Stop 20: Loretta Block – 208–212 Broadway (Contributing)
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The Loretta Block was planned by Peter Elliott, and was named after his youngest daughter. Elliott was a businessman of note who owned several downtown hotels and was also an early Fargo mayor. The building was originally purchased by J.B. Bergstrom and George R. Crowe when their furniture store ran out of space. They moved into the building in 1909 and built an extension in 1916. The north one-third of the Loretta Block, which is now covered over at the storefront level, was built in 1912. These Classical Commercial style buildings were built in two stages because of business entanglements.