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Elk River Downtown Commercial Area <br />Property Description and Significance <br /> <br />Address: 304 Jackson Street <br />PIN: 75-405-0245 <br />SHPO Inventory #: SH-ERC-033 <br />Historic Name: Houlton Building <br />Current Name: American National Bank <br />Builder / Contractor: <br />Original Owner/Tenant: <br />ArchitectJSource: Thomas Tudor, Minneapolis, architect for remodeling <br />Date of Original Construction: 1903; 1955 remodeling <br />Date of Survey: March 2002 <br />Prepared by: Carole Zellie / Landscape Research <br />Photo: 1 <br /> <br />Property Number:. 1 <br /> <br />Description <br /> <br />This two-story, cream brick building occupies a prominent corner lot at the northeast <br />corner of Jackson and Main streets. The flat-roofed building has a canted corner still <br />crowned by a parapet inscribed for W.H. Houlton, the original owner. The rectangular <br />windows have prominent brick voussoirs and there are four courses of brick banding <br />under the deep wood cornice. Each window has a rusticated stone sill. <br /> <br />The original roofline of the building had stepped and gabled parapets, and tripartite <br />bays on the east and south elevations. The comer bay appears to have been a later <br />addition, and all the bays were removed by 1955. The 1955 remodeling included the <br />installation of a reddish-brown polished granite facing on the entire first floor, with <br />large display windows replacing the originals. The upper story windows were not <br />altered, but the tripartite comer window was removed. The interior was also remodeled. <br /> <br />Elk River Historic Contexts and Phase Il Downtown Commercial Area Study <br /> 53 <br /> <br /> <br />