Swede Hollow was a neighborhood of Saint Paul, Minnesota, from the 1850s to 1956. Located on the city's East Side, it lay east of the Railroad Island neighborhood and at the northwestern base of Dayto
Swede Hollow in 1910 which was during the later years of Swedish immigration.
The Seventh Street Improvement Arches separated Swede Hollow from Connemara Patch. This photo is taken from the south of the arches; to the north, past the bridge, is Swede Hollow.
The Seventh Street Improvement Arches are a double-arched masonry highway bridge that formerly spanned the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad tracks in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. The Seventh Stre
Detail of the ring stones and the entrance to the east arch
Detail of the ring stones at the top of one of the arches
Interior view of the helicoidal construction. The gray stonework at the bottom is the horizontal pier on which the arches sit.