Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd., Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.

The building was constructed on the former site of the Mechanic Arts High School, which was demolished in 1914 for further development of the state capitol.

[3] In 1992, the society moved to a new building nearby, the Minnesota History Center.

[4][5] The neoclassical front of the building has eight two-story Ionic columns of granite.

Above them are Roman numerals representing the establishment of the Minnesota Historical Society in 1849 and the year the building was completed, 1917.