The Richest Woman in the Underworld: St. Paul’s Red-Light Empire
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Thirty feet below the bluff where the Science Museum of Minnesota stands today was the Washington Street red-light district. It was anchored by a $12,000 carved brownstone disguised on city permits as a "boarding house and seminary." Owned and operated by Canadian-born widow Nina Clifford, the luxury bordello catered to St. Paul’s political and economic elite while city officials collected monthly court fines as informal licensing fees. On this episode of Pionerd: The Minnesota Edition, host Robert Thomas uncovers the history of "the richest woman in the underworld" and the…
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