On May 9, 1909, the Fargo Forum announced that a new 100 room hotel was to erected by Mrs. Delia Burrell at the corner of Fourth Street and Fifth Avenue North (403-409 4th Street). The architect was A.J. O'Shea who designed the building in a Classical Revival style with light yellow bricks trimmed in red brick and standstone. The wooden porches are supported by Tuscan columns.

The hotel was to be three stories with a basement and have 100 rooms. The Forum article stated that the hotel would have hot and cold running water in each room. The basement was to contain a barber shop, bath rooms and laundry. I have read that the interior has many of the original details extant including patterned stucco walls, oak woodwork, and th eoriginal speaking tubes connecting the rooms with the office.

Mrs. Burrell's husband had died 10-15 years earlier (than 1909) leaving her to support herself and their four or five children. She began sewing and a decade later employed 25 assistants and was the owner of a number of valuable real estate in Fargo.

The hotel was convenient to the Great Northern railroad station. Ninety years later, the building still stands (see above) and is now an apartment building.