Beltrami County Courthouse

Beltrami County Courthouse

Beltrami County Courthouse. Photograph by Hakkerup Studio, ca. 1910.

Beltrami County Courthouse

Beltrami County Courthouse

Beltrami County Courthouse. Postcard with a photograph by J. P. Omich, ca. 1905.

Beltrami County Courthouse

Beltrami County Courthouse

Beltrami County Courthouse. Photograph by Flickr user Keith Ewing, July 1, 2017. CC BY-NC 2.0.

Beltrami County Courthouse

The Beltrami County Courthouse, located at 619 Beltrami Avenue in Bemidji, is a three-story red brick and sandstone structure in the Beaux Arts style and the county’s most imposing example of public architecture.

Exterior of the Chief Theatre in Bemidji, 1975.

Exterior of the Chief Theatre

Exterior of the Chief Theatre in Bemidji, 1975. Used with the permission of the Beltrami County Historical Society.

Chief Theatre under construction

Chief Theatre under construction

The Chief Theatre in Bemidji under construction, ca. 1938.

Exterior of the Chief Theatre

Exterior of the Chief Theatre

Exterior of the Chief Theatre in Bemidji. Photograph by Keith Ewing, July 1, 2017. CC BY-NC 2.0.

Chief Theatre (Paul Bunyan Playhouse), Bemidji

The Chief Theatre, the primary movie theater in downtown Bemidji, opened in 1937 and operated until 1991. In 1992, it became the home of the Paul Bunyan Playhouse as well as the venue of Bemidji Communty Theatre.

Peter Poull

Moorhead Patrolman Peter Poull

Moorhead Patrolman Peter Poull, undated. Poull's murder at the hands of Thomas Brown led to Brown's execution—the only documented hanging in Clay County—in 1889. From the A. J. Olaughlin Collection, Clay County Archives (Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County, Moorhead).

Thomas Brown

Thomas Brown

Photograph of Thomas Brown taken shortly before his execution, ca. 1889. From the A. J. Olaughlin Collection, Clay County Archives (Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County, Moorhead).

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