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Elk River Downtown Commercial Area <br />Property Description and Significance <br /> <br />Address: 309 Jackson Street <br />PIN: 75-405-0250 <br />SHPO Inventory #: SH-ERC-034 <br />Historic Name: Johnson Clothing Store <br />Current Name: Antiques Downtown <br />Builder / Contractor: <br />Original Owner/Tenant: <br />Architect/Source: <br />Date of Original Construction: ca. 1911 <br />Date of Survey: March 2002 <br />Prepared by: Carole Zellie ! LandscapeResearch <br />Photo: 2 <br />Property Number: 2 <br /> <br />Description <br /> <br />The two-story brick building on this parcel is clad in metal, with no upper story <br />windows. The first level has modem display windows. The historic building behind the <br />screen may have been damaged in a fire in 1914. Historic photos show an earlier <br />building with arched upper-story windows, and another view (ca. 1917) with large <br />rectangular upper-story display windows. <br /> <br />Significance <br /> <br />This building is locally sig-nificant as an important survivor of an early twentieth- <br />century commercial block. However, it is not known how much historic fabric survives <br />behind the metal screen. <br /> <br />A building shown on this site on the1899 Sanborn Map is labeled the Opera House. This <br />building was apparently destroyed in a fire and rebuilt by 1911. At one time the present <br />building housed the Johnson Clothing Store. <br /> <br />Elk River Historic Contexts and Phase II Downtown Commercial Area Study <br /> 55 <br /> <br /> <br />