A stately hotel with beautifully decorated rooms in a fabulous location doesn’t need a charming backstory. This one’s got one anyway: Celeste sprung up in the building formerly occupied as both a convent and a music conservatory, and takes its name from its original mother superior. Some rooms boast views out onto the Capitol, while…
We don’t just eat for a living, we are also charged with keeping track of the ever-changing food and drink scene in the Twin Cities. We try a lot of beers and cocktails throughout the year, so it has to be really special for one in particular to stick out. Here are our five favorite drinks…
Looking for a place to take your out of town guests over the holidays? Consider some of St. Paul’s latest hotspots that have opened in the past year where you can grab great food and linger after over a decent beer, wine or cocktail. As the fast-casual trend continues to grow, some of St.…
At. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Arts(1884-1961) was established by the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1884 well before the construction of what is now known as the Exchange Building. The Conservatory was the first fine arts school in Minnesota .Its classes in music, art, expression and dancing generated the income needed to support the…
In an unassuming corner room—just down the hall from and somewhat behind the dual lobby parlors of Celeste St. Paul Hotel + Bar—Sister Jane Hurley made some dubious memories. “Hohohoho,” Sister Jane said, recalling what it was like more than 60 years earlier when she got summoned to the room. “I would have been mighty scared.…
There has been a big transformation at a former convent in St. Paul. What was once St. Agatha’s is now a boutique hotel. And photojournalist David Peterlinz was there as some retired nuns returned to their old stomping grounds.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) – There’s just something about an old-fashioned sleepover with friends. And for a group of St. Paul nuns, it’s where they are spending time together that has a special meaning. Downtown St Paul has a new boutique hotel. For the first group of guests to stay here, it’s a place like “nun”…
When downtown St. Paul’s new 71-room boutique hotel at Exchange and Cedar Streets opens at the end of the month, it include a bar component in what used to be the St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Arts’ street-level parlor space.
So what in heaven’s name will happen to the convent? Sometime next fall, it will reopen to the public as the Celeste St. Paul Hotel and Bar (Celestestpaul.com), a 71-room boutique hotel that borrows its name from Mother Celestine, aka Ellen Howard, the convent’s first Mother Superior.
A century-old office building at a prime downtown St. Paul corner, with a music conservatory as its major tenant, has been sold and will become a boutique hotel, the buyer announced Monday.
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