Roughly 1,000 acres (400 ha) of mostly agricultural land north of the city retained the name St. Anthony but remained unincorporated.

The state challenged this decision on the basis that St. Anthony was too agricultural and rural, but it was upheld by the Minnesota Supreme Court.

[7] St. Anthony was the home of Apache Plaza, the tenth indoor shopping mall in United States, which opened in October 1961 and was demolished in 2004.

The oldest, Southdale, lay only 15 miles (24 km) to the south and was completed in October 1956.

Built in the 1950s, the St. Anthony Shopping Center was Minnesota's first strip mall and was owned by the Batista family of Cuba.

[8] In the spring of 2006, the St. Anthony Village High School Huskies claimed ISD 282's first state baseball championship.

[citation needed] St. Anthony is 4 miles (6 km) northeast of downtown Minneapolis.

[9] One of St. Anthony's longest and most widely used streets is Silver Lake Road.

Named for Silver Lake in the northwest part of the city, it runs the length of St. Anthony from north to south.

[citation needed] As of the census of 2010, there were 8,226 people, 3,848 households, and 2,054 families residing in the city.

St. Anthony is served by the St. Anthony-New Brighton School District, ISD 282.

Several of the high school's athletic teams host home competitions in Central Park.