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Elk River Phase II Inventory Form May 2002 Draft <br /> III <br /> Elk River Commercial District <br /> Property Description and Significance <br /> air <br /> irt" k 7 itt-, ,,,, 6, <br /> ,,s <br /> 5 <br /> v''' wow ..,�..........,..... ,. .,'< ^ �% .x«:,',...,Abut .��y <br /> Address: 707 Main Street <br /> PIN: Legal: <br /> SHPO Inventory#: pending <br /> • Historic Name: <br /> Current Name: Cut Hut <br /> Builder/Contractor: <br /> Original Owner/Tenant: <br /> Architect/Source: <br /> Date of Original Construction: ca.1904; rebuilt ca. 1911. <br /> Date of Survey: March 2002 <br /> Prepared by: Carole Zellie/Landscape Research <br /> Photo: 16 <br /> Property Number: 16 <br /> Description <br /> The Cut Hut is one of four stores in a one-story brick block that occupy Lots 3 and 4 of <br /> Block 5.All have been extensively remodeled with false fronts of various types.The Cut <br /> Hut has been reclad with a steeply pitched roof and central dormer above modern <br /> display windows. <br /> Significance <br /> This building has no historic integrity,although it is possible that a good amount of the <br /> original façade survives behind the modernizations. The historic building under the <br /> façade alterations was built in 1911,after an earlier fire that destroyed this section of the <br /> block. The brick storefronts each had a single entry with a display window surmounted <br /> by a glazed transom.The flat roof of the block had a simple parapet with a corbelled <br /> III cornice. <br />