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Elk River Downtown Commercial Area <br />Property Description and Significance <br /> <br />Address: 701 Main Street <br />PIN: 75-405-0555 <br />SHPO Inventory #: SH-ERC-045 <br />Historic Name: Romdenne and Co. <br />Current Name: Sunshine Depot <br />Builder ! Contractor:' <br />Original Owner/Tenant: Joseph Romdenne <br />Architect/Source: <br />Date of Original Construction: 1898 <br />Date of Survey: March 2002 <br />Prepared by: Carole Zellie ! Landscape Research <br />Photo: 13 <br />Property Number: 13 <br /> <br />Description <br /> <br />This two-story, flat-roofed store building is clad in cream brick. The original facade is <br />completely covered by a new brick and wood facade, capped by a wood shingled <br />mansard roof. It is not known how much of the original facade might survive' behind the <br />modernization. The original three-bay design had a central entry flanked by large <br />display windows and an upper story with three windows. The side chimney evident <br />today is seen on early photographs. <br /> <br />Significance <br /> <br />The Romdenne and Co. building has lost nearly all of its historic integrity because of <br />facade modernizations. One of the earliest commercial buildings in the town center <br />that developed at Main and Jackson streets, and one of the first built after the fire of <br />1898, it was owned by Joseph Romdenne. Romdenne and Co. was one of several <br />general a d drug stores in Elk River at the turn of the century. A livery stable is shown <br />on this site on the 1894 Sanborn Map prior to the construction of the present building. <br /> <br />Elk River Historic Contexts and Phase II Dozontown Com~nercial Area Study <br /> <br /> <br />