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Elk River Commercial District <br />Property Description and Significance <br />Address: 647-649 Main Street (west unit) <br />PIN: Legal: <br />SHPO Inventory #: pending <br />Historic Name: Elk River Star News (?) <br />Current Name: Haberdashery <br />Builder / Contractor: <br />Original Owner/Tenant: Charles Babcock <br />Architect/Source: <br />Date of Original Construction: 1904 <br />Date of Survey: March 2002 <br />Prepared by: Carole Zellie / Landscape Research <br />Photo: 10 <br />Property Number: 10 <br />This one- story, two -unit store building has a flat roof. The red brick building has two <br />store units divided by a brick pier.The storefronts have been modernized and clad in <br />permastone, and the transom filled with glass block. The simple parapet with a corbel <br />course is intact. <br />Significance <br />641-47 Main Street is typical of Elk River's smaller commercial buildings. One or both of <br />the units housed the Sherburne County Star News offices. <br />