Faculty houses and a church on Summit Avenue, looking west. The church is likely the first site of Macalester Presbyterian Church at 1652 Summit. The church building was dedicated on January 12, 1890. Caption reads: "Sweep of prairie on Summit Avenue looking west. Row of faculty homes; church."
Looking northwest at a southbound car on Greenbrier Street. The caption reads "1880, and this is last car on Greenbrier before the line was moved to Payne Avenue" The caption appears to be incorrect as the line stayed on Greenbrier. The car depicted wasn't delivered until 1884.
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.
New standard gauge track was laid next to old narrow gauge track to permit continued operation during conversion from horsecars to electric cars. Printed in Germany.
Looking west on Chestnut Street across the Main Street intersection. A westbound streetcar is headed uphill in the block west of Main. Another streetcar is northbound on Main Street at right.