West Duluth; Bethany Home Thirty-ninth Avenue west; children’s home; residents at entrance; staff; cupola; articles of Incorporation filed March 18, 1915; doors opened May 1, 1916, with three children; 1928 there were 72 children; supported by the Community Fund; fire October 10, 1920; brick building; reopened 1922 at same address Thirty-ninth Avenue west and Ninth street; razed 1974

~ Photo Credit: University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections