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This Day in Minnesota History

April 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 designed civic and residential buildings in St. Paul and created six designs for St. Paul Winter Carnival ice palaces during his lengthy career. He died on July 7, 1967.

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