Dale and Bumgardner payroll. Adolph Nordquist worked as a laborer on grading the Capitol grounds. He was born in Norway in 1887 and had lived in Minnesota less than a year in 1905. Fellow Norwegian Capitol worker Thomas Thompson lived at this address from 1899 to 1903.

Most of the workers who constructed the Minnesota Capitol belonged to unions. However, it is not clear whether St. Paul laborers were organized during the period when the Capitol was built nor how many laborers or which jobs were represented by a union between 1896 and 1907. So tNordquist's union status is currently unknown.