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Elk River Phase II Inventory Form May 2002 Draft <br /> IIIElk River Commercial District <br /> Property Description and Significance <br /> 4, i <br /> Lick Pi ' <br /> ,,, <br /> , . <br /> y <br /> ` 3 <br /> a <br /> Address: 651 Main Street <br /> PIN: Legal: <br /> S SHPO Inventory#:pending <br /> Historic Name: Royal Theatre <br /> Current Name: Dick's Main Tap <br /> Builder/Contractor: <br /> Original Owner/Tenant: <br /> Architect/Source: <br /> Date of Original Construction: ca.1915 <br /> Date of Survey: March 2002 <br /> Prepared by:Carole Zellie/Landscape Research <br /> Photo: 9 <br /> Property Number:9 <br /> Description <br /> The former Royal Theatre is a two-story,brick-faced structure with a flat roof.The <br /> building façade has been reclad in brick,wood,and wood shingles and no original <br /> features are visible.The curved parapet of the original roofline remains intact. <br /> Significance <br /> This building appears on the 1915 Sanborn Map as a "picture theatre. " Also known as <br /> the Elk Theatre,the community's first"all talking picture"was shown here. (Sherburne <br /> County Star News,27 Feb. 1930, 1.)The building was electrified in 1916. <br /> III <br />