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The Nelson Furniture Company

By Keith J. Doll

Havre/Hill County Historic Preservation Commission

Earlier this year I was touching up and oiling my daughter's antique walnut desk. The desk was well cared for through the years, I can trace it back to two owners before my daughter got it. It has a serpentine front with claw feet. When I looked in the back, the shipping label read: Nelson Furniture Co. Havre, Montana, I did some research on it and this is what I found:

In 1917, two brothers Robert and Curtis Nelson started the Nelson Brothers' Transfer Company.

It was located on Third Avenue in the first building across...

 

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