About Lowertown

You begin your walk in the Commercial Core, but you will spend most of your time in Lowertown, which is the oldest section of Downtown Saint Paul. Lowertown was the engine of St. Paul's early growth as an American city, and its hippest neighborhood today. Lowertown contains many stories, all layered on top of each other: a river story; a boats-and-trains story; two tales of boom-and-bust, and another of neighborhood renaissance.