2221 E 2nd St
Duluth, MN 55812, USA

Is this our house?

We moved to Duluth in 1948 my dad. Establish the anesthesia department. What was the St. Mary's hospital? We rented a small home on 17th Avenue East.
Where the fourth child and our family was born.. one day mom took me To visit the most beautiful house. I'd ever seen. I asked her who lived here. They must have been very rich. She told me we are going to live here. This is our new home period two more kids arrived in that home got to small but I remember
The cranberry bushes are long the back. Fence that the Bishop lived next door and my brother would go over and play pool with him. The maid's bathroom is in the basement. And there was a beautiful bathroom right off of what used to be the library. What does down the dining room? I remember watching our first television set in that library. We only had one bathroom upstairs but a huge bathtub. So we could give both a little boys about. At the same time, the big closet off. Mom and dad's bathroom was a nursery for a while. In my bed, bedroom was at the back of the house. I shared it with my grandmother for a while. It was a lovely home. I enjoyed every minute of it as a little kid.
The baby grand piano was to the left. Just as you went into the living room, we always had formal dinners in the dining room which is now a family room.
, The lower level had a big fat panel Dre room and to the left of that was our huge coal-burning furnace. My dad would go take the clickers out before he left for the hospital in the morning. There was large laundry room down and i a storage room where my mother would store cases of canned goods. and other dry products.

Julia Duncan Residence

Julia Duncan’s house is a fine example of the “Picturesque” approach to Tudor revival style, featuring a variety of high-quality materials (brick, stone, stucco, timbers, and wood shingles) and excellent craftsmanship. She built the house after the death of her husband David, who with their son Charles was a partner of Frank Brewer (the Duncan’s son-in-law) in the Duncan and Brewer Lumber Company, which set up a mill at the foot of Thirty-Ninth Avenue West in 1880.

HISTORY

Patty Duke stayed in this house during the filming of "You'll Like my Mother", a thriller which also starred Richard Thomas (The Waltons).

Ownership

My parents, Dr. Patrick Marrone (St. Mary's Hospital) and Barbara Franta Marrone owned this home from 1954-1959. I spent my early years there, along with four other siblings. The cool basement, where we spent many summer days, had a tile inset shuffleboard game and huge pinewood frames window seats, perfect for reading. Most every room was covered in small print wallpaper. The stairs at the back of the house ("servant's stairs".......of course we had no servants) were very dark, narrow and steep. The main bathroom included a large clawfoot tub. The living room had a marble fireplace with a large mirror over it. And finally, there was a wonderful screened-in summer porch on the side of the house where we spent most of the summer.

Architects

This home was designed by CARL NYSTROM and WILLIAM T. BRAY, who also designed the house next door at 2215 East 2nd Street. They were hired by Charles Duncan; this home was for his mother.