The Phoenix Hotel in Lanesboro was built at the cost of $50,000 in 1870. The hotel was four stories with saloon, baggage room, and railroad ticket office. The stone used for its construction was quarried from local bluffs. Its parlors and suites were expensively furnished. It was widely advertised as both a high class hotel for the traveling public, as well as a sanitarium. The hotel housed the Bank of Lanesboro, the businesses of Hanson & Davis, and Knudson & Hobart. Its landlords were Messrs. Chase and White. The building was destroyed by fire on May 5, 1885.
View is to the northwest from the top of Bruns' and Finkle's Elevator A at Front (Center Ave) and 6th Street North. Visible are businesses along the north side of Front Street between 4th and 5th Streets North incluiding Moorhead City Hall and Fire Station. In the foreground at left is Moorhead's Point neighborhood in distance at right and Fargo, Dakota Territory in the distance at left. This is the same scene as the one photographed Ole E. Flaten in 1879. See mhs06865.
View is to the northeast from the west side of 4th Street North just south of Front Street (Center Avenue). Visible are businesses along the north side of Front Street and the east side of 4th Stret North including S. A. Lochen's Clothing Store on Front and Ole A. Flaten's photo gallery and I. O Hanson's Tailor shop at right on 4th Street. Horse-drawn wagons line the north side of Front Street and a lone figure crosses Front in the foreground.
Bonde Building on the corner of Litchfield Avenue and 4th Street S.W. in Willmar, MN. Peter Bonde was sheriff in Kandiyohi County from 1906-1927. He was known as the Prohibition Sheriff. Images in this collection were taken by Peter Bonde from 1890-1910.
The view is to the southeast from the north side of Front Street (now Center Avenue) just west of 4th Street North. Workers are paving Front Street with cut cedar logs which were placed on end over a fir plank base. On the corner, across the intersection, stands Ole E. Flaten's Photo Gallery. On top of the pole at the corner, a telephone lineman strings wire. Two unidentified young African American men stand in the middle of the intersection.
View is to the northeast from the top of the Moorhead Manufacturing Company Flour Mill on the south side of Main Avenue and 3rd Street South. Visible are numerous businesses, mostly saloons, lining the north side of Main Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets South. Downtown Moorhead is visible in the distance; in the foreground at right can be seen the Peter Heinrich Bottling Works with an ad for Joseph Schlitz Beer painted on its side.
Louis Ford and Sophie Goslin are married by Moorhead Municipal Court Justice Peter Odegaard on the corner of Front Street (Center Avenue) and 4th Street North in Moorhead on September 21, 1898. The view is to the northwest from the top of Ole E. Flaten's photo studio on the southeast corner of Front and 4th streets. Among the spectators are Moorhead Mayor Arthur G. Lewis, in the white pants behind and to the left of Odegaard, members of a uniformed band and several people with bicycles. The wedding was part of a Fall Harvest Festival and decorations include an archway above the intersection made of wheat topped with an American flag. Jack o' lanterns, bunting and decorated animal pens are visible on 4th Street.
Fargo Moorhead Electric Street Railway streetcar number 5 turns off Front Street (Center Avenue) onto 4th Street North in downtown Moorhead. The view is to the northeast of Front Street just east of 4th Street. Visible beyond the streetcar is Pederson Brothers' Mercantile Company wholesale liquor distributing business and, in the distance at right, I. C. Week's grocery store.
View is to the northwest from the south side of Front Street (Center Avenue) just east of 8th Street North. The Columbia Hotel stands on the corner across the intersection. Front Street is torn up for construction of the Courthouse line of the Fargo and Moorhead Electric Street Railway. Two young girls and two men stand on the street in front of the Hotel. Two flag-like signs stuck into the ground on either side of 8th Street read "Gas for Cooking, for Lighting, for Heating."
View is to the northeast from the west side of 4th Street North just south of Front Street (Center Avenue). Visible are businesses along the north side of Front Street and the east side of 4th Street North including Ed Smith's Saloon and Palace Clothiers, both in the Gletne Block on the corner, Jacob Kiefer's saloon and Wholesale Liquor business and the Clay County Land Company on Front Street; in the distance at left is visible the domed steeple of Street Joseph's Catholic Church on 4th Street North.
View is to the southeast from the northeast corner of 2nd Avenue North and 1st Street.Thomas Erdel's Rathskeller Over the Rhine Saloon, recently constructed, stands on the corner across the intersection. Erdel's House is visible through the trees at left.
View is to the northeast from the Moorhead end of the Main Avenue bridge over the Red River. Visible are numerous businesses, mostly saloons, some decorated with flags and bunting, lining the north side of Main Avenue including the Inter-State Saloon, A. J. Rustad's Saloon and the Workingman's Home Hotel. A pile of bridge plank sits on the north side of Main Avenue at left; men and horse-drawn wagons stand on the bridge and street. A clock hangs in the middle of a billboard for General Arthur Cigars at extreme left, reading 9:52 and around the clock are the words "U. S. Observatory Time Hourly By W. U. Tel. Co."
Four views of Spooner, Minnesota showing the Shevlin Mathieu lumber mill; Spooner from the Baudette Bay on July 5, 1909; the new school, 1909; and street scene of August 3, 1907.
View is to the west on Main Ave from 4th Street South. Visible are businesses, mostly saloons, lining the north side of Main Avenue including the Gold Mine Jug House on extreme right. In the distance stands the Main Ave bridge to Fargo, North Dakota. On the corner at left is the Kassenborg Block.