This house was built in the 1940s. It was the home of Ray and Dorothy Stephenson until his death in 1983. They owned Steve’s Grill in Bemidji which was located on Beltrami Avenue.
The house was in a pleasant neighborhood near a neighborhood grocery store. There was also a dip in the street at the corner of 11th and Irvine. Youngsters in the neighborhood of 11th Street and Irvine Avenue splashed happily in a miniature lake formed in a low area of the street after a downpour which occurred on Aug 26, 1965. The precipitation was light in most of Bemidji but approached flash-flood proportions in the northern areas.
Photo from 1956.
