417 Beltrami Ave.
This lot was one of the few lots on the block still unsold during World War I. Charles Battles purchased the lot from the Townsite Company in 1919.
The Consumers Wholesale Supply Co., Howard R. Jones, Mgr., was at this address in 1927-28. It was next occupied by George T. Baker, jewler in 1934-35.
The L. A. Hermanson Co. store was located at 417 Beltrami Avenue. Then Justus Larson of the Larson Co. took over operation of the L. A. Hermanson Co. store on May 1, 1937. The company sold electric refrigerators, radios, Skelgas, washing machines, musical instruments, sheet music, phonograph records and all connected lines.
Irvine Lee opened his shoe store in Bemidji in 1930, and he was at this location in 1941-42. Next, it was the home of Horn’s Café.
Mrs. Clara Allandslee purchased the restaurant from Edwin Horn in September 1947. Mrs. Allansdlee had formerly operated Clara’s Café on Fourth Street between Beltrami and Minnesota avenues. She sold that establishment to Tommy Calhoun in October 1946 and spent a year away from the restaurant business.
It then became Mack’s Shack for a time. The Mack Shack carried cigarettes, cigars and tobacco and sold some of the best greasy hamburgers in town. The location became Steve’s Café operated by Raymond Stephenson in 1953. [photo from 1956]
Steve’s Café until it moved across the street and was located at 422 Beltrami in 1964. 
Nothing listed in city directory for 417 Beltrami in 1967 or 1974