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Resource Number: 5BL8033 , Temporary Resource Number: N/A Architectural Inventory Form (Page 2 of 5) 21. General Architectural Description 23. Landscape or setting special features: The Coors Saloon building is located at the The Coors Saloon building is supported by a concrete foundation, northeast corner of Front and Pine Streets, near with a bulkhead cellar entrance located on the north elevation. the southeast end of downtown Louisville. The The building's exterior walls are painted peach color horizontal building fronts directly onto a wide concrete weatherboard siding, with painted green 1" by 4" corner boards. sidewalk paralleling Front Street to the west, Fishscale and square-cut wood shingles appear in the upper gable while the Burlington Northern Railroad tracks run end on the west elevation (facade). The building is covered by a behind the building to the east. The Louisville cross gabled roof with grey asphalt shingles,and boxed eaves with Post Office is located across the intersection to • returns. Two metal-clad brick chimneys are located on the ridge. the southwest, while the Pine Street Junction is Two gabled dormers are located on the south elevation, and a across Pine Street to the south. single gabled dormer, with a 1/1 double-hung sash window, is located on the west elevation. A large non-original shed-roofed 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects dormer, with four single-light windows, is located on the east n/a elevation. Window patterns include 1/1 double-hung sash, 3/1 double-hung sash (ribbon style), and single-light fixed-panes, all 0 with painted wood frames and surrounds,and wood cornices. Two : ^• :r... .• 2 painted green wood-paneled doors, each with nine upper sash Ij lights, open onto concrete stoops on the sidewalk along Front IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY Street, on the building's west elevation. A painted green wood- paneled door is set within a gabled recessed entryway on the east 25. Date of Construction: elevation. Two painted green wood-paneled doors, with wood Estimate ca. 1890 screen doors, open onto a non-original wood porch located on the Actual north elevation. One other wood-paneled door, with a white metal storm door, opens onto this porch from the east elevation. Source of information: 11 1892 Boulder County Business Directory; Sanborn map, 1893 26. Architect: n/a Source of information: n/a 27. Builder/ Contractor: ill Buckingham and Stokes Source of information: 1892 Boulder County Business Directory lii 28. Original owner: 29.Construction History (include description and dates of major additions, i Adolph Coors Co. ef alterations, or demolitions: Source of information: The original portion of this building was constructed prior to 1892, Boulder County Assessor by Buckingham and Stokes, according to that years Boulder County Business Directory. The 1893 and 1900 Sanborn 30. Original location: yes Insurance Company maps depict a rectangular building here, Moved no while the 1908 Sanborn map depicts an L-shaped building which lii Date of move(s) n/a matches the current building.