{"id":135221,"date":"2025-12-30T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=135221"},"modified":"2025-11-24T08:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:17:07","slug":"this-day-in-history-december-30-1883","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=135221","title":{"rendered":"This Day in History &#8211; December 30, 1883"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NorthwesternHouse-DakotaHouseBURN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-135226\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NorthwesternHouse-DakotaHouseBURN-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NorthwesternHouse-DakotaHouseBURN-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NorthwesternHouse-DakotaHouseBURN-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NorthwesternHouse-DakotaHouseBURN.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This Day In History, December 30, 1883 \u2013 Northwestern Hotel, McGinnis Block, and Dakota House Hotel fall victim to disastrous early morning fire.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/strong><em>*** from the 125th Anniversary Calendar of Jamestown History ***&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The picture to the left is an early street scene of Jamestown (from the 125th Anniversary Calendar).&nbsp; &nbsp;The building seen here are from left to right:&nbsp; Variety Theater, residences, Northwestern Hotel,&nbsp; Empire Store, Dakota House, and across the street is the James River National Bank.&nbsp; In December&nbsp; of 1883 flames were discovered in the kitchen of the Northwestern Hotel and within&nbsp; three hours it, and the two structures to the west, were reduced to ashes. The James River National Bank, which stood across the street, survived by hanging wet blankets over the windows to extinguish flying sparks. It is the only structure still in existence today in the former bank building which now houses Babbs Coffee Shop and offices on the second floor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*******<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Chronicle.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-135238\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Chronicle-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Chronicle-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Chronicle-260x175.png 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Chronicle.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;At Jamestown Dakota, on December 30, the Northwestern hotel, the Dakota House,the McGinnis block, the North Dakota bank building and several small office buildings were destroyed by fire. the loss was said to be $100,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>*** ( from The Chronicle, The Interests of Insurance, New York &#8211; volume 33 &#8211; Google books)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Day In History, December 30, 1883 \u2013 Northwestern Hotel, McGinnis Block, and Dakota House Hotel fall victim to disastrous early morning fire.&nbsp; &nbsp;*** from the 125th Anniversary Calendar of Jamestown History ***&nbsp;&nbsp; The picture to the left is an early street scene of Jamestown (from the 125th Anniversary Calendar).&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":135226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-thisdayinhistory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135221"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266647,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135221\/revisions\/266647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}