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May 5, 2021
DULUTH, Minn-After first opening at the beginning of the year, Bell Bank is inviting the community to its grand opening this week in the old Temple Opera building in downtown Duluth.
Visitors will be able take a tour of the multi-million dollar renovations and register for a chance to win various prizes. Special offers are also available to those who are interested in opening a new checking account.
“It was a full renovation of the temple opera building. It’s an old building as you can see. It’s 130 years old or so, so really, it was renovated top to bottom with the exterior retained. We wanted to keep that remarkable architecture that we have in the building, but then again, bringing it up to modern standards,” said Twin Ports market president Tim McShane.
An old historic building was renovated in Downtown Duluth and is now home to Fargo based Bell Bank.
The Temple Opera Building located at 201 E Superior Street was built in 1889 and has recently been remodeled and is now home to Bell Bank. The building was originally built to replace Duluth’s Grand Opera House which burned down to the ground in a fire.
The building was restored with exceptional care, despite being gutted many historic details are still preserved, the Duluth News Tribune talked to Tim McShane, Bell Bank Twin Ports market president, and he said, We didn’t want to lose the history of the building. There are not that many historical buildings left and we wanted to preserve everything that we possibly could.
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One bank opening a branch in Duluth has also renovated one of the city s historic buildings.
Bell Bank began renovating the Historic Temple Opera Building on East Superior Street in April last year.
The Fargo based bank leased the historic Hart District building saying they wanted to help preserve part as much of its design as possible.
Bell Bank s new Duluth branch began renovating the Historic Temple Opera Building on East Superior Street in April last year, before they opened for business this month.
Part of that included preserving the building’s brown stone design, and its keyhole window design.
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That building on East Superior Street is now home to the first Bell Bank location in Duluth.
The bank signed an agreement with developer Titanium Partners leasing all three floors of the site.
Management says the bank will be a great asset for the Historic Arts and Theatre District.
“There’s so much vibrancy going on on this end of town,” said Tim McShane, the president of Bell Bank Twin Ports market. “There’s some exciting things happening in the neighborhood. Lakeview Apartments, Essentia Health, some things happening across the street in the future, the theatre, bringing people together, bringing people downtown.”