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Elk River Phase II Inventory Form May 2002 Draft <br /> 410 Elk River Commercial District <br /> Property Description and Significance <br /> # I <br /> ''" ,. <br /> a <br /> d' it 4FS;> <br /> k* <br /> • <br /> i <br /> 3 <br /> 7 $ � <br /> 1 " d +if <br /> Address: 701 Main Street <br /> PIN: Legal: <br /> SHPO Inventory#:pending <br /> • Historic Name: Romdenne and Co. <br /> Current Name: Sunshine Depot <br /> Builder/Contractor: <br /> Original Owner/Tenant: Joseph Romdenne <br /> Architect/Source: <br /> Date of Original Construction: 1898 <br /> Date of Survey: March 2002 <br /> Prepared by: Carole Zellie/Landscape Research <br /> Photo: 13 <br /> Property Number: 13 <br /> Description <br /> This two-story flat roofed store building is clad in cream brick. The original facade is <br /> completely covered by anew brick and wood façade,capped by a wood shingled <br /> mansard roof.It is not known how much of the original facade might survive behind the <br /> modernization.The original three-bay design had a central entry flanked by large <br /> display windows and an upper story with three windows.The side chimney evident <br /> today is seen on early photographs. <br /> Significance <br /> This building has lost historic integrity,although it is possible that a good amount of the <br /> original facade survives behind the modernizations. One of the earliest commercial <br /> buildings in the town center that developed at Main and Jackson streets and the first <br /> built after the fire of 1898, it was owned by Joseph Romdenne. His was one of several <br /> • <br /> general stores in Elk River at the turn of the century.A livery stable is shown on this site <br /> on the 1894 Sanborn Map. <br />