{"id":2359,"date":"2024-12-09T14:53:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T20:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2024-12-09T14:53:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T20:53:19","slug":"1717-park-avenue-nw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/?p=2359","title":{"rendered":"1717 Park Avenue NW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">lthough records indicate it was built in 1920, the first listing in a city directory is in 1942 when it was owned by Lawrence and Evelyn Mahr, pipefitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matt and Muriel Decker owned it by 1946. He was a lineman for Beltrami Electric Co-op. His son Earl had the same occupation. They had children: Matthew, Earl, Rosellen, Donald, Verona, Duane, Beverly and Elizabeth \u201cBetty.\u201d Muriel was kitchen helper at Lutheran Hospital for a <a><\/a>time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Betty was in my class at St. Philips grade school. She married Stanley \u201cShorty\u201d Walters on Nov 4, 1955. They lived here in the 1960s. He was a buttermaker for David Park Co.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matt Decker and Muriel lived here until at least 1978 and possibly until his death in 1982. Muriel died March 31, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other residents were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Henry J. Kahlsdorf (1989)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Todd &amp; Stephanie Glen (1995) (1997)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Daniel and Meghan Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lthough records indicate it was built in 1920, the first listing in a city directory is in 1942 when it was owned by Lawrence and [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/?p=2359\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions\/2360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}