Purple Car Coffeehouse & Cafe
Coffee house and cafe · 26 Waterview Drive, Proctor, MN 55810
About Purple Car Coffeehouse & Cafe
The Purple Car is the coffee house at the south end of Proctor, near the Boundary Avenue and US 2 junction rather than in the old town centre up the hill on 3rd Avenue.
Proctor is a railroad town whose commercial life is split between two places: the historic 3rd Avenue blocks with the pizza shop and the bars, and the highway node at the bottom of the hill. A sit-down coffee house at the highway end fills a gap the old centre does not, and it is the nearest one to Bayview Heights and the Midway Road corridor.
The name is local: Proctor is a rail town and the purple car is a nod to it. Hours are not published by the business, so confirm before you go.
Good to know: espresso, cafe menu, seating, wifi, near the US 2 junction.
Neighborhoods it serves
The railroad town on the hill: small district, small prices, and the Munger Trail out the back.
Bayview HeightsDuluth by address, Proctor by school bus, 600 feet above West Duluth.
HermantownThe Twin Ports' new-construction suburb: level lots, its own schools, and everything on Miller Hill five minutes away.
Gary-New DuluthTwo company-era river towns that people now treat as one, and the service center for the far west end.
Where these facts come from
- Restaurantji current listing, Purple Car Coffeehouse & Cafe, 26 Waterview Drive, Proctor accessed 2026-08-14
Last reviewed 2026-08-14 by Guide editorial.