silverwood. Three Rivers Park District. http://www.threeriversparkdistrict.org/parks/silverwood.cfm. Accessed December 28, 2007.] Silverwood Park is on
Silver Lake
Silver is a chemical element with the Symbol (chemistry), symbol Ag (from the Latin ', derived from the Proto-Indo-European wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂erǵ-, ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47. A soft, whi ...
, which is almost entirely within St. Anthony's boundaries.
Sister city
St. Anthony Village has one
sister city
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While there are early examples of inter ...
, as designated by
Sister Cities International
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:
*
Salo, Finland
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St. Anthony dedicated Salo Park to its sister city on June 8, 2006, in its
Silver Lake Village
Silver Lake Village is a mixed-use development in the city of St. Anthony, Minnesota, United States. It was constructed beginning in 2004 as a $150 million plan to replace Apache Plaza, an aging enclosed mall. Its design is meant to resemble a "wa ...
development.
See also
*
H. Timothy ("Tim") Vakoc, former associate pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in St. Anthony, and the first U.S. military chaplain to die from wounds received in the
Iraq War
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, partof = the Iraq conflict (2003–present), I ...
*
Shooting of Philando Castile
On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile, a 32-year-old African-American man, was fatally shot during a traffic stop by police officer Jeronimo Yanez of the St. Anthony police department in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area.
Castile was ...
References
External links
Saint Anthony Village official website
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Cities in Hennepin County, Minnesota
Cities in Ramsey County, Minnesota
Cities in Minnesota
1861 establishments in Minnesota
Populated places established in 1861