Voices of the North End celebrates the people and places that make up this diverse Saint Paul neighborhood. One of Saint Paul’s largest residential areas, the North End houses a number of businesses, schools, churches and parks. The neighborhood was developed in the 1870s and 1880s south of Maryland Avenue, where Victorian-era homes were built on narrow lots. The neighborhood's northern half was developed in the 1920s or later; the area along Wheelock Parkway was developed in the 1950s. The main commercial corridor is Rice Street (named after the famous Minnesota politician Henry M. Rice), which became a commercial corridor in the late 1890s with the arrival of streetcars. The North End is rich in history and traditions dating back to the 1800s as well as embracing customs from newer arrivals, being home to the largest population of Karen and Karenni immigrants from Burma. The entire North End has been designated an “Area of Concentrated Poverty” by the Metropolitan Council as an area where at least 50% of residents are people of color and at least 40% of residents have family incomes less than 185% of the poverty level. The following are some of the statistical characteristics facing the residents of the North End, compared to the larger City of Saint Paul: 70 percent are people of color, compared to 46 percent citywide 29 percent foreign born, compared to 19 percent citywide 36 percent are below the poverty line, compared to 22 percent city wide