This commercial building was built by Adolph Fine in 1955.
David Hersk ran his Gaity Recording Studio at 6217 Lake Street in the early 1960s.
In 1964 Hersk sold his studio to Don Peterson and Darold “Arv” Arvidson, who started Dove. This was strictly a recording studio, not a record label. Don ran the business side and Arv handled the technical side, building much of the equipment himself. The Novas recorded “The Crusher” there. Another band that recorded there was the Surfers (although Robb Henry of the Surfers remembers recording in a small house south of Minnetonka Blvd. between Texas and Louisiana in 1966-67.) The facility proved to be too small, and in early 1965 Dove was moved to 9358 James Ave. So. in Bloomington.
In 2012 the building was occupied by dental offices.