About Saint Cloud's Pantown Historic District

The Pantown Historic District was built as a group of homes for the workers of the Pan Motor Company and the Pandolfo Manufacturing Company in North St Cloud MN. The auto plant was a 22 acre complex of buildings with underground tunnels and from 1917 to 1921 produced approximately 750 vehicles. The location is now used as the Electrolux plant on 33rd Ave North.

Sam Pandolfo had over 50 homes built for his factory workers and even convinced the city of St Cloud to extend the sewer lines out to his new development. The neighborhood is now known as Pantown and has been classified as one of St Cloud's Historic Neighborhood Districts.

Both the Pan Motor Company building and the Pantown neighborhood are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Pan Motor Company Office and Sheet Metal Works (added 1984 - Building) 435-437 33rd Avenue North Saint Cloud and Pan Town Residential District (added 1982 - District) Thirty, Thirty-second, and Thirty-third Avenues North Saint Cloud.

The Pan Automobile is featured regularly by the St Cloud Antique Auto Club, Inc. in St Cloud. For more information about the Pan Motor Company, the book "The Legend of Sam Pandolfo: Minnesota's Pan Motor Company and its Legacy" is available at the St Cloud Public Library.

The Pantown Historic District is one of the most interesting neighborhoods in St Cloud. If you want to view many of these homes you can just drive down 8th Street North, around the corner from the factory and you will get a very nice view of the well preserved Pantown Historic Neighborhood built for the employees of the Pan Motor Company.

The first 4 cars crossing the new bridge are Pan Motor Company cars.