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Resource Number: 5BL8039 Temporary Resource Number: NIA Architectural Inventory Form (Page 2 of 5) 21. General Architectural Description The Niehoff/ Austin House is a wood -frame building which is located on the west side of Main Street in downtown Louisville. Traditionally used as a residence, the building has been converted to use as the City of Louisville's Parks and Recreation office. The building has a low concrete foundation (possibly over stone), and its exterior walls are cladded with pale yellow undulated asbestos shingle siding. The intersecting gables roof has red asphalt shingles, and boxed eaves. There are no chimneys. A stained natural brown solid wood door, with one diamond -shaped window, and with an aluminum storm door, opens onto a wood porch whi ch c covers the south half of the facade (east elevation). Wood frame knee walls, and squared post piers, support a shed porch roof. A rear entrance is located on the west elevation, where a painted brown wood -paneled door, with an aluminum storm door, opens onto a concrete sidewalk. Windows on the facade include two 4/1 double -hung sash (ribbon style), which flank the front entry, and a single -light fixed -pane window, flanked by a single 1/1 double -hung sash window. Windows on the secondary elevations include 1/1 double -hung sash, lx1 horizontal sliders, 1/1 double - hung sash, and 2/2 double -hung sash. These windows have painted brown or yellow wood frames and surrounds, and several are not historic. 29.Construction History (include description and dates of major additions, alterations, or demolitions: Built in the 1870s, this house is Louisville's oldest known remaining residence. According to Carolyn Conarroe, author of The Louisville Story, the house was constructed by George Giles, an early builder and one of Louisville's first residents. Boulder County Assessor records list 1872 as the date of construction. A plaque on the building's facade indicates that the house was built in 1878. The 1878 date is probably accurate, as the house was reportedly built for the Niehoff family which came to Louisville in 1877. The building does appear on Louisville's first available Sanborn map, printed in 1893. Boulder County Assessor records indicate that additions to the building's west (rear) elevation predate the 1960s. 23. Landscape or setting special features: This property is located on the west side of Main Street, near the south end of downtown Louisville. Louisville's city administration building is to the north. The Phillips 66 building is to the south. An asphalt parking lot behind the building extends to the alley to the west. 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects nla IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 25. Date of Construction: Estimate Actual 1878 Source of information: Plaque on facade 26. Architect: nia Source of information: nia 27. Builder/ Contractor: George Giles Source of information: Conarroe, Carolyn. The Louisville Story, Louisville: Louisville Times Inc., 1978. 28. Original owner: Charles and Amelia Niehoff Source of information: Conarroe, Carolyn. The Louisville Story, Louisville: Louisville Times Inc., 1978. 30. Original location: Moved Date of move(s) yes no nia