The Fargo Mercantile Company was a wholesale grocer, established in 1895. The company's first store was located on NP Avenue and later became the Orpheum Theater. The earliest owners were J.C. Hunter (Secretary and Treasurer) and Frank Langer of Casselton, Thomas A. Quirk of Buffalo (President), and C.O. Follett of Fargo.C.H. Reineke is listed as Vice-president.

The building shown in the 1909 real photograph postcard right was located on the northeast corner of Broadway and Fourth Avenue North (401 Broadway). Note the wagon and team of horses loading at the side door.

I don't know when the building was torn down. The Fargo Merchantile was still in business in 1943. By 1951 it was gone. Since the 1970's, the building has been replaced by a Goodyear Tire and Service Center.

The small building on the lower right of the photograph is the J.A. Chesley Lumber and Coal Co. at 511 Fourth Avenue North.

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