
The Forum has had a number of homes. The Forum operated from the Odd Fellows Temple from 1894 to 1910. . The picture to the center right is an early Forum office but I can't find where it was located. The windows look very much like those of the original Odd Fellows Hall but th eentrnce is slightly different.
The Forum building was built in 1926 on the northeast corner of Fifth Street and First Avenue North. It was built by Meinecke and Johnson and cost about $300,000. The third floor was rented to Northwestern Bell Telephone Company was its North Dakota headquarters. The formal opening of the building was January 22, 1927.
Ten years later in 1938, the Forum added two additional floors, as shown in the postcard to the lower right. On the left side of the image, one can see the corner of the Masonic Temple that was razed in 1968. A parking lot is all that remains as a tribute to "urban renewal."
In 1966, the Fargo Forum changed its name to The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead. In 1993, the holding company changed its name to the Forum Communications Company. In 1996, the web-enabled version of the Forum, called IN-FORUM, was established.