This is a single family home built in 2012. The property, however, has some interesting older history. Sally Darst purchased Lots 17 18, 19, & 20, Block 8, Third Addition for $650 on Aug 2, 1910. She must have lived a quiet life, because there is no mention of her in the newspapers except for rejection of an application she made for an abatement of assessed valuation on her property in February 1922. Was she perhaps related to Eldon Darst of the Red Cap Dairy and the Fleet Store? I haven’t found a tie yet.
A second house was built on the property about 1940. Mrs. Gina Grothe, resident of this address passed away on March 3, 1944, after an illness of about five years. Her husband Andrew and she had moved from Northern to town in 1943.
Mrs. Josephine (Knutson) Carter was a longtime resident of a house on this lot. She and her husband Cass Lake Carter moved here from 1018 Bemidji Avenue about 1950. Her husband was an Equipment Operator for the R.E.A. They were married on October 22, 1929 and lived for a time at 1111 Lake Blvd. He was reputed by his family to be the first white child born in Cass Lake, and consequently named Cass Lake Carter. Cass Carter died on Mar 5, 1952. She was a saleswoman in a retail store in 1940, and later was bookkeeper for the Lutheran Hospital for many years. She died as the result of asphyxiation, carbon monoxide and smoke inhalation as occupant of burning house at 1216 Bemidji Avenue on Nov 9, 1981.
Edwin M. Knutson (1982)
Todd Grimes (1989)
A new home was built here in 2012 and owned by Dwayne Weiher.