This was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Rood from approximately 1912 to 1927.
Oliver C. and Lewis. E. Rood, were, previous to the establishment of their business in Bemidji, for ten years extensive dry goods merchants at Crookston. They carried an immense line of dry goods, shoes, furnishings and notions of the latest styles and textures, and at prices which range from high priced to nominal. They made a specialty of the Foot-Schulz shoe, a Minnesota product.
The Rood Brothers were warm advocates and active workers in the move to secure for Bemidji the proposed Normal School.
Oliver C. Rood was a commercial traveler for the tobacco industry on the 1920 census. The family then moved to Albert Lea, Minnesota.
Other residents were: 
Chester J. Clements (1934-35); Peder I. Ness (1937-38) (1939-40); Lorayne Angvall (1942); Geo Licke (1946); Harry Wisdom (1951); Judson Martin (1956)
Donald J. Zuelhke lived in the home for at least 25 years as indicated by city directories from 1964 to 1989. He was a member of the faculty at Bemidji State University from 1953 until his retirement in 1986 and was chairman of the business education department.
He and Lorraine Prosa were married July 31, 1949, at Deerfield, Wis. He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, held offices of secretary of the congregation and elder, and was a Sunday school teacher. He was a member of Ralph Gracie American Legion Post 14 and Tri-County VFW Post 1260, both in Bemidji. He enjoyed fishing, golf and playing bridge. Donald Julius Zuehlke died in 1995.
Donald J. Zuelhke was the happy winner of a 23 inch Coronado color television set in a drawing held at the First National Bank. The set was given away by the Bemidji Jaycees with all proceeds of the ticket sale going to support the Beltrami County day Activity Center for mentally retarded children. (Bemidji Pioneer, Dec 27, 1966)