This street was a popular area for families because of the location of the North School on 15th Street and the construction of the Bemidji High School in 1921. According to real estate records, the current house was built in 1947 and replaced one which was built in the 1920s.
Samuel D. Myerson (1924-25) Wife Lillian. Sam was born in Russia. He was the proprietor of the Northern Fur and Hide Company.
Frank Arnold (1927-28)
William Lyons and Mary Lyons timber buyer; renter (1930 census)
Ira H. Batchelder and wife Wanda moved to this address early in the 1930s. They were listed here with their children Ira J., Ron, and Joy at the time of the 1940 census. Ira H. was listed on the census as partner and proprietor of a woolen goods manufacturing and retail firm – the Bemidji Woolen Mills which is over 100 years old. He reported that he was working 54 hours a week on average. He was living here at the time of the 1942 draft registration and was listed here in Who’s Who in Minnesota in 1945. Ira J. said that one of his tasks as a youngster was to walk from here to the Woolen Mills before school each morning to stoke the boilers and to walk from the high school to the mills again after school to help as well.
Frank Himmelman (1946)
A new house was built in 1947
Roland J Baxter (1951) (1953)
David A. Jeffrey (1956)
Clifford and Jean Erickson lived here. (1960) (1967) -Cliff Erickson received his education in Bemidji and except for seven years in Alaska, lived in the Bemidji area most of his life. He operated Cliff’s place for many years. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, a Shriner, member of the Eagles and Elks lodges. He moved to the cities in 1967. Jean was a homemaker, an active member of the Bemidji Does, and the Order of the Eastern Star. Three sons Don, Jim, and Dale – guessing they graduated from BHS in the late 1950s and maybe 1960s. Jim married Sharon Gean Hofmaster at Bemidji in 1962.
Brian Engelking (1970)
Vacant (1978) (1982)
The property changed hands at least three times since 2000. Sold in 2002, 2006, and 2010.