Overview of the Turnblad mansion taken from the apartment building across Park Avenue. Completed in 1908, the Swan J. Turnblad mansion was built in the French Chateauesque style. The house became the American Swedish Institute in 1929.
An exterior view showing the front of the Women's Christian Temperance Union Temple (W. C. T. U.), a two-story Lecture Hall for temperance and other timely topics. On August 25, 1889, the building was bought at a sheriff's sale and was used for traveling shows, school activities, and funerals.
Wooden posts mark the boundaries of where to dig on the site of the new Seminary building in Arden Hills. The front of a bulldozer emerges from the left side.
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The History Center, Archives of Bethel University and Converge Worldwide - BGC
This was once the home of the Zachris Peter Hedberg family in St. Peter. The house is located on the southwest corner of the intersection of Fourth and Walnut Streets, facing Fourth Street. Zachris is sitting in a chair on the lawn, below his wife, Johanna, and his daughter, Hilda. Son Harry is in the corner tower, and Johanna's parents, Fajer and Hanna Knutson, are sitting on a bench on the lawn.