2211 E 3rd St
Duluth, MN 55812, USA

George & Laura Barnum Residence

An exposed brick chimney splits the massive center front gable of the Barnums eclectic house, a two-story brick structure wrapped in limestone trim. Barnum made his way to Duluth surveying Jay Cookes Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad (now part of Northern Paci c). While his contributions to early Duluth were many, the town of Barnum honored him as its namesake, and for many years he gave each graduating student at Barnum High School a $5 gold piece.

Owner

This home was owned by Dr. Kenneth Latterell, anesthesiologist at St. Mary's Hopsital, and his wife Kimberely from 1949 to 1980 and is where they raised their 8 children. Dr. Latterell built a huge toboggan ramp at the back of his lot that all of us neighborhood kids used to ride down their front yard, across the street and into the Bishop's curving driveway.