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