Pictured below right is Ferdinand Luger, founder of Luger's Furniture. He was born in Austria 1831. In the early 1860's he moved to Wabasha, Minnesota and started a successful furniture factory with his brother. He traveled the territory as a furniture salesman. He started his furniture store in Fargo in 1877. He died in 1910.

The original (1877) Luger Furniture store was located on the northeast corner of Broadway and NP Avenue. In the spring of 1882, Luger built the building shown on the right at 716 Front Street [Main Avenue].He also built a large brick warehouse on Eighth Street. That building was taken over by the Dacotah Drug Company when the Luger's moved again in 1898 to a new building at 12-14 Broadway between the NP tracks and NP Avenue. That, store, seen in the 1930's postcard enlargement below right, was the home of Luger's until 1966, when it was purchased by the adjacent Herbst Department Store.

The Luger furniture Company also owned its own factory in St. Paul, managed, I beleive, by Ferdinand's brother, Albert.