About

The State Wide Real Estate Building at 500 and 504 Shelden Avenue in downtown Houghton dates to about 1870. It is one of the oldest buildings in downtown Houghton. It started life being built by the Goldfarb Brothers. They operated a liquor store on the ground level. The 2nd and 3rd floors where a leather shoe manufacturing business.

At various points in time there where fires in the building. At one point the third floor burned and the building height was lowered to make it easier to reconstruct. For a long time in the mid 1900s the main floor was Central Foods, a well known small grocery store run by a woman named Marie. She ruled over the store from a loft toward the back of the main floor.

It has since been the home of State Wide Real Estate of Houghton since about 1999.