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Elk River Downtown Commercial Area <br />Property Description and Significance <br /> <br />Address: 657 Main Street <br />PIN: 75-405-0410 <br />SHPO Inventory #: SH-ERC-039 <br />Historic Name: Elk River Theatre; Nu-Elk Theatre (ca. 1970s) <br />Current Name: Cinema Professional Building <br />Builder ! Contractor: <br />Original Owner/Tenant: <br />Architect/Source: <br />Date of Original Construction: 1947 <br />Date of Survey: March 2002 <br />Prepared by: Carole Zellie /Landscape Research <br />Photo: 7 <br />Property Number:. 7 <br /> <br />Description: <br /> <br />This two-story building has a flat roof and is constructed of concrete block. The faCade is <br />covered in brick, wood paneling, and wood shingles. The original facade was reportedly <br />stucco-clad and appears to have had a central marquee that is boxed in by the <br />modernizations. A painted mural covers the north side of the building. <br /> <br />Significance <br />One of two theatres that stood on this block, this building was one of the last additions <br />· to Main Street before 1950. A Guide to the Architecture of Minnesota (University of <br />Milmesota Press, 1977) noted that the building was "styled in the Streamline Moderne <br />with white stucco and glass brick comers (p. 160). At present the exterior does not retain <br />historic integrity. <br /> <br />Elk River Historic Contexts and Phase H Downtown Commercial Area Study <br /> 65 <br /> <br /> <br />