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, 700 feet above West Duluth.
Midway TownshipAcreage ten minutes from Proctor, with Jay Cooke over the back fence and a well and a septic system to look after.
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.