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• 1917. is now called Jackson Square and is a <br /> from 191 This space o ca ed J d<so Sq <br /> parking lot. <br /> The park was framed by a block of masonry buildings on <br /> Jackson Street,most erected around 1898 and then rebuilt after <br /> another fire in 1903. Another fire in 1914 destroyed four stores <br /> on Main Street including the building housing the post office. <br /> The earliest remaining downtown building appears to be the <br /> J.H.Romdenne Drugstore at the corner of Jackson and Main <br /> (now the Sunshine Depot).However,the exterior of the two- <br /> story brick structure has been completely modernized. <br /> m7=44'"I'r'°'et':: i!vaigtt:c':-'-,'S.-s;',,P-...„1„,„'4›,‘,.--' , 4 <br /> 3 <br /> __ __ ,. .,, ..„. ,.........,, ,,,.,,,. ,,...,.,.. <br /> _..,,,, : , ._.,. .*a ivi- 8_ — --4110.1.10-7 v-.:,: ,-, <br /> The Houlton BIock and Jackson <br /> �: �2._,.. ,.__. � � w,_ Street,ca.1910.Photo:MHS. <br /> 0 Between ca.1898 and 1920,two blocks of Main Street parallel <br /> to the river developed with a modest mix of one and two-story <br /> brick buildings housing a variety of businesses.After about <br /> 1914,Main Street also attracted a new generation of <br /> automotive dealers and service garages,gradually replacing <br /> liveries and blacksmiths.The Elk Theatre,Sherburne County <br /> Farm Bureau,and furniture and general stores were among <br /> early tenants on Main Street.A variety of automotive buildings <br /> and a new theater(1947)were among additions between ca. <br /> 1920 and 1950. <br /> Like periodic fires,highway construction remade downtown <br /> Elk River. The construction of the Jefferson Highway by the <br /> early 1920s,and the Highway 10 bypass in the 1940s <br /> demolished a number of downtown landmarks.The present <br /> alignment of Highway 10 also encroached on the northern end <br /> of Jackson Street. <br /> 10 <br /> Elk River Historic Contexts and Phase II Downtown Commercial Area Study <br /> 29 <br />