{"id":2364,"date":"2024-12-09T14:56:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T20:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2024-12-09T14:56:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T20:56:47","slug":"909-america-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/?p=2364","title":{"rendered":"909 America Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Built in 1913. It was for sale in November 1917: Seven-room house, first class condition, all modern except heat. Call at 909 America Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the time of the 1920 census, John Bye was the owner. He was a laborer at the box factory, wife Christine, daughters Selma, Jane, Ellen. His brother Andrew also lived with them and worked at the box factory. John and Andrew born in Norway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a><\/a>next owners were Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Peterson. (1921-1925) Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Peterson and family, 909 America avenue , have as their house guests, Miss Mabel Johnson of Stanley, Wis., and Miss Anna Perault of Cass Lake, Miss Johnson leaving for her home today. (Aug 16, 1922)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Louis V. Larson and his wife Bertha lived here from 1927 &#8211; 1942. He was a scaler for lumber company in 1930; salesman for the Bemidji Distributing Company in 1942.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Herman and Inga Pearson were long time residents here. They were living here by 1953. He was a painter. He died in 1974. Inga Pearson lived here through 1989. She had married Herman Pearson on December 3, 1938. They had three children: Judy, Roger and Jerry. Her jobs included Sales Clerk at S&amp;L; Laundry Service at Birch Hall at BSC and Sales Associate at the Style Center women&#8217;s clothing store until her retirement. For 17 years, she thoroughly enjoyed being a volunteer Foster Grandparent at the Kindergarten Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kurt Nelson (1990-1993)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gwen Bitz (2003)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roxanne Kirk &amp; T.J. Kirk (2011) (2013)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The house was listed for sale in 2013: Tons of character and charm with this 2+ bedroom 1.5 bath home that is very well maintained. Updated: windows, furnace, siding, etc. Fenced yard, finished garage, central air. Main floor laundry. Den could be used as a bedroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Built in 1913. It was for sale in November 1917: Seven-room house, first class condition, all modern except heat. Call at 909 America Ave. At [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/?p=2364\">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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-street"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364","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=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bemidjihistory.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}