Stop 24: Powers Hotel – 400 Broadway (Contributing)
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This is a handsome Classical Revival style building whose first three floors were built in 1914-15. The owner and builder was the Powers Construction Company, one of Fargo’s largest volume builders and contractors. Business boomed around the First World War and by 1919, the top two floors were added. The alteration included removing the original parapet and inserting the name block between the third and fourth floors where it now sits.
In 1927, the Powers Hotel purchased the champion steer from the state fair, then held in Fargo, and exhibited it in the lobby.