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Item Title
City Hall, 411 West First Street, Duluth, St. Louis County, MN
Location411 West First Street,
Duluth, MN
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS MN-31
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-13).
Building/structure dates:
1928 initial construction
Significance: The architectural and historical significance of Duluth's City Hall is that it is a part of the Duluth Civic Center -- combining in one area the principal structures of the City, County and Federal Government in the City of Duluth -- whose "grouping plan" was designed by Daniel Hudson Burnham (1846-1912), D.H. Burnham & Company, Architects, Chicago. One of the chief members of the Chicago School of Architecture and a pioneer city planner, Burnham was the architect for the first and middle building of the Duluth Civic Center's three government structures, the St. Louis County Courthouse, which was completed in 1911. While conforming to Burnham's conception, City Hall, which opened in 1928, and the Federal Building, constructed in 1930, were the work of other architects. Thomas J. Shefchik (1890-1963), Duluth, was the City Hall architect, while a federal architecture team was responsible for the Federal Building.
Related Names
Shefchik, Thomas J.
George Lounsberry & Son
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. Partial view of civic center showing County Courthouse,left, and City Hall,right
2. Exterior view from W. 1st Street-southwest corner
3. Exterior view from W. 1st Street-southwest corner,closer to Court house
4. Entrance
5. Cornice detail of west elevation at southwest corner
6. Hall of Mayors from main entrance
7. Detail of ceiling in hall of Mayors-first floor
8. Second story corridor
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