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Elk River Phase II Inventory Form May 2002 Draft <br /> • <br /> Elk River Commercial District <br /> Property Description and Significance <br /> a\`\�\` '? <br /> ,;;ft-;?:; 'F�c+ \‘,O tZ\\ <br /> zz <br /> Address: 715 Main Street <br /> PIN: Legal: <br /> • SHPO Inventory#: pending <br /> Historic Name: Ardy's on Main <br /> Current Name: <br /> Builder/Contractor: <br /> Original Owner/Tenant: <br /> Architect/Source: <br /> Date of Original Construction: 1911 <br /> Date of Survey: March 2002 <br /> Prepared by: Carole Zellie/Landscape Research <br /> Photo: 19 <br /> Property Number: 19 <br /> Description <br /> This building 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.This <br /> property has been reclad with a shingled roof above a remodeled storefront.Unlike the <br /> others,the red brick parapet of the original building is exposed. <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 /> cornice. <br />