Lot was sold by the Bemidji Townsite Company to Judson J. Cameron for $250 on Nov 29, 1907. The house was built about 1910.
Henry Daniels and his wife Lydia were residents of the home in 1910. He was a partner in the Daniels & Pierce meat market.
Mr. and Mrs. Marc Adams returned from the Twin Cities where they have spent the past week on their honeymoon trip. They will go to housekeeping at once at 809 Minnesota. (June 24, 1912)
A.E. Nelson, residence (1913) The Sanborn insurance map shows the residence with a separate building at the back of the house in January 1914.
The Spanish Influenza killed Albert Streiber, of 809 Minnesota Avenue in Nov 1918. He was only 34 years old. Mr. Streiber had been in the employee of the Crookston Lumber company for the previous twelve years and was a setter. When the mills closed down here, he went to Virginia to work in a mill. He was not feeling well when he left Bemidji, and upon arriving in Virginia and working just one day, his condition became serious and he died. He left a wife Alice and three children at 809 Minnesota avenue.
Anton H. Doehle, bookkeeper for American Cedar Co., wife Mary (1920-21)
F. R. Bost (1922-23)
In 1924, Judson J. Cameron and Emma V. Cameron, of Duluth, transferred the property to A. T. Guisness. (Oct 4, 1924)
Paul Brouillard (1924-25)
F. H. Peet, meat cutter; Mrs. Ila M. Peet, nurse (1927-28)
Floyd and Paul Prawalsky, 809 Minnesota, entertained fourteen friends, the occasion being their 9th and 13th birthday celebrations. (Mar 26, 1928)
Edgar Jahr (1934-35)
A.T. Guisness and Arville Guisness of Beltrami County conveyed the property to George Kootsikas on. Sept 26, 1935. Kootsikas conveyed it to Rinehart Peppel the same day.
Rinehart Peppel and Ana Peppel conveyed this lot to Edith Arnold as an exchange of property on Oct 7, 1938.
Wm E. Arnold and his wife Edith owned the home in 1939-40. He was 82 and retired. He was married to his first wife Nettie Chittenden in 1908 in Michigan, and they came to Beltrami County. She died in 1923. Edith Arnold and William Arnold were married in 1927. They conveyed this lot to DuWane Leslin on Mar 13, 1946.
It was then owned by Bertrum and Ellen Gaetke, who sold it to Roxie Gray on July 11, 1950.
Lyle Wilkey, of Wilkey Sign Service, was a resident in 1953-1956.
The property was then a part of the estate of Roxie Gray in 1957.
Vacant (1963)
Mrs. Georgia Anderson (1964)
1967 – Not Listed in city directory
Edward and Merle McLaurie moved to Bemidji in January 1968 and owned this home. He was a veteran of World War II and a member for the Bemidji VFW. They were married after the war in 1946. Edward died in June 1985. Merle did housekeeping at North Country Regional Hospital and was a volunteer at the Bemidji Senior Citizens center. She continued to live in the home until her death in 1999.
The property changed owners in 2005 and in 2015.