Perfect Duluth Day

Postcard from Superior Street at 15th Avenue West

This undated postcard, published by Odin Ebbesen, shows Superior Street in Duluth’s Lincoln Park neighborhood long before the neighborhood was called Lincoln Park. The church at right is, presumably, the Second Presbyterian Church of Duluth, according to text in an appendix of surveyed properties in the city of Duluth’s Historic Resources Inventory for the Lincoln Park Neighborhood.

A modern-day photo of the location, below, shows Duluth Gospel Tabernacle in that location today. The aforementioned historic resources inventory notes that the current church building was designed by the local firm Giliuson & Ellingsen and was built by H.E. Farnam Company. “The church was constructed for the Pentecostal Assembly of God congregation, which was established in Duluth in 1916; its alternative name was the Pentecostal Assembly Duluth Gospel Tabernacle,” the inventory notes, adding that the church first appears in city directories in 1921 with the address 1515 W. Superior St.