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Elbow Lake: One of Minnesota's few monumental Victorian courthouses remaining, built in 1905; Grant County's most prominent turn-of-the-20th-century building and its long-serving seat of government, and an important work of architects Bell & Detweiler and interior designer Odin J. Oyen. [39] 3: Roosevelt Hall: Roosevelt Hall: August 23, 1985
Small, family-owned lake resort established in 1924, with 20 contributing properties. A rare surviving example of a once-common Minnesota attraction; also noted for its landscape architecture and association with the Wilderness Act of 1964. [19] 11: Lake County Courthouse and Sheriff's Residence: Lake County Courthouse and Sheriff's Residence
Duluth is on the north shore of Lake Superior at the westernmost point of the Great Lakes. It is the largest metropolitan area, the second-largest city, and the largest U.S. city on the lake. Duluth is accessible to the Atlantic Ocean, 2,300 miles (3,700 km) away, via the Great Lakes Waterway and St. Lawrence Seaway. [9]
Lake Nemadji was an outlet channel leading west from the west end of the Lake Superior Basin to Moose Lake, where it joined the outlet of Lake St. Louis. [3] Lake Brule was a small lake in the Brule River basin south of the copper range. It has its outlet to the St. Croix Valley. This was before Lake Duluth gained the St. Croix as its outlet. [3]
Brule Lake is located in the Duluth Complex, a geological region marked by bands of softer, more erodible bedrock, and "red rock," a harder and less easily eroded stone, which forms protruding ridges across the Superior Uplands. [5] In the region of the Brule, these ridges run nearly exactly east-west, and long, thin lakes lie between them. [5]
Glensheen, the Historic Congdon Estate is a 20,000 [2] square foot mansion in Duluth, Minnesota, United States, operated by the University of Minnesota Duluth as a historic house museum. Glensheen sits on 12 acres of waterfront property on Lake Superior , has 39 rooms and is built in the Jacobean architectural tradition, inspired by the Beaux ...
Donations are accepted by the Lake Superior Marine Museum Association, and support general maintenance and upkeep of the building, new exhibit development and acquisition, and staffing. Exhibits demonstrate the history and operations of upper Great Lakes commercial shipping and the Aerial Lift Bridge.
Judge C. R. Magney State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Minnesota, on the North Shore of Lake Superior.It was named for Clarence R. Magney, a former mayor of Duluth and justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who was instrumental in getting 11 state parks and scenic waysides established along the North Shore. [2]