Duluth · private
The first house, North Third Avenue East
The yellow duplex is a stop on Bob Dylan Way; its owner is the Dylan collector Bill Pagel.
A private house: see it only from the street. Named here, not mapped.
Duluth · Hibbing · the Village · Newport · London · Manchester · Woodstock · Tulsa
Bob
Dylan
Nine places on cue cards, held up in front of the alley.
In May 1965 he held up cue cards in a London alley and let them fall, one by one. Here every card is a place he passed through, and most of them you can still stand in.
North country
A lake town,
then an iron town.
Robert Zimmerman, later Bob Dylan, was born at St Mary’s Hospital in Duluth on 24 May 1941. The family lived at 519 North Third Avenue East until 1948.
Bob Dylan WayDepot→Fitger’s→Armory1.8 mi
Superior Street
Bob Dylan Way, Duluth
Bob Dylan Way is a 1.8-mile cultural pathway through downtown Duluth. It follows Superior Street from the Depot to the Armory, with 30 historical placards and a few decorative manhole covers. One of the Dylan manhole covers is outside the Fitger’s Brewing Complex; another is near the corner of the Armory.
Free, any time. Follow the brown, black and white signs along Superior Street from the Depot to the Armory; the pin is at Fitger’s.
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January 1959
The Duluth Armory
Buddy Holly played the Duluth Armory in January 1959, and the teenage Robert Zimmerman was in the crowd.
Now called the Armory Arts & Music Center, it marks the end of Bob Dylan Way. A grassroots group bought the building in 2001; in 2022 The Current reported it was overseeing a $25 million restoration.
See it from London Road, at the east end of Bob Dylan Way.
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Hibbing High School auditorium
Six chandeliers,
one broken pedal.
Its 1,825-seat auditorium has six Belgian crystal chandeliers and a 1922 Steinway grand.
The band is plugged in. You are the teacher.
He graduated from Hibbing High School on 5 June 1959. The Hibbing Public Library keeps a Bob Dylan exhibit, with a walking-tour map and podcast of the town.
A working school: see it from Bob Dylan Drive. The public library downtown keeps the Dylan exhibit and a walking-tour map.
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Hibbing · private
The Zimmerman house, Seventh Avenue East
Dylan lived at 2425 Seventh Avenue East, Hibbing, from 1948 to 1959.
A private house: drive by only, unless a sign on the lawn gives a number to call. Named here, not mapped.
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Explore Minnesota
A Dylan tour of Minnesota
Duluth and Hibbing · Self-guided · free
The state’s own itinerary: Duluth, Bob Dylan Way, Hibbing and the library exhibit, with the walking map.
Get the itineraryGreenwich Village, 1961–1963
Basements, Sundays
and a winter walk.
24 Jan 1961
Café Wha?
On 24 January 1961, a cold Tuesday hootenanny, a 19-year-old Bob Dylan, just in from Minnesota, played there.
Manny Roth opened Café Wha? in 1959, in the basement of an old MacDougal Street horse stable. The original club closed in 1968; the Café Wha? name came back at 115 MacDougal in 1988. Across the street, at 116 MacDougal, was the Gaslight Poetry Café.
Still a music club, down the steps at 115 MacDougal. The Gaslight’s old address, 116, is across the street.
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9 Apr 1961
Washington Square
Folk musicians had been meeting in Washington Square Park on Sundays since the 1940s. On 9 April 1961, after the Parks Department refused them a permit, police with paddy wagons broke up a crowd of several hundred singers; the folk singers got their permit in the end.
In the park, Dylan learned finger-picking from experts.
A public park, open every day.
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1962–63 · private
161 West 4th
Dylan and Suze Rotolo lived together at 161 West 4th Street. In February 1963 the Freewheelin’ cover shoot began in their flat before moving out into the street.
Private flats: named here, not mapped. Jones Street is a short walk along West 4th.
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Footprints in the slush
February 1963: from the flat on West 4th to the corner of Jones Street. Drag along the street, or take it a step at a time.
Still in the flat on West 4th.
February 1963 · Jones Street at West 4th
In February 1963 Columbia’s staff photographer Don Hunstein photographed Dylan and Suze Rotolo walking together through slushy streets on a cold afternoon.
NYC Tourism places the cover photograph of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan at Jones Street and West 4th Street. Its informal look was unlike the carefully composed images on most LP covers of the time.
A public street, any time. Stand at the West 4th Street end of Jones Street.
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Washington Square Hotel
Washington Square Hotel
Greenwich Village, New York
A 1902 hotel at 103 Waverly Place, steps from the park. Café Wha? and Jones Street are a short walk. Pictured: the arch.
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Compare toursSavoy Steps, London, May 1965
Hold it up.
Let it fall.
In May 1965 D. A. Pennebaker filmed Dylan dropping cue cards one by one in the alley behind London’s Savoy Hotel. Donovan, Allen Ginsberg and Bob Neuwirth helped him scrawl the words onto the flimsy cards. Neuwirth and Ginsberg are in the background, pretending to have a conversation.
The alley
Card 1 of 13
Duluth, Minnesota · 24 May 1941 · private
The first house, North Third Avenue East
Robert Zimmerman is born at St Mary’s Hospital, Duluth.
Robert Zimmerman, later Bob Dylan, was born at St Mary’s Hospital in Duluth on 24 May 1941.
The family lived at 519 North Third Avenue East until 1948.
A private house: see it only from the street. Named here, not mapped.
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Card 1 of 13: DULUTH. The first house, North Third Avenue East.
Newport, Rhode Island · 25 July 1965
Acoustic.
For now.
Dylan played electric at the Newport Folk Festival at Festival Field on 25 July 1965. Festival Field was the 1965 festival venue; the present festival takes place at Fort Adams.
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Unplugged: a folk festival, as the crowd expected.
The Newport Folk Festival, Fort Adams
Fort Adams is the present festival site; Dylan’s 1965 performance took place at Festival Field. Fort Adams is the largest coastal fortification in the United States; the Fort Adams Trust runs tours of its tunnels and bastions from May to October.
The state park is open to everyone. The Fort Adams Trust runs fort tours from May to October; the festival comes back each July.
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Fort Adams Trust
Fort Adams tours
Newport, Rhode Island · May–October · ghost tours all year
Guided tours of the tunnels, casemates and bastions of the fort whose park now holds the Newport Folk Festival.
Book a tour17 May 1966
The famous London concert
was in Manchester.
BOB DYLAN · LIVE 1966
Free Trade Hall, Manchester
17 May 1966
“Royal Albert Hall”
The label says London. Peel it.
On 17 May 1966, at the Free Trade Hall, someone in the audience shouted “Judas” after “Ballad of a Thin Man”.
The Royal Albert Hall
Don’t Look Back follows the spring 1965 tour from Sheffield to his final concert at the Albert Hall. He was back at the Hall on 26 and 27 May 1966. For decades the most famous 1966 live recording was credited to these Albert Hall nights. It was made in Manchester.
A working concert hall in Kensington: see a show, or book one of its guided tours.
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261 km
between the hall on the label and the hall on the tape
The Free Trade Hall
The hall was built between 1853 and 1856 on St Peter’s Field, the site of the Peterloo Massacre. It is now The Edwardian Manchester, a Radisson Collection hotel with 263 rooms.
Now a hotel: the facade on Peter Street is the hall’s own. Walk past any time, or stay the night.
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Radisson Collection
The Edwardian Manchester
Peter Street, Manchester
The Free Trade Hall itself, rebuilt inside as a 263-room hotel behind the original Peter Street facade. You sleep where the shout came from.
See the hotel
The Savoy
The Savoy
Savoy Court, London
The hotel of 1889 on the Strand, with the cue-card alley, Savoy Steps, running down beside it. Pictured: the alley.
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Woodstock · 29 July 1966
The crash,
then the basement.
On 29 July 1966 Dylan came off his motorcycle on back roads near Woodstock, riding back from his manager Albert Grossman’s place in West Saugerties. No ambulance was called and no hospital visit was recorded.
He stayed at his Woodstock home through the rest of 1966 and into 1967, and did not tour again for eight years, apart from a handful of shows.
A small Catskills town, open to all. His houses here were private and are not listed.
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West Saugerties · private
Big Pink, West Saugerties
After the 1966 crash, Dylan and the musicians who became the Band recorded in the basement of Big Pink. In 2015 the house was let to holidaymakers at $650 a night; the basement was not part of the rental.
A private house: not open, and not on the map.
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Tape loaded. Summer 1967.
116 E. Reconciliation Way, Tulsa
The archive.
100,000 things he kept.
The George Kaiser Family Foundation acquired Dylan’s archive in 2016, after Dylan learned of the Woody Guthrie Center nearby and wanted his archive under the same roof. The Bob Dylan Center opened in 2022.
The archive holds more than 100,000 items, among them handwritten lyrics, rare recordings and personal photographs. Its three-storey façade faces Guthrie Green and carries a mural of Dylan by Erik Burke.
Thin Wild Mercury, a rotating exhibit, is about Dylan in 1966.
Wednesday to Sunday, 10am–6pm. Adults $15 plus tax; 17 and under free. An audioguide is included.
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Bob Dylan Center
The Bob Dylan Center
Tulsa, Oklahoma · Wed–Sun 10am–6pm · adults $15 + tax
Rotating exhibits from an archive of more than 100,000 items, with an audioguide.
Plan a visitLast card.
Where it is now
12 places you can visit, in four areas. The family houses in Duluth and Hibbing, the flat at 161 West 4th Street and Big Pink are private homes: named on this page, never mapped.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Free, any time. Follow the brown, black and white signs along Superior Street from the Depot to the Armory; the pin is at Fitger’s.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. See it from London Road, at the east end of Bob Dylan Way.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working school: see it from Bob Dylan Drive. The public library downtown keeps the Dylan exhibit and a walking-tour map.
Fitger’s, on Bob Dylan Way, Duluth, 2016. David Wilson from Oak Park, Illinois, USA · CC BY 2.0 Superior Street, Duluth
Bob Dylan Way, Duluth
Bob Dylan Way is a 1.8-mile cultural pathway through downtown Duluth.
Free, any time. Follow the brown, black and white signs along Superior Street from the Depot to the Armory; the pin is at Fitger’s.
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The Duluth Armory and its drill hall, 2010. Minnesota Local History & Historic Preservation · CC BY-SA 2.0 London Road, Duluth
The Duluth Armory
Buddy Holly played the Duluth Armory in January 1959, and the teenage Robert Zimmerman was in the crowd.
See it from London Road, at the east end of Bob Dylan Way.
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Hibbing High School, 800 East 21st Street, 2023. Tony Webster from Laramie, Wyoming, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0 Bob Dylan Drive, Hibbing
Hibbing High School
He graduated from Hibbing High School on 5 June 1959.
A working school: see it from Bob Dylan Drive. The public library downtown keeps the Dylan exhibit and a walking-tour map.
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Stay
Sleep near the stage.
In the Free Trade Hall itself, at the Savoy beside the cue-card alley, or a block from Washington Square.
Radisson Collection
The Edwardian Manchester
Peter Street, Manchester
The Free Trade Hall itself, rebuilt inside as a 263-room hotel behind the original Peter Street facade. You sleep where the shout came from.
See the hotelThe Savoy
The Savoy
Savoy Court, London
The hotel of 1889 on the Strand, with the cue-card alley, Savoy Steps, running down beside it. Pictured: the alley.
Check roomsWashington Square Hotel
Washington Square Hotel
Greenwich Village, New York
A 1902 hotel at 103 Waverly Place, steps from the park. Café Wha? and Jones Street are a short walk. Pictured: the arch.
Check roomsGo there
Walk in.
The archive in Tulsa, the fort at Newport, the state’s own Minnesota route, and walks in the Village and London.
Bob Dylan Center
The Bob Dylan Center
Tulsa, Oklahoma · Wed–Sun 10am–6pm · adults $15 + tax
Rotating exhibits from an archive of more than 100,000 items, with an audioguide.
Plan a visitFort Adams Trust
Fort Adams tours
Newport, Rhode Island · May–October · ghost tours all year
Guided tours of the tunnels, casemates and bastions of the fort whose park now holds the Newport Folk Festival.
Book a tourExplore Minnesota
A Dylan tour of Minnesota
Duluth and Hibbing · Self-guided · free
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Posters, books and records.
Three originals from our store, including Glaser’s 1967 poster, his own books, and the records from these streets.
Printed Originals · Our poster store
Bob Dylan — Don’t Look Back (1967)
An original 1967 poster for Pennebaker’s film, the one that opens in the Savoy alley. Art by Alan Aldridge, mint.
Available framed
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Bob Dylan — Milton Glaser (1967)
Milton Glaser’s original 1967 poster, previously folded as issued, near mint.
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Bob Dylan — On Columbia Records (1966)
An original 1966 record-shop poster from the electric year. Art by Christopher Peterson, mint.
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The Philosophy of Modern Song
Bob Dylan
His essays on other people’s songs.
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The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan · LP reissue, 2012
The Jones Street cover.
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Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan · LP, UK pressing, 1965
The first electric summer, on record.
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Bob Dylan · 2 × LP, 1998
Recorded in Manchester, whatever the sleeve says.
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The Basement Tapes
Bob Dylan and the Band · 2 × LP, 1975
The Big Pink sessions, released in 1975.
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The liner notes
Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
17 of 17 places · 13 of 13 Moments
The first house, North Third Avenue East
Duluth, Minnesota
Born in Duluth
Robert Zimmerman is born at St Mary’s Hospital, Duluth.
Bob Dylan Way, Duluth
Superior Street, Duluth
The Duluth Armory
London Road, Duluth
Buddy Holly at the Armory
Buddy Holly plays the Duluth Armory, with the teenage Robert Zimmerman in the crowd.
The Zimmerman house, Seventh Avenue East
Hibbing, Minnesota
Hibbing High School
Bob Dylan Drive, Hibbing
Graduation
He graduates from Hibbing High School.
Café Wha?, 115 MacDougal Street
MacDougal Street, Greenwich Village
The first night
A 19-year-old just in from Minnesota plays a Tuesday hootenanny at Café Wha?
161 West 4th Street
West 4th Street, Greenwich Village
Jones Street, the Freewheelin’ corner
Jones Street at West 4th Street
The cover
Don Hunstein photographs Dylan and Suze Rotolo in the slush for The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.
Washington Square Park
Greenwich Village
The folk riot
Police break up the Sunday folk singers in Washington Square; the singers win their permit back.
Festival Field, Newport
Former festival site on Connell Highway, Newport, Rhode Island; boundaries not established
Electric
Dylan plays electric at the Newport Folk Festival at Festival Field.
The Newport Folk Festival, Fort Adams
Fort Adams State Park, Newport, Rhode Island
Woodstock, New York
Ulster County, New York
The crash
He comes off his motorcycle near Woodstock.
Big Pink, West Saugerties
West Saugerties, New York
The basement
Dylan and the future Band record in the basement of Big Pink.
Savoy Steps, behind the Savoy
off the Strand, London
The cue cards
Dylan drops cue cards one by one in the alley behind the Savoy.
The Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore, London
The last acoustic night
The 1965 England tour ends at the Albert Hall.
The Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Peter Street, Manchester
“Judas”
A shout from the audience in Manchester, and Dylan’s answer.
The Bob Dylan Center, Tulsa
116 E. Reconciliation Way, Tulsa, Oklahoma
The archive goes to Tulsa
His archive is acquired for Tulsa; the Bob Dylan Center opens there six years later.