I don't know where this photograph was taken. What is particularly interesting in this picture is the material in the lower right.
Fargo suffered with mud streets for many years. In the 1890s, Fargo paved many street with wooden blocks. When the flood of 1897 occurred, the blocks simply floated away in the water and can be clearly seen piling up in the photograph above. Wooden blocks were not used again as pavers.
For more pictures of the 1897 flood, please continue here.
This photograph of the 1897 flood looks southwest. The building on the far left is Jones Hall at Fargo College. The building on the far right is the Cass County Courthouse [this courthouse burned down in 1903 and was replaced by the present courthouse]. In the center (over the flooded roof), is the First Congregational Church on Third Avenue and Seventh Street South.