Panoramic photograph of Minnesota Odd Fellows Home at Northfield, Minnesota. Three-story brick building at left is labeled Old Folks Home and multi-story brick building at right in a Dutch style is labeled Children's Home. Both were built about 1900.
Edgerton's Modern Woodman of America Lodge members pose with a band. All members are wearing decorative ribbons on their coat lapels. No lodge members are identified. The Modern Woodmen of America is a fraternal benefit society founded in 1883.
West Duluth; Bethany Home Thirty-ninth Avenue west; children's home; Christmas star decoration; articles of Incorporation filed March 18, 1915; doors opened May 1, 1916, with three children; 1928 there were 72 children; supported by the Community Fund; fire October 10, 1920; brick building; reopened 1922 at same address Thirty-ninth Avenue west and Ninth street; razed 1974
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections