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Elk River Downtown Commercial Area <br />Property Description and Significance <br /> <br />Address: 641 Main Street <br />PIN: 75-405-0450 <br />SHPO Inventory #: SH-ERC-044 <br />Historic Name: <br />Current Name: Nextel Cell Phone <br />Builder ! Contractor: <br />Original Owner/Tenant: Sherbume County Farm Bureau <br />Architect/Source: <br />Date-of Original Construction: ca. 19207 <br />Date of Survey: March 2002 <br />Prepared by: Carole Zellie ! Landscape Research <br />Photo: 12 <br />Property Number: 12 <br /> <br />Description <br /> <br />This one-story, gable-roofed frame building is clad in stucco. It has a boomtown facade <br />with a small pediment atop the parapet. The storefront has been modernized but the <br />building retains much of its historic integrity. There is a one-story modem building <br />(construction date unknown) at the rear. <br /> <br />Significance <br /> <br />This building is locally significant as a relatively intact early survivor of Main Street. <br />According to local historians, the Sherbume County Farm Bureau was housed here for a <br />number of years. The 1915 Sanborn map shows a post office in this approximate <br />location. <br /> <br />Elk River Historic Contexts and Phase II Downtown Commercial Area Study <br /> 75 <br /> <br /> <br />