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Collection Summary
Collection: B - B Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 0058-00001
Title: Hersey House Hotel in Arvilla (D.T.)
Date: 4/1883
Creator: George F. Blackburn & Co.
Inscription/Marks: [front] The "Hersey House" Hotel owned by Hughes & Hersey, Arvilla, N.T. Hotel in which the Legislative were banquested by Hughes & Hersey in 188? [back] GEO. F. BLACKBURN & CO. Photographers GRAND FORKS D.T. [envelope-print] Arvilla, Hersey House. Photo taken in about March-April 1883, shortly before hotel opened. Camera view to northwest. Two story frame building, 54 feet by 80 feet. Built by frank D. Hughes and Dudley H. Hersey, the founders and townsite boomers. Hersey gave the building and 133 adjoining acres to Grand Forks County in 1893 for use as the county poor farm.
Summary: Three quarter view of front and left side of two story wood frame building with porch on second floor on both sides over entrance doors and three dormer windows on the front and back and one on each side. Four chimneys are visible on roof. Construction material for steps is visible in street in front of two entrances. Six men are standing or sitting on the porch over the front entrance and four men are standing in front of front entrance door.
Red ID: PH_I_91191 Image ID: 49056 Image Notes: B0058-00001-back

Collection: B Digitized Images from Collection
Title: B Collection
Date: XX/XXXX

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Collection Summary
Collection: B - B Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 0058-00001
Title: Hersey House Hotel in Arvilla (D.T.)
Date: 4/1883
Creator: George F. Blackburn & Co.
Inscription/Marks: [front] The "Hersey House" Hotel owned by Hughes & Hersey, Arvilla, N.T. Hotel in which the Legislative were banquested by Hughes & Hersey in 188? [back] GEO. F. BLACKBURN & CO. Photographers GRAND FORKS D.T. [envelope-print] Arvilla, Hersey House. Photo taken in about March-April 1883, shortly before hotel opened. Camera view to northwest. Two story frame building, 54 feet by 80 feet. Built by frank D. Hughes and Dudley H. Hersey, the founders and townsite boomers. Hersey gave the building and 133 adjoining acres to Grand Forks County in 1893 for use as the county poor farm.
Summary: Three quarter view of front and left side of two story wood frame building with porch on second floor on both sides over entrance doors and three dormer windows on the front and back and one on each side. Four chimneys are visible on roof. Construction material for steps is visible in street in front of two entrances. Six men are standing or sitting on the porch over the front entrance and four men are standing in front of front entrance door.
Red ID: PH_I_91191 Image ID: 49054 Image Notes: B0058-00001

Collection: B Digitized Images from Collection
Title: B Collection
Date: XX/XXXX

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