On the original plat of St. Louis Park Centre, 37th Street was called Central Ave. This page lists homes on 37th Street that are (or mostly were) in the Elmwood neighborhood. Most of these homes are gone now, but at one time there was a thriving community. Please contact us if you have any additions, corrections, and especially photos of these homes.
5627 W. 37th Street: In the 1930s this was the home of Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Lufkin. Mr. Lufkin was the old janitor at Lincoln School. In the ’40s it was the home of F.H. and Vera Peters. It was removed, probably when Topps was built at 3700 Highway 100 in the 1960s. The last occupant was the Harold Lindskoog family, who between 1956 and 1958 moved from the house to 1800 Georgia. The area was being bought up piece by piece by the city so they could assemble the parcel of land that would eventually become the Rec Center. Some have recollected that this house was burned to the ground by the Fire Department as a training exercise.
5720 W. 37th Street was the address given in 1954 as the Civil Defense office. It was also most likely removed for the Topps building.
5825 W. 37th was the address given in the 1933 directory for A. Peters. Would be right at Wooddale and 37th, which hasn’t been a street for decades.
5923 W. 37th was an address given for the old Fire Barn. The Village blacksmith was also located in this general area. It became part of Minnesota Rubber and is now part of Village in the Park.
5925 W. 37th was an address of Lincoln School. It was replaced by an office building for Minnesota Rubber. That building still stands today with the address of 3701 Alabama Ave.
6008 W. 37th would have been at about 37th and Alabama. It was the home of the Larsons in 1933. It is now a factory built in 2005.
6015 W. 37th would be just west of Union Congregational Church. It is now a parking lot. In 1933 it was the home of Joe Swoboda.
6025 W. 37th apparently suffered the same fate as 6015. In 1930 it was the home of Creosote Plant worker Theodore Winterfield.
6016 W. 37th would have been on the block at Alabama that is now a factory. In 1930 it was given as the address of Creosote worker Lincoln G. Larson, and in 1933 it was the home of L. Conley.
6101 W. 37th: This is an odd address, since there generally aren’t addresses in the 6100 blocks for some reason. This was given as the address of Julius Zinke in the 1933 directory.
6119 W. 37th was the address given in the 1930 Census for Charles E. and Lillian Peterson. Charles worked at the Creosote plant.
6213 W. 37th was built in 1895.
6225 W. 37th was built in 1895. In 1933 it was the home of Sam McGown. From at least 1951 to 1954 the SLP Appliances Service was run out of the home.
In 1959 and ’60, the A-1 Appliance Service was advertised at this address in the Echowan.
In 2023 it was a non-residential duplex.
6235 W. 37th was the 1933 home of Charles Peterson. It has apparently been replaced with a house built in 1967 and renumbered as 3705 Colorado Ave.
6319 W. 37th was the address given in the 1930 Census for Albert P. and Malena Flatten and their eight children. Albert was a bleacher in a meat factory, and two of the children worked as servants. The family came from South Dakota. The City purchased the house from Peter Flatten in 1973 and it was demolished in 1985. The lot was combined with 6321 and a new house was built in 1991.
6321 W. 37th was the home of Lloyd Christianson in 1930. The City purchased this property from the State of Minnesota in 1971. It was vacant land in 1986. A house with this address was built in 1991. It appears that the new house is on a combined lot of the former 6319 and 6321.
6333 W. 37th was the address of Charles Schofield in the 1933 directory. House was extant in 1986, not an address today. It and 6335 (below) were combined to become 3739 Dakota.
6335 W. 37th was a Monitor House. From 1920-1923 it was the home of the Pete Ralles family, and was where Pete and Agnes’s sons Ted and John were born. In 1923 it became the home of the Dearstyne family. The 1930 Census shows that Franklin Dearstyne was a tailor and wife Jessie worked in a flower shop. The City purchased it in 1974 and it was scheduled for demolition in 1986. It and 6333 (above) were combined to become 3739 Dakota.
6336 W. 37th was owned by the City in 1986 and demolished, according to the 1986 report. The address would put this on the northeast corner of Dakota and 37th.