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As a woman working in a man s world in the 1950s, Mary Ann Milton found success on her own terms.
Believed to be the first female real estate broker in Minnesota, Milton found investors to buy into properties and redeveloped several around the Twin Cities. She became best known for her signature project: Milton Square, a Bavarian-style commercial and residential complex in the St. Anthony Park neighborhood of St. Paul.
Milton, of Mahtomedi, died Jan. 2 of complications from COVID-19. She would have turned 100 next month.
Born Mary Ann Buchan to Scottish immigrant parents, her father died when she was just 5 years old. Her mother moved the couple s three children from Missouri to White Bear Lake to be closer to relatives.