Morgan Park

<div> <p>From 1915 to 1971 the large U.S. Steel plant was a major part of Duluth's landscape and life. Just as important was Morgan Park-an innovatively planned and close-knit community constructed for the plant's employees and their families. In this new book Arnold R. Alanen brings to life Morgan Park the formerly company-controlled town that now stands as a city neighborhood and the U.S. Steel plant for which it was built.</p> <p>Planned by renowned landscape architects architects and engineers and provided with schools churches and recreational and medical services by U.S. Steel Morgan Park is an iconic example-like Lowell Massachusetts and Pullman Illinois-of a twentieth-century company town as well as a window into northeastern Minnesota's industrial roots.</p> <p>Starting with the intense political debates that preceded U.S. Steel's decision to build a plant in Duluth Morgan Park follows the town and its residents through the boom years to the closing of the outmoded facility-an event that foreshadowed industrial shutdowns elsewhere in the United States-and up to today as current residents work to preserve the community's historic character.</p> <p>Through compelling archival and contemporary photographs and vibrant stories of a community built of concrete and strong as steel Alanen shows the impact both the plant and Morgan Park have had on life in Duluth.</p> <p>Arnold R. Alanen is professor of landscape architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His previous books include Main Street Ready-Made: The New Deal Community of Greendale Wisconsin and Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America.  </p> </div>