Originally named Minneapolis Avenue, it was renamed by the Saint Paul City Council in 1904 in honor of Auguste Louis Larpenteur, a fur trader and one of the original 12 citizens in the city of Saint Paul.
Larpenteur continues east from Lauderdale through the cities of Falcon Heights, Roseville, and Saint Paul, where it is an exit off of Interstate 35E and bisected by Lake Phalen to the east.
It ends at Minnesota State Highway 120 (Century Avenue North) in Maplewood at the border of Washington County.
[2] Larpenteur Avenue forms the boundary between the city of Saint Paul and its northern suburbs.
Larpenteur Avenue runs along the south side of the Les Bolstad Golf Course at the University of Minnesota and passes through the agricultural research fields on the north side of the University's Saint Paul Campus in Falcon Heights.