External view of a Red Wing boarding house, which was formerly a city hospital. It was located on East side of Dakota, North of Main Street. There is a sign on the side of the building that reads, "American House."
External view of the Andrew Koch building, which served as Red Wing's first hospital and was established in 1884. It was located at Southwest Dakota and Levee Streets. Andrew Koch built this house in the 1850s on the spot where Jorgenson Chevrolet once stood.
Exterior view of the Church of the Messiah which was installed at Prairie Island in 1905. The abandoned church was brought by barge by Prairie Island Mdewakanton people and is still in use 100 years later.
Early Barn Bluff businesses are shown. On the far left is the sawmill of Grannis, Daniels and Company. The Francis Ives building is in the center and the Metropolitan Hotel, which was later destroyed by a fire in 1869, is on the left.
Seated from left to right are J.W. Hancock, John Hack, Sr., H.B. Wilson, David Hancock. Standing from left to right are D.C. Hill, Wm. B. Hancock, Nathan Sargent, S.S. Grannis, M.B. Lewis, J.W. Northrup.
Exterior view of the first frame house built north of Melrose, Minnesota. The home had a log kitchen, two upstairs bedrooms, one downstairs bedroom, and a living room. People pose outside the home with horse-drawn carriages.