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Assessor gave 1900 as the date of construction for the Temperance Hall building on the 1948 Assessor card.) However, the Pellillo House at 828 Main that is also part of the Marketplace Building appears (including its old porch) on all three Sanborn maps, the earliest one of which dates to 1893, and on the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville at the Museum. This puts the oldest part of the Marketplace Building as having been constructed in 1893 or earlier. (The date of construction of the Pellillo Store, which according to sources may have been incorporated into the Marketplace Building, is not known precisely but was between 1909 and 1920.) As explained below, Toney W. La Salle extended his store on the north part of Lot 9 into the area of the Pellillo Store on the south part of Lot 10 with in the 1950s to make the La Salle Furniture Co. In the early 1980s, the La Salle Furniture building was combined with the Pellillo House to make the Marketplace Building. Northern % of Lot 9 (820 Main) — Temperance Hall, Jacoe Pool Hall According to the Boulder County Assessor's website, this property that previously had the address of 820 Main Street occupies the northern half of Lot 9, Block 2, in Louisville. The County Assessor's records state that the building was built in 1900. Sanborn maps of 1893 and 1900 show a dwelling on the northern half of Lot 9. By the time of the 1908 Sanborn map, the dwelling is gone and there is a larger building abutting Main Street and labeled "Undertaker." It is not known if the larger building constructed between 1900 and 1908 may have incorporated the earlier dwelling. The 1909 Drumm's Wall Map also shows the larger building. Early Owners of North Half of Lot 9. Louis Nawatny was the founder of Louisville in 1878 and the first owner of the lots in original Louisville. Property records reveal that Louis Nawatny sold all of Lot 9 to John Wilson in 1880. The same year, Wilson divided the lot and sold the two parts to two different people, at which point there is confusion as to which part is which in the records. It becomes clear again in the early 1890s, when the property was traced back to the Pack brothers, Andrew and Jacob. It was sold to Sadie and W.T. Metz in 1903. Temperance Hall — 5 years. W.T. (Tom) Metz had a business at this site from approximately 1903 to 1908. According to a narrative written by his daughter, he had two barber chairs, a pool table, and two card tables in the building. He also fixed bike tires and sold ice cream, soda, candy, and tobacco. Saloons were not permitted on Main Street at the time; his daughter wrote that he said that he would leave the liquor to the saloons on Front Street. The following photos show Temperance Hall, with the building appearing on the far left in the lower photo: 4