Sebastian Brenhoffer
Occupation:
Dale and Bumgardner Payroll. Sebastian Brenhoffer was born in Hungary in 1880 and 1878 and emigrated in 1902. He worked as laborers on grading the Capitol grounds.
Individual Stories
William Brink
Occupation:
William Brink was born in Pennsylvania in 1851 and was an independent building contractor in St. Paul before and after he acted as a supervisor for construction at the Capitol.
L. Brinkley
Occupation:
1905 Payroll and City Directory. L.W. Brinkley was an itinerant carpenter and member of Local 87 when he lived here. He also lived at 94 Van Buren
Joseph Brown
Occupation:
Joseph Brown was a tile layer and apparently brought in to work on the Guastavino tile. He lived at this address with two other tile layers, Pietro Carceno and Laureano Laguillo.
Frederick Bucholtz
Occupation:
1904-1905 Butler Bros. Payroll. 1904 City Directory. Frederick Bucholtz worked as a laborer on the Capitol. Frederick Bucholtz was born in Germany in 1866 and came to Minnesota in 1893. He and his wife, Marie, were married in St. Paul and they raised a family here.
Casiville Bullard
Occupation:
A stone mason and bricklayer by trade, Casiville Bullard is probably the best known worker from the State Capitol construction. Born in Tennesee in 1871 and the son of former slaves, he was the eldest in a family of seven children. As a child he picked cotton with his parents and was instructed in bricklaying and masonry by an uncle, becoming skilled at laying brick, marble, and granite. He moved to Saint Paul in the late 19th century to work on the Minnesota State Capitol Building.
Louis Bumgardner
Occupation:
Louis Bumgardner was a partner of Dale and Bumgardner, the firm that did the grading of the Capitol grounds. He was born in Ohio in 1858, moved to Minnesota, married, and raised a family here working as a contractor for the rail roads. Louis Bumgardner lived a long life and died in St. Paul in 1955 at the age of 96. (Lookout Place was located about where Sims is now.)
John Burke
Occupation:
Dale and Bumgardner Payroll. John Burke was born in Minnesota of Irish parents in 1875. He worked as a laborer on grading the Capitol grounds.
Daniel Burns
Occupation:
1902 City Directory. Daniel Burns worked on the Capitol as a laborer.
John Burt
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Emil Swanson also lived here in 1901.