This photograph of the Headquarters Hotel (looking west) shows the B.D. Buford & Co., Plows, along the south side of the NP tracks. Broadway, of course, runs through the center of the picture. Of particular interest is the tower-like structure in the upper right of the picture. This is the original Fargo Fire Department Tower with bell built in the spring of 1881. It burned down in the fire of 1893.

This photograph is from the State Historical Society of North Dakota Museum Collection C0549.

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