Armory Arts & Misic Center - Duluth Minnesota
"when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I went to see Buddy Holly play at

the 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.)
Watch his acceptance speech
Developer Request for Proposals
(Armory and Adjacent Property Mixed-use Development) (RFP PDF)

Our 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.

Duluth, Minnesota has no recognition of its most famous native son, Bob Dylan.

The nation has no tribute to the Music Legends that created our American Music heritage traveling and performing in Armories in small towns and cities across the nation. Johnnie Cash, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison and the legends who just kept on keepin' on.

The Survivors, the 125th Veterans, that trained and enlisted in the Duluth Armory, and went on to see more combat than any other unit in World War II should be remembered in the historic Armory.