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Elk River Downtown Commercial Area <br />Property Description and Significance <br /> <br />Address: 323 Jackson Street <br />PIN: 75-405-0265 <br />SHPO Inventory #: SH-ERC-037 <br />Historic Name: Kemper Drug <br />Current Name: Kemper Drug <br />Builder ! Contractor:. <br />Original Owner/Tenant: <br />Architect!Source: <br />Date of Original Construction: 1961 <br />Date of Survey: March 2002 <br />Prepared by: Carole Zellie / Landscape Research <br />Photo: 5 ~ <br />Property Number: 5 <br /> <br />Description <br /> <br />Kemper Drug is a one-story stone-clad building with a flat roof and metal coping at the <br />parapet. The first story is filled with modem display windows sheltered by a brushed <br />aluminum marquee. The corner neon sign appears to date from the original <br />construction. <br /> <br />Significance <br /> <br />Kemper Drug is locally significant as a mid-twentieth century addition to the downtown <br />commercial district. The building has a good deal of original integrity. It replaced a two- <br />story brick building destroyed in a fire. <br /> <br />Elk River Historic Contexts and Phase H Downtozon Commercial Area Stud.,/ <br /> 61 <br /> <br /> <br />