TJ's Total Hair Care/Oveson Brick Building

In 1906, G.A. Oveson, the "popman" from Badger, MN, concluded a deal with the townsite company and became owner of 50 feet on Second Street and 92 feet on Fourth Avenue. He later bought two more lots, giving him 100 feet on Second Street. On one of the lots, facing Second Street, he built a small residence and frame building to house the bottling machinery for his pop factory (site 18 on this tour). In 1911, he finished this three-story brick building on the corner and moved his pop factory into the basement. The upper floors were made into apartments and the ground floor housed many businesses throughout the years. Some of these were a cigar factory operated by C.A. Nightingale and O. Polinski, Gordon Brothers Meats, Peoples Meats, Miss McKenzie's Millinery, Shapiro Furniture, Ketola's Furniture, International Travel Service, and Voyageurs National Park. Oveson's bottling works were eventually sold to B.E. Boldus who later sold to Emil Ratelle. In 1919, Mr. Oveson suffered financial losses and in August 1920 sold the brick building and the two frame buildings to the Moose Lodge for $35,000. The Moose Lodge owned it until about 1925 when it was sold to J.J. Hadler, who later still sold it to the Bruggeman brothers.