The Making of Neighborhood Identities in Duluth, MN

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Co-sponsored by Rethos: Places Reimaged and the Duluth Preservation Alliance

In this 2 hour class, we will explore the "making" of neighborhood identities in Duluth after the 1854 treaty. Join our discussion  as Professor Jennifer Webb guides us through the history and the layers of some of Duluth's oldest neighborhoods. In this section we will explore how the neighborhoods of western Duluth - from Lincoln Park to Fond du Lac - became the places we recognize today. Dr. Webb will show us how the river and the landscape helped to define urban “space” in Duluth, but also how people made those spaces into “places” with particular identities.

Together we will look at Art Fleming's twenty-one architectural portraits of local industries which still hang in the Kom-on-Inn bar in West Duluth.  At the time that they were painted in the early 1950s, these portraits of place were already tinged with a nostalgia for a lost past that lingers today. These paintings…