Duluth’s Hamilton Hotel

Hamilton Hotel was at 1412–1420 E. Superior St. and was one of Duluth's many impressive pieces of architecture designed by Oliver Traphagen and Francis Fitzpatrick. It was built as the Philadelphia Terrace Townhomes in 1890 and operated as Hamilton Hotel from the 1930s into the 1980s. By the 1960s it was bookended by the Kolar Buick dealership and its used car lot, and in the 1980s the hotel was demolished as the dealership expanded. In recent years the location was a parking lot. Construction is underway there to build the Center for Changing Lives (which will look something like the design below).

There is a history piece on Zenith City Online about Philadelphia Terrace, written by Jim Davis, which seems confusing. Are there two Jim Davis' interested in this building?

Here's a photo of the Hamilton Hotel from the opposite perspective, presumably shot in 1970. A billboard on the side advertises Douglas M. Head's campaign for Minnesota Governor. His running mate was Duluth Mayor Ben Boo.