News Stories

The Duluth Preservation Alliance announces our Top Ten Most Endangered Places for 2022. This year we focus on the effects of expanding hospital districts and our historic downtown. Four places on last year’s list have updates: First Baptist Church – 830 E. 1st St. – LOST St. Regis Apartments – […]

Save the Hotel Astoria! Announcing the Duluth Preservation Alliance’s newest campaign to save a piece of Duluth’s history from the wrecking ball. In December, it was announced that the 1905 building would be demolished for a parking lot. As a result of the news, the DPA has put out this […]

The Duluth Preservation Alliance announces our Top Ten Most Endangered Places for 2021. These places shine a light on early Native communities, the industrial working class, immigration, and brewing heritage. They contain overlooked sections of Duluth’s past that represent our community’s identity and memory. If we lose these places, our […]

A UMD art history professor will offer the opportunity to learn more about the history of western Duluth’s neighborhood identities. Written By: Teri Cadeau | Aug 1st 2020 – 4pm. Stretching more than 71 inches across the bar’s western wall, this portrait of the Elliott and Co. meat packing business is an example […]

This was written by Jane Whitledge and published on February 7, 2020. Whatever happened to the city of Duluth’s plans to create an historic district downtown? A few years back, the city invited professional architects to visit Duluth, and they were impressed with our many old structures, the wonderful stone […]