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Elk River Downtown Commercial Area <br />Property Description and Sibmificance <br /> <br />Address: 315 Jackson Street <br />PIN: 75-405-0260 <br />SHPO Inventory #: SH-ERC-036 <br />Historic Name: Bank of Elk River <br />Current Name: Carlson Wagon lit Travel <br />Builder ! Contractor. A. Moorman Company, St. Paul <br />Original Owner/Tenant: Bank of Elk River <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: 4 <br />Property Number: 4 <br /> <br />Description <br /> <br />The Bank of Elk River is a two- story cream brick building with a flat roof. The first story <br />shows the original two-bay division of the fagade. The square pilasters with simple <br />capitals flank bays filled with modem display windows. Above a deep cornice trimmed <br />with a rusticated brownstone band, the upper story has six arched windows surrounded <br />by a featureless cream brick fagade of relatively recent date. <br /> <br />Several historic photos show the building before its upper story modernization and <br />could be of great use in restoration. <br /> <br />Significance <br /> <br />This building is locally significant as the second location of the Bank of Elk River, the <br />first bank in Sherbume County. Established in 1885 with W.L. Babcock, W. H. Houlton <br />and Henry Castle as officers, the first bank was located on the north side of the railroad <br /> <br />Elk River Historic Contexts and Phase II Downtown Commercial Area Study <br /> 59 <br /> <br /> <br />