The Red River House. This is a small hotel, but none the less neat and clean. It is located onDeMers avenue, north of Third street. Mr. Joseph Dennis is the proprietor, a gentleman who does his best to please his guests, and succeeds so well that his house is always full. He sets a good, substantial, table, has neat, clean bed-rooms, and charges more moderate prices than some of the other hotels. (brochure on the history of Grand Forks, microfilm, personal collection, donated to Chester Fritz Library Department of Special Collections, Page 46)
Red River, Jos. Dennis, prop., 116 DeMers Ave. (Grand Forks and North Dakota Manual for 1885, William L. Dudley, Plaindealer Book and Job Rooms, 1885, Page 118)