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!t <br />Elk River Commercial District <br />Property Description and Significance <br />Address: 651 Main Street <br />PIN: Legal: <br />SHPO Inventory #: <br />Historic Name: Royal Theatre <br />Current Name: Dick's Main Tap <br />Builder / Contractor: <br />Original Owner/Tenant: <br />Architect/Source: <br />Date of Original Construction: ca.1915 <br />Date of Survey: March 2002 <br />Prepared by: Carole Zellie / Landscape Research <br />Photo: 9 <br />Description <br />The former Royal Theatre is a two-story, brick -faced structure with a flat roof. The <br />building fagade has been reclad in brick, wood, and wood shingles and no original <br />features are visible. The curved parapet of the original roofline remains intact. <br />Significance <br />This building appears on the 1915 Sanborn Map as a "picture theatre. " Also known as <br />the Elk Theatre, the community's first "all talking picture" was shown here. (Sherburne <br />County Star News, 27 Feb. 1930,1. ) The building was electrified in 1916. <br />