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• Radford Plan Company of Chicago.The Colonial Revival <br /> design was built on a large lot overlooking the Elk River.It is <br /> one of several notable houses in the Houlton Addition to Elk <br /> River <br /> In the early twentieth century there were many unbuilt lots <br /> remaining from the original townsite plans of Orono and Elk <br /> River and the general population of Elk River erected a variety <br /> of simple houses near the town center.A simple foursquare <br /> cube was popular,as was the Arts and Crafts bungalow.Its on- <br /> e and one-half story exterior and well-finished interior was <br /> adapted from a great variety of plans advertised at <br /> lumberyards and other publications.Sporadic new <br /> construction occurred until the onset of the Depression in 1930, <br /> and housing construction did not resume until after World <br /> War II. <br /> The development of Manor Place on the Mississippi riverbank <br /> in the 1920s and 1930s included several stylish Period Revival <br /> houses,including one for banker Charles Bade. <br /> After World War II, a variety of one-story ramblers were <br /> constructed on empty lots in central Elk River.The rambler <br /> was often the house type chosen as replacement for older <br /> farmhouses in the township.With the beginnings of non-farm <br /> construction along newly laid out cul-de-sacs off Highway 77 <br /> and 13,the rambler and its variations were built in greater <br /> number. At the same time,many older houses were <br /> • remodeled with aluminum and vinyl siding and stucco and in <br /> some cases lost historic character. In recent years,some <br /> property owners have restored nineteenth and early twentieth <br /> century houses to their historic appearance with good results. <br /> Preservation Planning Summary: <br /> Residential Architecture <br /> Inventoried Resources <br /> Previous inventories include about thirty examples of <br /> nineteenth and early twentieth century residential architecture. <br /> Recommendation(s) <br /> 1.Conduct a complete inventory of residential properties <br /> throughout the city. The survival of early Orono and Elk River <br /> townsite houses should be carefully documented. <br /> • <br /> Elk River Historic Contexts Study Draft 5/2002 <br /> 35 <br />