Chinese immigrant entrepreneur Simm Sue opened the Nankin, a “high class Chinese Restaurant” and hotel, on this site in 1922. Hibbing, like many Iron Range towns, had small enclaves of Chinese business owners and laborers. Pan Wen Ping, a University of Minnesota educated engineer employed by the Oliver Iron Mining Company, helped design the Howard business district and many downtown buildings. The Remington Store, a Marshall Fields hardware distributorship, opened here in 1929. C.A. Remington had come from Waconia, Minnesota, in 1899 and worked for the Powers and Simson Logging Company, whose privately owned 28 mile long railroad served many logging camps and a large sawmill west of Hibbing. He founded the C.A. Remington Lumber Company in North Hibbing in 1901 and turned it over to his sons, Winfield A. and Raymond D., in 1920. In 1927 the brothers split the company, forming the Remington Yards Lumber Company and the Remington Stores. Under R.D. Remington, Remington Yards purchased Northern Lumber and Coal Company in 1929, becoming the largest and most complete retail building material, fuel, and farm equipment distributorship on the Iron Range. The Remington Store sold hardware, housewares, paints, and appliances until the early 1960's. W.A. Remington was active in civic affairs, serving as president of the Hibbing Chamber of Commerce, the Isaac Walton League, and other organizations. Later occupants included Team Electronics and Health Home and Hospital Supplies before Carpet Plaza purchased the building in 1991.