Where in Duluth? PDD 15th Anniversary Challenge #8 of 15
If you’ve followed Perfect Duluth Day for long, you know how to play “Where in Duluth?” A photo from an undisclosed spot is posted, people guess the location in the comments, someone eventually gets it right and everyone else admires that person’s brilliance. But now, as part of PDD’s 15th anniversary celebration, there are prizes on the line.
Duluth’s Duluthiest website celebrates its anniversary on Friday, June 29, at Wade Stadium as the Duluth Huskies face the Thunder Bay Border Cats in Northwoods League baseball. PDD will have a canopy at the game from 6 to 9 p.m. and representatives will be on hand to pass out birthday cake and give away various prizes. There will also be a drawing with 15 names in it for three special prizes — for the “Where in Duluth?” champions.
Here’s how the “Where in Duluth?” challenge works:
- As opposed to the usual “Where in Duluth?” posts, the contest images feature the PDD Angry Seagull mascot in the frame.
- As usual, the first person to guess the correct location in the comments to the post is the winner.
- Each winner will be entered into a drawing for the three fabulous prizes.
- The drawing will be held at Wade Stadium the night of the party. Winners need not be present to collect a prize.
Prizes:
Daypack: A North Bay Daypack with padded laptop sleeve from Frost River. This classic pack is styled in waxed canvas. Check out more from Frost River on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
Loll Chair: A charcoal grey Adirondack chair from Loll Designs. Check out more from Loll Designs on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
Rafting Adventure: A 4-to-6-person excursion from Minnesota Whitewater Rafting. The winner will receive a certificate good for a 4.4-mile trip on the St. Louis River this summer in a dam-controlled area. Learn more about Minnesota Whitewater Rafting on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
Good luck with your “Where in Duluth?” speed and skills. See you at PDDXV!
That sure looks like the brickwork at Glensheen.
Buuuut, now I am second guessing myself and don’t believe it is.
It is not. This is a difficult one. You won’t find it in the tourist brochures.
Kitchi Gammi Club?
Or Sacred Heart?
Can you provide me, and only me, a clue to this one?
Forest Hill Cemetery
Old Central High School?
All guesses so far are incorrect. Tomorrow I’ll start dishing out clues if no one sweeps in with a solve.
St. Scholastica Monastery
Nope, it’s not the St. Scholastica Monastery.
Old central high school?
Or old main?
It’s not Old Central or Old Main.
First clue: The photo was taken south of I-35.
Lake Superior Zoo
I’ll cut the geography down a little more and say it is southwest of Lake Superior Zoo.
Is the Angry Seagull at the US Forest Service Building?
I’ll shrink the map even more and say it is southwest of the U.S. Forest Service’s Superior National Forest Headquarters.
It isn’t this church/house is it?
St. George’s in Gary?
Or puglisi’s gun emporium?
We finally have a solve on this one! Northern Owlbear is correct, the location is 101 W. Peary St. in New Duluth.
It appears to be a residence or maybe apartments today. It looks like church architecture, but internet searches don’t seem to easily confirm that, so the answer to the question “What was it?” sits at the library for someone to figure out.
I’m looking into it. In 1996 it was some sort of community center.
Not going to lie, that was really tough Paul. Way to make us work for it!
The church was the New Duluth House of Hope Presbyterian, according to the Gary New Duluth FDL History group on Facebook. Not sure when it was built, but it was around in at least 1948. There was an earlier building close by before that. The New Duluth House of Hope Presbyterian has had a presence in the neighborhood since 1908 from what I can find. At one point it had elected U. C. Tower [businessman, bank owner, and curler(??)] as as its representative to the national Presbyterian council.