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This Day in Minnesota History

January 21, 1883

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Clarence "Cap" Wigington is born in Kansas. Minnesota's first African American registered architect and the nation's first African American municipal architect, he would design civic and residential buildings in St. Paul and create six designs for St. Paul Winter Carnival ice palaces during his lengthy career. He died on July 7, 1967.

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