1931-1954

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This time during the history of the house is referred to as 'The Piano Years' in honor of Nella Hoel's teaching career.  Others continued giving those lessons while living in the house.  Nella inspired future piano teachers and muscians with the gift of music.

Nella Hoel was born the year the foundation of the house was laid.  She lived in the house until her parents passed away leaving the house to Nella.

"Miss Hoel" --a grown up title for a young girl barely in her teens--  allowed Nella the authority she needed when she began teaching piano at the house, around the year 1905.  For a quarter of a century, piano lessons kept Miss Hoel busy in the parlor where her piano stands today.

At age 40, Nella married Andrew Berg, age 42, on August 19, 1931.  He was a Lincoln automobile dealer from Minneota, MN.  A year had passed since the death of the bride's parents.  This marriage was for each partner a late one, and no children were born to the Bergs.  Nella's "children" were her many piano students who came to the Hoel House over the years for weekly lessons. 

Although the house transferred to Nella upon her parents deaths in 1930, Nella subsequently married in 1931, and moved to Minneapolis in 1932.  She rented the house as apartments to different families until 1954.  Nella died at age 86 while living in Minneapolis. 

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