The Schubert Club , established in 1882, is a non-profit arts organization in Saint Paul, Minnesota , United States, that promotes the art of music, particularly recital music .
7-709: The Club operates the Schubert Club Museum of Musical Instruments which is located in the Landmark Center . The museum displays a changing selection of instruments, documents and music items from its collections in several gallery displays. The collections include: The Club presents eight concert series annually at various venues, runs an annual scholarship competition for music students, provides after-school music lessons, presents master classes, commissions new musical works by American composers , and produces recordings and books. The Museum and
14-517: A hipped red tile roof, steeply pitched to shed snow and adorned by numerous turrets, gables and dormers with steeply peaked roofs; cylindrical corner towers with conical turrets occupy almost every change of projection. There are two massive towers, one of which houses a clock. The exterior is almost devoid of carved detail. The interior features a five-story courtyard with skylight and rooms with 20-foot ceilings, appointed with marble and carved mahogany and oak finishes. Its Romanesque Revival architecture
21-660: Is similar to Edbrooke's Old Post Office Building in Washington D.C. John Dillinger 's girlfriend Evelyn Frechette , Alvin "Creepy" Karpis , "Doc" Barker and other members of the Barker-Karpis gang were tried in the building when it served as a federal courthouse. Judges Walter Henry Sanborn and John B. Sanborn Jr. kept their chambers here while serving on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals . U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun worked in
28-495: The administrative offices are located in the historic Landmark Center in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota. 44°56′44.14″N 93°5′49.61″W / 44.9455944°N 93.0971139°W / 44.9455944; -93.0971139 Landmark Center (St. Paul) St. Paul's historic Landmark Center , completed in 1902, originally served as the United States Post Office, Courthouse, and Custom House for
35-510: The building as a law clerk to the younger Sanborn in 1932–33. In the 1970s, a citizens' group saved the building from demolition and, guided by supervising architect Donald (Don) J. Leier , an expert in restoration architecture, restored it to its previous grandeur. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places and reopened to the public as Landmark Center in 1978. After its comprehensive 1972–78 renovation,
42-661: The center became home to many prominent Twin Cities arts organizations, now including: For a time the high school St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists also held classes on the fifth floor. It has since moved to 16 West 5th Street. The fifth floor now houses the offices of the American Composers Forum. Owned by Ramsey County, Landmark Center is managed by Minnesota Landmarks, a not-for-profit organization. Landmark Center also houses Anita's Cafe, Landmarket Gift Shop, and five galleries. The building served as
49-481: The state of Minnesota. It was designed by Willoughby J. Edbrooke , who served as Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury Department in 1891–92. Edbrooke designed a body of public architecture, much of which, like this structure, was completed after his 1896 death. Landmark Center stands at 75 West Fifth Street in Rice Park and is now an arts and culture center. The exterior is pink granite ashlar with
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