Larpenteur Avenue (Ramsey County Road 30) is a main thoroughfare in

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, United States. Originally named Minneapolis Avenue, it was renamed by the

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City Council in 1904 in honor of Auguste Louis Larpenteur, a

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and one of the original 12 citizens in the city of Saint Paul. The west end of Larpenteur Avenue is at the border with

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, immediately west of

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. Larpenteur continues east from Lauderdale through the cities of Falcon Heights, Roseville, and

, where it is an exit off of Interstate 35E and bisected by

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to the east. It ends at

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(Century Avenue North) in Maplewood at the border of Washington County. Larpenteur Avenue forms the boundary between the city of Saint Paul and its northern suburbs. Larpenteur Avenue runs along the south side of the

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at the

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and passes through the agricultural research fields on the north side of the University's Saint Paul Campus in Falcon Heights. Larpenteur Avenue continues west from Lauderdale into

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. Positionally, Larpenteur Avenue serves as "County Road A" and Roselawn Avenue as "County Road A2" in the Ramsey County's "Lettered County Roads".

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