Back to Fargo. The hotel seems oddly scaled for human habitation. The people are too small or the hotel's toobig.

It was originally the Martin, but Mr. Martin sold it to Mr. Prescott.

NDSU:

The hotel was the site of a famous Fargo murder. On June 7, 1921, 18-year-old Marie Wick was found brutally assaulted and murdered in her hotel room. The hotel clerk, William Gummer, was accused and found guilty of the crime. Mr. Gummer spent nearly 23 years in prison after his conviction, before he finally was pardoned in 1944.

By 1922 the hotel had been sold to David W. Shields, and became the Shields Hotel. The YWCA took over the building in 1942, and it was torn down in 1977.

I don't remember this building at all. I'll have to take their word for that date.