City guide
5 buildings worth a detour, each with what to look for. Open them on the map, or walk them with the iPhone app, which collects each one you photograph.
The buildings that define the city's architecture.
The Duluth Masonic Center is a Beaux-Arts Masonic Temple built in 1905 that remains Duluth's primary venue for Freemasonry. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015 as the Duluth Masonic Temple, recognized for its role as the longstanding focal point of the city's most influential fraternal organization.
Photo: Chris857 , CC BY-SA 4.0
The Kitchi Gammi Club is the oldest incorporated club in Minnesota, founded in 1883, with its Duluth clubhouse built from 1912 to 1913 to designs by Bertram Goodhue and Ralph Adams Cram. The building blends Georgian and Gothic Revival vocabularies into a single private-club facade, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 for its architectural significance.
Photo: Elkman , CC BY-SA 3.0
Munger Terrace is a row of eight luxury townhomes built from 1891 to 1892 for Roger S. Munger, an important early Duluth entrepreneur, on a site next to his own mansion. Designed by Oliver G. Traphagen and Francis W. Fitzpatrick, it was Munger's only rental-housing project and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 as Duluth's finest example of Châteauesque architecture applied to an apartment building.
Photo: Elkman , CC BY-SA 3.0
Landmark
The St. Louis County Court House was completed in 1909, designed by the firm of Daniel W. Burnham and Co., one of the most historically important architectural practices in the country. Its OSM heritage designation marks it as an individually significant Duluth landmark.
Worth a stop when you're nearby.
The DeWitt-Seitz Building is an eight-story Chicago School commercial building constructed in 1909 for the DeWitt-Seitz Company, a furniture jobber and mattress manufacturer that bought goods from eastern manufacturers and sold them to growing western markets. It survives as one of the few remaining examples of the jobbing and manufacturing factories that once lined Duluth's waterfront, and in 1985 it was converted into the mixed-use DeWitt-Seitz Marketplace.
Photo: Elkman , CC BY-SA 3.0
