Flagpole installation inSaint Paul, MN

Flagpoles in Saint Paul

The seat of state government, and a city of institutions rather than head offices: the Capitol complex, the courts, half a dozen college campuses and a downtown standing on the river bluff. We cover Saint Paul and the Ramsey County area, including the Capitol complex and the Mall, Lowertown and the Union Depot, Rice Park and the downtown core, Summit Avenue and Cathedral Hill, Grand Avenue, Highland Park and the Mississippi river flats.

Wind here. Saint Paul sits in an urban and bluff-edged area, which works out to roughly 115 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. The Capitol Area is not the city's to decide. Its boundary is written into state statute, street by street, and a state body, the Capitol Area Architectural and Planning Board, holds the plan inside that line, so a pole anywhere on the complex goes there first. Outside it, Lowertown, Historic Hill, Summit Avenue West, Irvine Park and Dayton's Bluff are heritage preservation districts, and exterior work in them is reviewed before the job can start. Downtown stands on a shelf of Platteville limestone with soft St. Peter sandstone beneath it, so how a 3 ft 6 in frost hole actually reaches depth is settled on site rather than on paper. The river flats below the bluff, and anything sitting on the bluff edge itself, are open ground and we size them that way.

Most of the people who call us from Saint Paul are state and county buildings, associations and government-affairs offices, colleges and private schools, hospitals, churches, veterans posts and the Lowertown loft and office conversions.