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Elk River Downtown Commercial Area <br />Property Description and Significance <br /> <br />Address: 651 Main Street <br />PIN: 75-405-0430 <br /> <br />· SHPO Inventory #: SH-ERC-041 <br /> Historic Name: Royal Theatre <br /> Current Name: Dick's Main Tap <br /> Builder ! Contractor:. -' <br /> Original Owner/Tenant: <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: 9 <br />Property Number. 9 <br /> <br />Description <br /> <br />The former Royal Theatre is a two-story, brick-faced structure with a flat roof. The <br />building facade has been re-clad in brick, wood, and wood shingles and no original <br />features are visible. A curved parapet, possibly from the original roofline, remains intact. <br /> <br />Significance <br /> <br />This building appears on the 1915 Sanborn Map as a "picture theatre." Also known as <br />the Elk Theatre, the community's first "all talking picture" was shoWn here. (Sherburne <br />County Star News, 27 Feb. 1930, 1.) The building was electrified in 1916. At present the <br />exterior does not retain historic integrity. <br /> <br />Elk River Historic Contexts and Phase II Downtown Commercial Area Study <br /> 69 <br /> <br /> <br />