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Elk River Commercial District <br />Property Description and Significance <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 fagade survives behind the modernizations. The historic building under the <br />fagade alterations was built in 1911, after a fire that destroyed this section of the <br />block: The Elk River Post Office was among the tenants. (??) The brick storefronts <br />each had a single entry with a display window surmounted by a glazed transom. The <br />flat roof of the block had a simple parapet with a corbelled cornice. <br />