Fargo Glass & Paint Company 1950s

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SINCE 1917

Fargo Glass & Paint Company founder E.J. Schonberg was fond of calling his company "The Friendly House". The son of Swedish immigrants, Schonberg founded The Fargo Plate Glass Company in 1917 with $10,000 of borrowed money and absolutely no experience in the glass business.

                     E.J. Schonberg                                           

The Brand new company announced itself to Fargo in an advertisement placed in The Fargo Forum on February 5, 1917. The ad explained, "We know we'll never get any more than we earn or deserve, and we expect to hustle for all we get!"

In 1919, the company changed its name to the Fargo Glass Company, and in 1922, the name changed once again--this time to the company's current name:Fargo Glass & Paint Company.

Over the years, Fargo Glass & Paint Company has added new products and services to keep pace with an ever-changing marketplace. Still showing the "hustle" from 1917, today Fargo Glass & Paint Company is a distributor of carpeting, windows, doors, siding, floor covering, mirrors, paint, and related accessories. Plus, our Contract Glazing division offers customers the experience, products, and personnel to install everything from high rise curtain walls and storefronts to automatic doors.

With the notion that a company should be base on integrity, intelligence, and imagination, Schonberg's "Friendly House" has grown into the largest business of its kind to be found between Minneapolis and Seattle.