Date Created: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1968">1968</span>

Date Created:: 1967 - 1970
Description:: Aerial view of the Excelsior Amusement Park and Excelsior Commons.
Contributing Institution:: Lake Minnetonka Historical Society
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

Date Created:: 1968?
Description:: View from First Street in downtown Duluth. The 1910 Soo Line depot is at the far right at Sixth Avenue West and Superior Street. The newspaper announced in 1971, plans for a 13-story apartment building for the middle-income elderly on the site of the Soo Line Depot which was razed in August of 1972. The 1892 Union Depot at 506 West Michigan Street becomes the St. Louis County Heritage and Arts Center. A January 11, 1973, newspaper article announced the St. Louis County Board received $201,250 for historical preservation and restoration of Duluth's Union Depot. The Depot was purchased from Burlington Northern for $137,500. The county serves as landlord, which averts tax problems. On March 19, 1973, Don Shank turned the first shovel of dirt for Lake Superior Museum of Transportation and Industry known by locals as the Train Museum.
Contributing Institution:: University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Type:: Still Image
Format:: Black-and-white photographs

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