Exterior view of American Exchange Bank, 401 Chestnut Street. Incorporated in March 1904, it was reorganized as American Exchange National Bank in November 1919.
Mesaba Electric Railway tracks running south along 3rd Avenue from Pine Street, with lit electric lighting on either side, with Itasca Bazaar Company store at right.
Opie purchased this studio, located on the southwest corner of West 4th Street and South Main Street, from C. H. Rogers. Within the next five years, the Zumbro Hotel would occupy this corner, and the original Mayo Clinic Building would be built on the western half of this same block.