Historic Preservation Commission Agenda and Packet 2014 12 15

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This earlier saloon was located behind the Lackner home on Lot 2 at what is today 630 Front Street. The following photo shows the Lackner family (Joseph, Joseph Jr., Sabina, and baby Mary) in front of their home at 630 Front in circa 1893; the building that is believed to have been the earlier Lackner saloon can be seen to the right and behind the house. Joseph Lackner owned the south section of Lot 1 and all of Lot 2 of Block C by the year 1887, when the deed for his purchase was recorded with the County. He further acquired the northern section of Lot 3. In August 1903, the deed for his purchase of the remainder of Lot 1 was recorded with the County. It was this purchase of property, which extended his holdings all the way to Pine Street, that made it possible for him to build a new saloon at what is now 1006 Pine. Although Boulder County gives the date of construction of 1006 Pine as 1900, this is believed to have been a rounded off figure that was an estimate. The building is identified in multiple sources as having been constructed by Herman H. Fischer, another German /Austrian businessman in Louisville. According to the Fischer family, this building was constructed in 1904. This fits with it having to have been constructed between 1900 (when it was not yet shown on Lot 1 on the Sanborn map) and 1908 (when it was shown on Lot 1 on the Sanborn map). It also fits with Lackner's purchase of the northern section of Lot 1 in about 1903. The following excerpt from the 1908 Sanborn map shows the presence of the Lackner saloon on Lot 1 (now 1006 Pine) and shows the absence of the earlier Lackner saloon that had been on Lot 2, behind the Lackner home: