HAMM’S BREWING COMPANY DEPOT:

From 1880 until 1915, East Grand Forks looked to its liquor business for the bulk of city revenue. The Hamm’s Brewing Company of St. Paul opened an East Grand Forks cold-storage plant in 1890. They soon outgrew it and relocated to 1897 to DeMers and Fourth Street NW. In 1907, they expanded the building. In 1909 it was one of six beer depots on DeMers Avenue.

The $24,000 building was the largest and only brick depot. It housed offices and the capacity to hold twenty carloads of beer.

The Depot is the only building on the National Register of Historic Places located in East Grand Forks.

National Archives Catalog. National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program Records. Minnesota SP Hamm Brewing Company Beer Depot, Ref. 84001651.