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Elk River Commercial District <br />Property Description and Significance <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 fagade is <br />completely covered by a new brick and wood fagade, capped by a wood shingled <br />mansard roof. It is not known how much of the original fagade 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 fagade 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 />