by Robin L. Mainella
After a beautiful structure that can never be replicated is gone, it is gone forever. Many of Duluth's significant structures that have been lost to us perhaps could have been saved. Not those claimed by fire. But others were simply looked at as having seen their day and having outlived their usefulness to a growing city.
What replaced these gems wasn't always of the same quality and also has been replaced with another generation of construction. Development has taken an enormous toll on our city's fabulous original building stock.
