With your contribution the historic Duluth Armory will become…

An educationally focused community center for music, entertainment, and the arts including a:

* restored performance hall 2,500 capacity – that will also be utilized as a cinema arts center

* educational programs for all ages and incomes focused on how technology is changing music and the arts making remote areas accessible to instructors and performers worldwide

* ballroom catering center plus restaurant for long-term financial sustainability

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Mission Statement

To preserve the Duluth Armory and its historic value to American culture and the arts, while encouraging its re-use, placing emphasis on arts education.

Goals

  • Promotion of American culture.

  • Promotion of arts through performances, exhibits and education.

  • Preservation of the Armory's performance spaces and military history of the structure.

  • Establishment of a community focus for the East Hillside/Endion neighborhoods.

  • Commemoration of Buddy Holly's performance at the Armory and Bob Dylan's emergence as a musical icon.

  • Preserve the Armory's significance, in Duluth's history, as an arts and gathering center.
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“…when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I went to see Buddy Holly play at Duluth National Guard Armory, and I was three seats away from him, and he looked at me and, …I know he was with us all the time we were making this record in some kind of way.”   Bob Dylan

(Accepting  the 1998 Grammy for Album of the Year, Bob Dylan brought the Duluth Armory to international attention.)

On the shores of Lake Superior, the 120,000 sq. ft. Armory houses 2 large performance stages including the one where Buddy Holly inspired Duluth’s native son, Bob Dylan. With your contribution the historic Duluth Armory will become…

An educationally focused community center for music, entertainment, and the arts including a:

The Armory Arts & Music Center non-profit, tax-exempt corporation has already secured $4 Million in historic and new-market tax credits for this project.

 Please send what you can afford to help make the Armory Arts & Music Center an incubator for future artist like Buddy Holly, Bob Dylan and all the other artist who had once found inspiration at the old Duluth Armory.  Please send your donation to:

Armory Arts& Music Center
2416 London Road #779            
Duluth,MN 55812
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Please Donate !

 

  

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Last modified: November 18, 2002