Stop 13: deLendrecie’s Building – 620 Main Avenue (National Register)
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This elegant five-story, grey, pressed brick and brownstone structure was built by the St. Louis Pressed Brick Co. It features red mortar butter joints and red sandstone trim from Portage Entre, Michigan, and is topped with classically inspired pressed metal cornice and brick and sandstone parapet.
The building is closely associated with Eugene and Onesine deLendrecie, pioneer merchants and founders of one of North Dakota’s premier department stores. It was listed in the National Register in 1979.
The first two floors were designed by McMillan and Tenbusch and built in 1894. The top three floors were designed by Fargo architect Andrew O’Shea and added in 1904.
The deLendrecie’s Department Store relocated to West Acres Shopping Center in 1972, leaving the building vacant. Three years later, after an interior renovation that created apartments and small retail spaces, the building reopened as “Block Six of the Original Townsite.”