Anthony.Ĭloutier operated during a time when temperance campaigns were sweeping the U.S. His daughter, Harriet, was purported to be the first white child born in St. A French Canadian, Alexis Cloutier, opened a bowling saloon at the intersection of Marshall and Dana Street (Fifth Avenue NE), not too far from the steamboat landing below St. The Northeaster decided to add our own digging.Īccording to Lindeke and Sturdevant, the first saloon was established in Northeast in 1850, when the town was named St. “Closing Time: Saloons, Taverns, Dives and Watering Holes of the Twin Cities,” a new book by Bill Lindeke and Andy Sturdevant (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2019), includes the history of four Northeast bars.
