Victor W. Jansen came to North Bend in 1897 and joined C.L. Kelly Hardware as a sheet metal worker, a trade he had learned as a teenager in Denmark. He established Jansen Hardware in 1907, adding plumbing and hardware to his sheet metal work. In 1916 he built this building and moved into the space occupied today by the North Bend Eagle. Vic's son Cecil worked in the store after school, and he and his wife Dorothy took over after Vic died in 1942. Cecil died in 1969, but Dorothy continued running the family store until she sold it in 1973 to Rick and Jan Hobza, who changed the name to Hobza Hardware. The Eagle moved in after the 2009 downtown fire.