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Elk River Downtown Commercial Area <br />Property Description and Significance <br /> <br />Address: 313 Jackson Street <br />PIN: 75-405-0255 <br />SHPO Inventory #: SH-ERC-035 <br />Historic Name: <br />Current Name: Olde Main Eatery and Sweet Shop <br />Builder ! Contractor: <br />Original Owner/Tenant: <br />Architect/Source: <br />Date of Original Construction: ca. 1910 <br />Date of Survey: March 2002 <br />Prepared by: Carole Zellie ! Landscape Research <br />Photo: 3 <br />Property Number: 3 <br /> <br />Description <br /> <br />This two-story brown brick building has a three-bay facade with brick pilasters and a <br />deep corbel course at the parapet. The first story has modern display windows and has <br />been painted white, but the upper story is well conserved. Long rectangular windows <br />have stone sills. Umbrella-style awnings cover some architectural detail. <br /> <br />Significance <br /> <br />This building is locally significant an important survivor of the early twentieth-century <br />commercial block opposite the former Jackson Square. The 1915 Sanborn map shows a <br />grocery at this location. Despite the alterations noted above it retains a good level of <br />historic integrity. <br /> <br />Elk River Historic Contexts and Phase II Downtown Commercial Area Study <br /> 57 <br /> <br /> <br />