The image to the right is one-half of a stereoview photograph (enlarged and cropped). In the foreground of the picture, one can see a bandstand and a park where the NP Park used to be. Running diagonally across the bottom of the image is Broadway. Note the wooden sidewalk. Running across the center of the image are the Northern Pacific Railroad tracks.
To the left (west) of the Hotel can be seen a Dining Hall.
By 1891, Joseph Lamont was the proprietor and advertised rooms for $2 per day.
Shown above are two brass baggage/coat/hat check claim tokens from the hotel.
Although the hotel survived the terrible fire of 1893, it burned down on June 12, 1897, and was never rebuilt. It is said that the hotel had become something of an eyesore by that time and its destruction was not widely mourned.
The image below left is another stereoview showing a frost morning in the park across form the Headquarters Hotel.
Below is a partial scan of a letter on hotel stationary from 1885. Nove that they used straight pins to attach the second page.
Fargo, North Dakota
Headquarters Hotel (cont'd)
