Most photographs of downtown Duluth will also capture the Aerial Bridge, and so it is with this image of Superior Street at Fifth Avenue West. The Spalding hotel was completed in June 1889. It was razed in the summer of 1963 along with many other buildings in the Gateway Renewal Project. The total cost of razing Gateway buildings was $258,000, including demolition of the Spalding hotel at the cost of $43,500.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
White building in foreground is the E.E. Corliss residence, Grand Hotel (center) and High School (left) are the two large brick structures in the background.
Aerial view looking northeast of Cold Spring Granite Company production plant, quarry and Clark hotel. This plant and quarry were bought from the John Clark Granite Company during the early 1940s.
The aerial view shows the three-story hotel with its four-story octagonal tower and many porches, its water tower and wooded grounds, and the railroad tracks behind the hotel.
Image of a group of men standing outside of the Agate Bay House. Painted sign underneath the decorative peak on the covered porch. This was utilized as a boarding house for railroad workers. Also pictured is an intersection of a wooden sidewalk, one of the first built in Two Harbors, Minnesota. Managers are Brown, Butler, and Blake standing on the right side of the covered porch.
External view of a Red Wing boarding house, which was formerly a city hospital. It was located on East side of Dakota, North of Main Street. There is a sign on the side of the building that reads, "American House."
Exterior view of the American House. This was built as a hotel, but never housed any guests. It became one of the first buildings on the Carleton College campus.
The building that is standing next to the hotel was built in 1904, the hotel was built in 1857 and was demolished in 1912. The Peter Carlin Saloon is on the main floor of the hotel. A jewelry store is directly behind the hotel and First National Bank is to its left. Two men are standing in the doorway to the saloon.
Exterior view of the front of the Blake Hotel with path and stairway leading up to the doors. Person with a bicycle stands to the side of the path near the hotel.