South St. Paul is a working river town with the housing stock to prove it — block after block of early-1900s houses stepping up the bluff from the Mississippi, built in the stockyards era and still standing on their original masonry: brick chimneys, porch piers, foundation walls and front steps. It is one of the metro’s densest concentrations of exactly the masonry we repair — and one of the corners of the metro where our crew works most.
Our South St. Paul work is the classic restoration lineup: chimney rebuilds and repair, tuckpointing, brick and porch repair, and front steps rebuilt safe and level — plus commercial facade work along Concord Street and the business district.
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Hundred-year-old houses on a river bluff take weather from every direction, and their masonry shows the full catalog: chimneys with spent crowns and soft joints, porch piers settling out of plumb, front steps worn hollow, foundation courses shedding mortar. All of it is fixable, and fixing it correctly — matched brick, matched mortar, proper crowns and caps — is the difference between maintenance and slow demolition.
We rebuild the chimneys above the roofline, repoint walls and foundations to match the original, and put porches and steps back plumb and solid. The before-and-after pairs in our gallery are the honest picture of what that looks like.
South St. Paul’s commercial fabric along Concord and through the old business district is brick from the same era as the houses — storefronts, corner buildings and institutional walls that need parapet, sign-band and elevation work as they age. We run those scopes with the same restoration process we use across the metro: assess on the wall, prioritize in writing, execute around open businesses.
And because these blocks are dense and access is tight, logistics matter: protection over sidewalks, staged scaffolds, clean sites every night. Old neighborhoods notice how a crew behaves — ours behaves like guests.
Communities & areas we serve around South St. Paul: North End, Concord Street corridor, Southview, Kaposia area, Bryant Avenue hill, Riverview.
South St. Paul ZIP codes served: 55075.
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Restoration for factories, apartment buildings, churches, schools and storefronts — wall rebuilds, stone and brick repair, parapets and lintels, run by a crew that works occupied properties.
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Full and partial chimney rebuilds — deteriorated stacks torn down to sound masonry and rebuilt with new brick, cast crowns and stainless caps.
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Crown repair, joint repointing, spalled brick replacement, stainless caps and chimney liner systems — the fixes that stop water before it forces a rebuild.
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Failed mortar ground out and repointed to match the original — on chimneys, houses, and full commercial elevations. The fix that saves the wall you already have.
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Spalled brick cut out and replaced, cracks stitched, bowed sections rebuilt, porch piers and steps restored — matched so the repair does not read as one.
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Block and stone retaining walls engineered for Minnesota frost — proper base, drainage and reinforcement — plus rebuilds of walls that have started to lean.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around South St. Paul. Don't see yours? Call us — we're happy to help.
A wall that worries you, a driveway past its best, or a backyard ready to become the good part of the house? Call or send the form and we will look at the site with you and hand you a straight written quote.
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