Historic Preservation Commission Agenda and Packet 2014 12 15

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During the Depression in the 1930s, Sabina Lackner found work as a housekeeper in Denver and lived in Denver while Joseph Lackner continued to live in the corner building that had been known as Germania House. They rented out their home at 630 Front. The following close -up from an aerial photo taken in the 1930s shows the tavern building at 1006 Pine, as well as the Lackner house at 630 Front and the two -story apartment building at the corner of Pine and Front. Prohibition, the Depression, and poor health and the old age of the Lackners were problems for the business at 1006 Pine. Consequently, daughter Marguerite Lackner, who had been deeded the property, sold it in 1937 to Hugo Peltzer. Joseph Lackner died in 1939, and Sabina Lackner passed away in 1959. Peltzer Ownership, 1937 -1966 Hugo Peltzer did not previously have a relationship with Louisville, Colorado, but like Lackner, he was German speaking, having been born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany in 1875. He had immigrated to the United States and raised his family on a farm near La Junta, Colorado. He had four sons who were named Hugo, Ernest, Carl, and William. Each of them would end up having an ownership interest in 1006 Pine at one time or another during the period of 1937 to 1966. Louisville directories and the 1940 federal census show that Hugo Peltzer was living in Louisville by 1940. The directories for 1943 and 1946 similarly show him living on Pine in a location that would suggest that it was the apartment building at Pine and Front. Meanwhile, Ernest Peltzer and his wife, Dorothy, in about 1940 began to operate the building that had been Lackner's saloon, this time as a grocery and meat store. They are also listed in the 1940 census as living in Louisville near Ernest's father, Hugo. Ernest was 34 and Dorothy was 21. According to the son of Ernest and Dorothy Peltzer, his parents tried to make a go of the grocery store as a young couple. It is believed that they lived in living quarters of the building. A major challenge was the fact that the mines in the Louisville area would close every summer due to the poor quality of the coal, and many families relied on store