District Energy is the proud owner of the Snoopy and Woodstock statue gracing its building entryway. The statue, titled “Dog-Gone-Green,” was part of Saint Paul’s public art initiative Doghouse Days of Summer. Snoopy’s doghouse has been converted into a cityscape of Saint Paul and the Mississippi River using “green energy” themes. Snoopy and Woodstock are green energy advocates.

2004 was the fifth year that Saint Paul honored its favorite hometown cartoonist, Charles Schulz, with statues of the Peanuts gang. It all started in the summer of 2000 with Peanuts on Parade, which featured five-foot statues of Snoopy painted by local artists. The statues were displayed throughout the city and then auctioned to raise funds for the creation of permanent bronze sculptures of the Peanuts gang in a newly created downtown park. Proceeds also provide funding for scholarships for future artists and cartoonists at the Art Instruction School, where Schultz taught, and the College of Visual Arts.

The Snoopy statues were so successful that Charlie Brown Around Town was initiated in 2001, Looking for Lucy in 2002, and Linus Blankets Saint Paul in 2003. Nearly 2 million people from all over the world have visited Saint Paul to see the statues.

Sponsors of the Peanuts gang statues include the Capital City Partnership, City of Saint Paul, Saint Paul Convention & Visitors Bureau and TivoliToo Design & Sculpting Studies. Each of the statues made by TivoliToo is uniquely decorated by local artists so no two are alike.