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Bridge No. 5757

Bridge No. 5757 is a bridge on Minnesota State Highway 23 in Duluth, Minnesota listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The bridge, spanning Mission Creek, is in the Fond du Lac neighborhood of Duluth. The bridge was built in 1937 by A. Bodin and Co. It is a double-span, multi-plate arch culvert with granite headwalls. The creek flows through two 20 feet metal culverts that are 115 feet wide. The bridge has several ornamental features that distinguish it from an ordinary highway bridge. The headwalls and railings are faced with roughly-cut granite rubble in various colors of gray, pink, and tan. The headwalls continue above the roadway to form the railings, which have narrow lancet-like openings that evoke a late Gothic Revival design. While the bridge resembles Federal Relief projects of the 1930s, it was not actually built by a Federal Relief organization such as the Works Progress Administration or the Civilian Conservation Corps. Instead, it was designed by the Minnesota Department of Highways, probably with their chief landscape architect Arthur R. Nichols. It resembles the National Park Service Rustic style popular in Federal Relief architecture, and the excellent stonework is typical of that used in the labor-intensive construction projects of that era. A 0.75 miles section of Highway 23 through this area was built as a wide, shaded, parkway-like divided highway. This portion is also known as Veterans Evergreen Memorial Highway in the Fond du Lac neighborhood of Duluth.

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The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Endion Depot is a historic railroad depot in Duluth, Minnesota. The station was formerly located at the corner of South Street and 15th Avenue East, but due to the extension of Interstate 35 along the shore of Lake Superior in 1985, the building was relocated to the Canal Park area. The Duluth and Iron Range Railroad originally built its line from Duluth to Two Harbors in 1886. Endion was originally a small settlement outside of Duluth, but Duluth later absorbed Endion and other small communities surrounding it. The railroad stop at Endion was its first stop after it left Duluth. The railroad built the depot in 1899 to satisfy the demand for a depot for passenger and freight services in the neighborhood. At its peak, the depot served six incoming and outgoing trains per day. In 1938, the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad merged with the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railroad, with the name of Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway as the result. With the decline in passenger railroad service, the depot stopped serving passenger traffic in 1961. It continued to serve freight until 1978, when it was closed. The building is architecturally significant because it was one of the last remaining small passenger depots in Duluth. It features fine brick and stone architectural detailing and craftsmanship. The stone came from the Kettle River quarries near Sandstone, Minnesota. The building is designed with projecting gables that form a transept. Its architect, I. Vernon Hill, went on to have a distinctive impact on the architecture of Duluth in the early 20th century, using the projecting gables as a trademark. The design is a variation on the Richardsonian Romanesque style popular in the 1880s and 1890s, though its small scale is less imposing than larger Richardsonian Romanesque buildings. The building is now a bar called the "Endion Station Public House" which opened in July 2014.

Bent Paddle Brewing Company

Bent Paddle Brewing Company is a microbrewery located in Duluth, Minnesota. It was founded by Bryon Karen Tonnis and Colin Laura Mullen. Bryon Tonnis had most recently worked as the head brewer at the Rock Bottom Brewery location in Minneapolis while Colin Mullen had been the head brewer at Barley John’s Brew Pub in New Brighton, Minnesota. Karen Tonnis manages the brewerys operations and distribution while Laura Mullen manages outreach and events . The origin of the brewerys name comes from both a bent canoe paddle Bryon Tonnis had used to mix his brewing mash as well as the brewers shared love of canoeing. In May 2013 their brewery and taproom opened to the public with distribution of kegs and cans in the Duluth area beginning shortly thereafter. In November 2013 limited distribution of cans to liquor stores in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area began. An expansion was simultaneously announced with a stated goal of expanding production from 4,500bbl to 8,000bbl per year. As part of their "Best of MN" awards, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune named Bent Paddle the best new brewery in Greater Minnesota for 2014. The brewery also won a bronze medal at the 2014 Great American Beer Festival for their 14° ESB. In August 2014 Long Trail Brewing Company filed a trademark infringement suit against Bent Paddle for using a logo of a hiker with a backpack similar to their own. The suit was amicably settled in December 2014 with Bent Paddle agreeing to discontinue the use of that logo and both breweries making charitable donations to hiking-related groups in one anothers states.

Tweed Museum of Art

The Tweed Museum of Art is a museum located on the campus of the University of Minnesota Duluth, in Duluth, Minnesota. The Tweed Museum of Art was established in 1950 when Alice Tweed Tuohy, widow of George P. Tweed, donated their house and an approximately 500-piece American and European art collection to the University of Minnesota Duluth to enrich the lives of the people in the academic and civic communities of the region. Following its initial operation from 1950-58, a museum facility was constructed on the UMD campus in 1958, with funds donated primarily by Mrs. Tweed and her daughter, Bernice Brickson. The museum has been expanded and renovated four times between 1965 and 2008. Today, the museum operates in a 33,000 square-foot facility with 15,000 square feet of exhibit space and offers nine galleries to service an average of 33,000 visitors each year. Of great artistic, cultural, regional and historical significance, the collection is the focus of all museum activities. It contains 15th-21st-century European, American and world art in all media by artists of regional, national and international importance, including outstanding work by artists from the Upper Midwest and Minnesota. Artists in the collection include Thomas Hart Benton, Charles Biederman, Frederick Childe Hassam, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Jean-Francois Millet, Robert Motherwell, John Henry Twachtman and Helen Turner. The collection also features painting and illustrations about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that were donated by the Potlatch Corp., including works by Arnold Friberg. In 2007, the museum acquired the Richard E. and Dorothy Rawlings Nelson Collection of American Indian Art, an acquisition that opened new programmatic territories. By establishing a modestly comprehensive historical canon, the Nelson collection opened the museum to build upon it by collecting contemporary American Indian arts. Beyond its regions borders, Tweed enjoys relationships with museums around the world. Artwork circulates from the Tweed collection both nationally and internationally. Recent world exhibitions featuring artwork from Tweed’s collection have taken place at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, at the Prado in Madrid, Spain, at the Complesso del Vittoriano in Rome, Italy, and at prefectural museums throughout Japan.

Lester Park Golf Course

Lester Park Golf Course is one of two public golf courses located in the port city of Duluth, Minnesota. The original eighteen hole golf course was made up the north shore of Duluth, near the Lester Park River. The golf course was established in 1934. The other course, Enger Park, is located near the Duluth landmark, Enger Tower, and was established earlier than Lester in the 1920s. Lester Park is well known around Minnesota for its spectacular beauty and rich history as a golf course because a unique view of Lake Superior is available on 20 of the 27 golf holes. The original 18 holes have been redone four times since their initial design. In 1997, Paul Schintz, a former club pro from St. Paul, took over Lester Park as PGA Golf Professional. In 2003, Schintz became the Director of Golf, overseeing both Lester Park and Enger Park clubhouse operations. The golf courses were split to a 2 golf pro / 2 contract setup in 2005 with the addition of Steve Anderson to Enger Park Golf Course, with Schintz remaining at Lester Park. In 2007, the Duluth city council voted to accept a contract with Professional Golf Management, Inc. The Management company consisted of partners Schintz, as PGA Golf Professional and Jud Crist, Golf Course Superintendent. The management company now operates both facilities for the City of Duluth, overseeing clubhouse and maintenance operations. Management Inc. Lester Parks front and back nines are a full par 72 golf course and has a yardage of 6,828 yards from the hardest tees. Lester Park Golf Course Duluth City Council Meeting Actions 8/13/2007 Lester Park Golf Course | Lester Park 1 Golf Course

Cloquet Valley State Forest

The Cloquet Valley State Forest encompasses 327,098 acres ; 48,384 acres of which are Minnesota Department of Natural Resources forestry administered lands. Located in southeast Saint Louis County, the Cloquet Valley State Forest is located about 20 miles north of Duluth and 25 miles southeast of Virginia, in Minnesota's Arrowhead region. It spreads out over east–central Saint Louis County, generally in areas just north of the city of Duluth, but extending into the valleys of the Ush-kab-wan River, Whiteface River, and Cloquet River, for which it is named. The city of Cloquet is located in adjacent Carlton County. Recreational activities offered at the Indian Lake campground within the forest include camping, fishing, and a canoe route on the Cloquet River. The Superior National Forest is located immediately north of the Cloquet Valley State Forest. Saint Louis County Road 4 and County Road 44 are two of the main routes in the Cloquet Valley State Forest area. County Road 4 runs north–south through the middle of the forest between Island Lake and the community of Markham. County Road 44 runs north–south through the eastern portion of the forest, passing through the community of Brimson at the northeast corner of the forest. County Road 52 runs east–west through the northwest part of the forest, east of Cotton, passing through the community of Whiteface. County Road 49 runs east–west through the western portion of the forest. The majority of CR 49 is unpaved gravel surface. Harris Road runs east–west through the southwest part of the forest. The entire route of Harris Road is unpaved gravel surface. County Road 547 runs generally east–west through the northern portion of the forest in two separate segments. The first section of CR 547 runs between Whiteface towards Markham. The second section of CR 547 runs from near Markham to Brimson. The entire route of CR 547 is unpaved gravel surface.

Canal Park

Canal Park is a tourist and recreation-oriented district of Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Situated across the Interstate 35 freeway from Downtown Duluth, it is connected by the famous Aerial Lift Bridge to the Park Point sandbar and neighborhood. Canal Park Drive and Lake Avenue South serve as the main routes in Canal Park. Canal Park is largely a conversion of an old warehouse district into restaurants, shops, cafés, and hotels. This conversion began in the 1980s as an attempt to use Duluths rich industrial past, the decline of which had left the city in economic turmoil at the time, as an asset in a prospective tourist industry. The Duluth Entertainment Convention Center now connected to the new Amsoil Arena and the areas prominent entertainment venue, is also located in the district. The DECC provides an indoor connection to the skywalk system in Downtown Duluth. Many annual events such as the Bayfront Blues Festival, held in Bayfront Festival Park; and Grandmas Marathon that runs from Two Harbors, Minnesota to downtown Duluth, are held fueled by Canal Park. Some of Canal Parks attractions include a 4.2 mile long lakewalk, a lighthouse pier, the Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center, the Great Lakes Aquarium, and the William A. Irvin floating ship museum. Those interested in boats will also enjoy watching vessels from around the world enter Duluths port. Canal Park is also the home of broadcast studios for the four radio stations of Red Rock Radio, and the site of Duluth NBC affiliate KBJR.

Oliver Bridge

The Oliver Bridge was constructed across the Saint Louis River in 1916 by the Interstate Transfer Railway Company, a Wisconsin corporation, under special federal authorization from the 60th United States Congress (Session I, Chapter 31, February 20, 1908). It connects the Gary New Duluth neighborhood, part of the city of Duluth, Minnesota with the village of Oliver, Wisconsin across the Saint Louis River. The bridge is 1,900 feet long and is principally of steel truss construction. The upper deck carries the single track rail line while a lower deck carries the road connecting Wisconsin Highway 105 to Minnesota State Highway 39. The upper deck was built so as to allow a streetcar line to be constructed from Gary-New Duluth to south Superior connecting the Duluth and Superior Streetcar systems. The line was never built and the systems were connected across the Twin Ports Harbor. On the Oliver side, a section of the bridge was built to swing allowing passage of large vessels despite the river only being navigable for a few miles upstream of the bridge. Only one vessel is ever thought to have used this facility, a ferry excursion boat operating between the Duluth harbor and the Fond du Lac neighborhood of Duluth. The ferry service ceased in the 1930s and the swing section has not operated since. The road deck was originally a wooden deck. Modernization came in 2000 when both states' DOTs cooperated with the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway to jointly fund a reconstruction of the roadway surface, which now features a stronger steel and reinforced concrete deck. A weight restriction, which was lowered to one ton as the road deck deteriorated, was then lifted. A pedestrian walkway also existed atop the railway deck, but fell into disrepair and is no longer usable. The Oliver Bridge is currently owned by the Canadian National Railway.

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