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Work People's College as it appeared in 1913. Note the parallel American and red flags flying over the building. Work People's College (Finnish: Työväen Opisto) was a radical labor college (a type of a folk high school governed by the worker's movement) established in Smithville (Duluth), then a suburb of Duluth, Minnesota, in 1907 by the Finnish Socialist Federation of the Socialist Party ...
The Historic Old Central High School, a city landmark built in 1892, housed a museum dedicated to the school's history until its sale to developers in 2022. The old school features a 230-foot (70 m) clock tower with chimes patterned after Big Ben in London; the clock faces are each 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet (3.2 m) in diameter, overlooking the Duluth ...
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Northeast Minnesota Local history Housed in the city's first city hall building, the museum features local history exhibits including a Veterans Hall, recreation of an Ice Cream Parlor and a historical display on the city's Jackson Project Homes, "subsistence homesteads" that were built in 1937 as part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. [167] [168]
In 2020, Historic Old Central High School was listed for sale by the Duluth School Board. Saturday Properties, a St. Louis Park-based developer, bought it in 2022 for $3 million, and began converting the building into apartments. The conversion, which preserved original features such as the auditorium (reconfigured as a common space), hallways ...
The backstory: Bob Dylan was born in Duluth on May 24, 1941, and spent most of his childhood in Hibbing. He moved to the Twin Cities for a brief period in 1959 for college before moving to New York.
Endion School is a former school building in the East End/Endion neighborhood of Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Built in ornate Richardsonian Romanesque style with a unique design on a prominent hilltop site, it has been a local landmark since its construction in 1890. [ 2 ]
The museum is in Duluth's Canal Park near the Aerial Lift Bridge and overlooks the entrance to the Duluth-Superior harbor. The museum and grounds are all property of the U.S. federal government. All visitors are welcome to visit this museum without paying. Donations are accepted by the Lake Superior Marine Museum Association, and support ...