Interior view of a barbershop in Hendricks. On the right wall is a cabinet. Each patron had their own shaving mugs stored here. Alfred Arnold is the barber. Also pictured are Larry Hanson, Bill Fredricks and an unidentified fourth person. This barbershop was torn down many years ago.
Originally this house was built in Ash Lake Township. In 1889, it was moved to Shaokatan Township. Six children were raised in this house. Every one is lined up outside the house with many of the other farm buildings in the background.
Selma Crofoot holds the whip and the rains, while Virgil Trulock at age 3 is at the other end of the harness as the horse. In the background is the house and empty prairie.
Two men Ernest Schorfe and Leo Swenson are sitting in a 1910 Buick. The steering wheel is on the right, the hand brakes are outside the car and it has no top.
Two boats are pulling up to the docks on Lake Hendricks. A rowboat is filled with men, women and children. The Lady Hendricks is filled with people to the point she is almost sinking. The smoke stack of the boat is pushing out smoke. Several people and a tent are in the back ground. All people are celebrating the 4th of July.
Several people are gathered on the front steps of Calvary celebrating 50 years as a congregation. The church was on the corner of Park and Hobart streets. It burned down in 1988.
A large tank stands where it always did but the brick walls around it are gone. Also remaining is a fire hose reel. This was the city building in Tyler, Minnesota.
The C.M. Foss is surrounded by Scaffolding. Carpenters will stand on the scaffolding to work. Individual boards are used as the sheeting later to be covered with siding. Today this is the home of John and Joy Thomsen.
The C.M. Foss home still is present today. It is a private home on the corner of Division Street and Garfield Street. Mr. and Mrs. Foss are standing in front of their home with young trees, several flowers and shrubs around the house. The front of the house has a large screen porch.
Several Horse and buggies are parked together on the street and road of gravel. The railroad track and bridge are on the left as well as the lake. Today we would see lake homes and a golf course.
This house was built on the north side of Lake Shaokatan in 1878. It still stands, and was remodeled some time later. It was the home of Andrew Crain which was occupied later by his son and family and then later by a grandson and family, Dick Crain. This picture is of the P.K. Petersen family who lived there for a couple of years about 1895.
The Dray man delivered freight from the railroad depot to homes and businesses. Here the dray man is sitting in his wagon. The wagon is being pulled by a team of two horses and it looks like there is a bag of seed in the back of the wagon. Here people are looking at the damage of stripped trees, building debris, and leaning telephone poles.
On the left is Ed Goodoien and on the right is clerk Pete Shelstad. An early general store. It stood on the corner of Main and Lincoln Street in Hendricks, Minnesota. Display cases and shelves are filled with merchandise on both sides of the center aisle.
Three elevators and the depot are present. A railroad freight car is being unloaded on the platform. Today the elevators are gone and the depot has been moved to the lake park and is now the Lincoln County Pioneer Museum
The train is pulled up to the elevators. The depot is also present on the right. The elevators are the Hendricks Farmers elevator, Sexaur's, Hendricks Coop Elevator and Jennison. Only the Hendricks farmers elevator exists today as the business but not the elevator building. Two tracks were present to allow a train to come through while railroad cars were standing to be loaded. Behind the depot on the right is the water tower for trains. The trains used the water to make steam to power the engine.
Oscar Erickson and Lloyd Johnson stand with furniture, lamps, refrigerators and pictures. Lloyd Johnson was also hired as the mortician in the same building. Today this building is home to The Local, a restaurant.
Portrait of Jens Hans and his family. The family are grouped together in the foreground, with some of their personal items incluidng an Edison phonograph. The house and the barns are also visible.
Sivert Olson, the first manager of the elevator, is ready to unload a wagon of grain pulled by a team of horses. On the side track are three railroad cars waiting to be used.
Threshing grain required many people and lots of work. One man is pitching bundles into the threshing machine while the other is watching the steam engine.
The typical farm had a house, barn, and several other buildings for chickens, hogs and grain storage. Several horses and cows are also seen as well as rows of corn starting to grow in the field.
Participants celebrating the 50 year anniversary of the first settlers in Hendricks, Minnesota. A man Is standing by a wagon pulled by a team of oxen. Four more people are dressed as a trapper and early immigrants standing next to a sod house.
This church was built in 1884 and was 5 miles south and 1 mile east of Hendricks, Minnesota. Its members were mostly German. The church was used until 1927 when it was destroyed by fire. Many cars are parked around the church for Sunday morning church service.
The first creamery in Hendricks was located by the creek in the northwest part of town. A slaughter house was nearby off the creek. A man is standing in his wagon delivering two cream cans to the creamery. A horse is pulling the man and his cart.
The Henry Kurth Jr. home was used as the first post office for the New Grove Community. Several children are lined up with warm coats, chairs, and doll buggies. Some of the boys have caps and suspenders and the girls are all in long dresses.
Five men have been busy loading a straw bundle wagon and are taking a break. The straw bundles will be later threshed in a threshing machine. The men are sitting on and around the large steam engine. One man is sitting on the large wheel used by the belt to power the threshing machine.
The Tyler, Minnesota, tornado left two cars are flattened under the collapsed roof of a garage. A telephone pole is leaning in the background with other buildings standing.
Trinity Lutheran Church still stands today. It is on the northeast corner of Main Street and Hobart. The church has been added to since this picture was taken. The church at this time was at the edge of town with no other buildings around it.
A group of people are standing on the platform at the Hendricks Minnesota railroad depot waiting for the train. They are leaving for Norway. The people are dressed up in hat and suits, and long dresses. Along with the travelers are several other people. Among the travelers are Mr. and Mrs. P. Bogen, Mr. and Mrs. Arnt Hinsvark and Mr. Peder Kvernmoe.
A team of three horses is pulling a binder to cut the grain and puts it in individual bundles. A man is riding the open binder The second man is gathering the bundles and placing them in shocks to be later thrashed.
The Hendricks Band is posing for a picture holding their instruments. Thirteen members are dressed in coat and ties holding instruments, drums, trumpets, clarinets, and tubas.
The creamery as it looked new. The entrance on the left was the receiving station. The building exists today minus the receiving station. It is being converted to a microbrewery.
Hendricks High School looked like this from the time it was built in 1923 until an expansion in the 1950s. The school has rows of large windows for classroom lighting and two main doors. This school was brick to decrease the fire risk after the first school was destroyed by fire.
Basketball players Gerhard Digre, Martin Skovly, Norvald Trooien, Gust Wahlstrom and Virgil Trulock pose for the team picture. Gerhard holding the basketball with the year and Virgil holding a trophy.
The west side of the building, looks the same today. The south and the east have had additions. Rows of tall windows on both first and second floor provided classroom lighting.
Mr. Dickinson stands behind the desk ready to greet people. Along with the guest register, are several boxes of cigars. In the background is the dining room, tables covered with tablecloths. The hotel no longer exists. The Legion Hall stands in its place now.
This house stood on the corner of Garfield and Park streets. The house has both a front and rear porch as well as a fenced in yard. In the peaks of the roof and on the porch was gingerbread, typical of many Victorian homes. Along with the house was a barn. It later was torn down and replaced with a new one-story house.
This church was built in 1891. it was used for church services until 1919 when a new church was built in Hendricks, Minnesota. This building was located 1 mile east and one half mile north of Hendricks, Minnesota. It was finally taken down in 1945.
The wooden frame hotel was three stories tall. It stands where the American Legion Hall is now in Hendricks, Minnesota. The street in front of the hotel was dirt with the sidewalk well above street level. Also along the street are telephone poles with eight cross boards attached.
The Norwegian Lutheran Church is on the left. This church still remains as is but is the Methodist church. The church on the right is Trinity Lutheran Church. It remains today and looks the same.
Piles of rubble are every where after the Tyler, Minnesota, tornado. A trunk sits undamaged in the debris. Several people are looking at the destruction.
Looking at the west side of Main Street several buildings exist today. The two story brick building in front was once an opera house, today it is Cedrics Restaurant. The brick bank buildings on the corner exist today as a private club the other is a fitness center. The last building on the west side of the street is still a church today. A wagon pulled by horses is also going down the street.
Main Street is lined with cars. The traffic sign was placed art the center of the intersection. The building at the far end is the school, still seeing students today.
Several people are on main street, the train and the circus are in town with large tents set up. Many of the business men lived with their families above their stores. Some of these families got to the second floor by outside steps.
Buildings only go a couple of blocks west of Main Street. The railroad is present and land is farmed right up to Lake Hendricks. Today houses are present up to the lake.
J. Hanson and Mrs. Reverend M.B. Lokkesmoe are posing for a picture in front of a sod house. J. Hanson is dressed up as a trapper. They have been in a parade celebrating the 50th year celebration of the settling of the Hendricks area.
Aerial view of the Marvin Dorn farm facing west. This farm is at the present day junction of Minnesota Highways 19 and 217. The farm yard is surrounded by trees to act as a windbreak and stop some blowing snow from entering the yard in the winter. Behind the house is the barn and silo and a field of shocked grain, ready for a thrashing crew.
The Methodist Episcopal Church was built on lot 18 of block 3 in Hendricks. It served as a church until 1965 when it was sold and torn down by Glen Johnson and Kenneth Buseth. The church is here with longer grass around it and many newly planted trees on the boulevard.
People are coming out of the church and many people are standing outside still visiting after a Sunday church service. The church was built in 1928 and dismantled in 1968 after the congregation merged with the Methodist church in Hendricks Minnesota.
The Norwegian Lutheran Church, Hendricks, Minnesota, became a spinoff congregation from Singsaas Lutheran Church. This building was First Lutheran Church until they moved to another building in 1963. Today this building is the Grace United Methodist church. When built the church was at the edge of town , only longer grass around it with no other buildings.
Mr. Alfred Froiland is walking in a parade leading a wagon pulled by cows. The parade is commemorating the 50th celebration of the settling of Lake Hendricks Colony.
People are lining both sides of Main Street for the parade. A circus wagon is pouring out smoke. Women are dressed in long white dresses and the men are wearing dark suits.
This is a view from the Hendricks water tower looking east. The school faces Park street with the homes on Park Street looking very similar today. On each side of the school are the boys and girls outhouses. This building eventually burned down.
Many present day structures in this picture exist today. The water tower is unchanged as are several of the homes and Main Street buildings. In the background is Lake Hendricks.
Jens Forseth is with the oxen. Dorothy Kirkvold Forseth is in the buggy. Mr. and Mrs. Peder Bogen are standing with their children by the wagon. Jay Bogen and Ina Bogen Trulock. All are standing in front of the Peder Bogen home.