The top picture is a photograph of the Keeney Building at Broadway and Second Avenue after the fire. Note the clock housing atop the the beveled corner of the face of the building. Also note in the left center the distinctive chimney on the facade still standing behind the Keeney building and the angle at which the partially destroyed wall falls away from the corner opposite the chimney.

The same buildings can be seen in the panoramic image of downtown after the fire. Look under the "93" in the "Fire of 1893" title. You will see the Keeney Building and the "chimney building" to the right of it.

 

 

 

In the center photograph, the closest structure that can be seen (on the left) is the same far corner of the "chimney" building noted in the top photograph above. Beyond that facade, one can see (in the center) the inside of that beveled Keeney building front wall seen in the top photograph above. The "clock housing bevel" is the corner furthest away.

 

 

 

 

 

On the far left side of the bottom photograph, you can again see the profile of the Keeney building, with the clock structure on the far side. The jagged tower-like ruins across the street from it (with the broad flat structure extending to the right of it) as well as the chimney of the only four-story building in sight (to the far right) is unmistakable.

 

For more pictures of fire of 1893, please continue here.

A big thanks to Ole for his comments and help with these images !

 

Fargo, North Dakota

The Fire of 1893 (p4)

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