Saint Anthony Park (Saint Paul)
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- This article is about the neighborhood in Saint Paul, Minnesota. For other places named Saint Anthony in Minnesota, see St. Anthony, Minnesota
Saint Anthony Park is a neighborhood in northwest Saint Paul, Minnesota. This neighborhood is adjacent to the University of Minnesota's St. Paul Campus (in Falcon Heights), bordering Northeast Minneapolis on the west, the Minnesota State Fairgrounds on the east (in Falcon Heights), and the suburbs of Falcon Heights and Lauderdale to the north.
Originally set out as estates for the wealthy of Minneapolis in the late 1800s, it has become a neighborhood of people with diverse backgrounds. It is centrally located in the Twin Cities. The St. Anthony Park Branch Library, a Carnegie library built in 1917, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was expanded in 1999 with a children's wing. The St. Anthony Park Elementary School and Murray Junior High School (formerly Murray High School) are the schools in the neighborhood. Saint Anthony Park was the home to three Minnesota governors (William Rainey Marshall, 1866–70; Andrew Ryan McGill, 1887–1889; and Elmer L. Andersen; 1961–63).
St. Anthony Park is home to Luther Seminary, it is also located near the "Saint Paul" Campus (actually located in Falcon Heights) of the University of Minnesota.
The largest area park, Langford Park, is named for former Saint Anthony Park resident Nathaniel P. Langford, who helped create the world's first national park (Yellowstone National Park). Other well known former Saint Anthony Park residents include: author, humorist and radio show host Garrison Keillor; Nobel Prize winning author, Saul Bellow; children's author, Carol Ryrie Brink; John F. Kennedy Chairman of Council of Economic Advisors Walter Heller; physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, Lewis Thomas; psychologist B.F. Skinner; presidential advisor Eugene Z. Young; and architect, Sarah Susanka.
Saint Anthony Park hosts its own 4th of July parade, which is followed by an all-day, all-neighborhood party in Langford Park. Langford Park, is a 9.6 acre park that also includes a recreation center that offers hockey, baseball, basketball, indoor and outdoor soccer and tennis. The area holds a playground, two tennis courts, indoor and outdoor basketball courts, and two baseball fields that are flooded in the winter to make two hockey rinks and one general skating rink.
