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Elk River Downtown Commercial Area <br />Property Description and Significance <br /> <br />Address: Southeast corner, Jackson and Main Streets <br />PIN: 75-405-0320 <br />SHPO Inventory #: SH-ERC-038 <br />Historic Name: Jackson Square <br />Current Name: Parking Lot <br />Builder / Contractor:. <br />Original Owner/Tenant: City of Elk River <br />Architect/Source: <br />Date of Original Construction: ca. 1900 <br />Date of Survey: March 2002 <br />Prepared by: Carole Zellie ! Landscape Research <br />Photo: 6 <br />Property Number: 6 <br /> <br />Description <br /> <br />Jackson Square was created when the townsite of Elk River was platted in 1865, but most <br />the area around it was not built up until after 1900. The square occupied the northern <br />edge of the wedge-shaped block; the Blanchett Hotel was at the southern edge. The <br />space was not improved until the early twentieth century; photographs of 1917 show <br />that the square had a few large mature trees but it does not appear to have been formally <br />landscaped. A small wooden pavilion fronted on Main Street. The square is now a <br />surface parking lot. <br /> <br />Significance <br /> <br />Jackson Square was locally significant as the central public space in Elk River and the <br />focus of many community celebrations and events. These functions ceased when it was <br />converted to a parking lot. <br /> <br />Elk River Historic Contexts and Phase II Downtown Commercial Area Study <br /> 63 <br /> <br /> <br />