For more information, or to book a tour, please call Diane Lewis at 651-292-3230. "Rice Park" Tours
Become a tourist in your own city and enjoy Rice Park Tours this summer, featuring an exclusive look inside each building surrounding the park. Enjoy a historic and architecture tour that takes you back in time to learn the hidden secrets of the unique buildings that surround one of the cities most beloved parks. The tours are free but space is limited and a reservation is required. Tour begins at 10 am, so meet at the info desk in Landmark Center. To reserve your free space, call 651-292-3276 or email jhernandez[@]landmarkcenter.org.
"Heart of the City" Tour
Landmark Center is introducing our newest summer tour, Heart of the City Tours! Enjoy some of St. Paul’s most historic landmarks on this tour that takes you into the heart of the city. The tour will cover popular spots like Mickey’s Dinner, Candyland, the Hamm Building and more! The tour will depart from Landmark Center’s 6th street entrance, the Hamm Foyer, at 10am. These tours are free and open to the public but a reservation is required. Please call 651-292-3230 to reserve your space.
Interactive History Tours - Uncle Sam Worked Here (Click on image to go to tour.)
Funded in part by the Otto Bremer Foundation and the Best Buy Children's Foundation.
An online tour is available for those who seek an interactive history tour of this amazing building in St. Paul. The interactive tour is led by two young guides who "saw it all." (Click the image above to get started!) A teacher activity guide is also available.
Education, School and Specialty Tours
These interactive experiences can be augmented by a school tour in the actual place where history happened!
These tours are conducted by our guides for groups of 10 or more. Many of our guides are retired educators or historians who can tailor the tour to the group's topic of interest. These topics may include architecture, history, antiquities, the judicial system and famous criminal trials and tie into curriculum standards for the schools (click here to see the curriculum handout). Please arrange at least two weeks in advance through the tour office.
School bus suppport available on a first-come basis, as available.
Public Tours - No Reservation Required
No reservations are necessary for our public tours on Thursdays at 11 am and Sundays at 12 pm. Meet at the Information Desk just inside the Fifth Street entrance. Tours focus on the building's history, architecture, restoration, preservation, and famous and infamous personages.
Scheduled Group Tours
General tours for groups of 10 or more typically begin at the Landmarket Gift Shop on 1st Floor and focus on the building's history, architecture, restoration, preservation, and famous and infamous personages. They include all public areas (as available). Groups may be seated in a courtroom or other space during part of the tour, depending on group size and interest. Please arrange two weeks in advance through the tour office. Call Diane Lewis at 651-292-3230 for more information.
Length: 45 minutes
Cost: $4/person
**There is an additional charge of $25 per tour guide for all evening tours scheduled after 5 pm.
Gangster Tours
Imagine that you're living in St. Paul's tumultuous era of prohibition and gangsters. Our Gangster Tours are enhanced by costumed guides who adopt the personae of the infamous gangsters who resided in St. Paul during the 1930s and whose path took them (perhaps unwillingly) into the Federal Court House (now Landmark Center). Guides tell of their “lives as gangsters” and how the criminal justice system functioned during that era. Told with humor, accuracy and liveliness, these tours educate about the life and times of people like “Ma” Barker, Alvin “Creepy” Karpis, John Dillinger and his moll Evelyn Freschette, and more. Many of them were held in our third floor Detention Room, were tried in Courtroom 317, or faced down J. Edgar Hoover's G-men on the front steps.
$6/person (minimum $75)
Two-week advance reservation required through our tour office.
There is a fee for no-shows and late cancellation.
There is an additional charge of $25 per tour guide for all evening tours.
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