June 2, 1874: Duluth’s South Breakwater Light burned for the first time. The light — an octagonal cast-iron lantern housing a fifth-order Fresnel lens — stood atop a wooden pyramid tower on south pier of Duluth’s three-year-old ship canal. It cast a red beacon visible 12.5 miles away. In 1877, […]
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Anneke Summer Home in Duluth News Tribune
Tom Wallin’s first memory of the family house on Park Point that he now calls home is the tall grass. It felt like an African jungle when his grandfather lived at the last home at the end of the point. He also recalls playing like pirates on a beached sailboat. […]
Read More2015 Preservation Award featured in Duluth News Tribune
The Duluth Preservation Alliance will present its annual awards Monday night for outstanding efforts to restore and maintain historic homes and structures in Duluth. The Lake Superior Zoological Society’s work to restore the Depression-era pavilion and enclose it to make it a three-season event center is among those projects being […]
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