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• Elk River Downtown Commercial Area <br /> Property Description and Significance <br /> 1 y3 <br /> ;� of s .. t <br /> Address: 701 Main Street <br /> PIN: 75-405-0555 <br /> SHPO Inventory#:SH-ERC-045 <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 a new brick and wood façade,capped by a wood shingled <br /> mansard roof.It is not known how much of the original façade 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 /> The Romdenne and Co.building has lost nearly all of its historic integrity because of <br /> facade modernizations.One of the earliest commercial buildings in the town center <br /> that developed at Main and Jackson streets,and one of the first built after the fire of <br /> 1898, it was owned by Joseph Romdenne.Romdenne and Co. was one of several <br /> general a d drug stores in Elk River at the turn of the century.A livery stable is shown <br /> • on this site on the 1894 Sanborn Map prior to the construction of the present building. <br /> Elk River Historic Contexts and Phase II Downtown Commercial Area Study <br /> 77 <br />