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Resource Number: 5BL8011 Temporary Resource Number: N/A Architectural Inventory Form (Page 3 of 5) V. HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS 31. Original use(s): Commerce and Trade / Department Store 32. Intermediate use(s): Commerce and Trade / Financial Institution 33. Current use(s): Commerce and Trade / Specialty Store 34. Site type(s): Commercial Building 35. Historical Background Sanborn insurance maps indicate that the south half of this building was built prior to 1893, and that for many years it housed a general store. From 1916 (and perhaps several years earlier), until the early 1960s, a clothing business known as the Hub Store was located here. Frank A. Mangus was the manager of the Hub Store in the 1910s and 1920s. By 1930, the Hub Store had been taken over by O.C. Anderson and George A. Webster. This business later became known as Webster's Hub Store, and operated here into the 1960s. The current retail tenant at 800 Main Street, Exquisite Enterprises Inc., has been here since 1966. This building is best known, though, as the location of the First Bank of Louisville. Also known as the Louisville Bank, and as the First State Bank, this institution was in business at what is now 804 Main Street from shortly after the turn of the twentieth century, until the 1950s. Some of the bank's officials over the years included L.E. Chenault, J.R. Thirlaway, J.E. Park, W.L. Armstrong, Roy N. Austin, W.L. Tanner, H.H. Hoyt, Lawton W. McCorkle, and G. Russell Henning. Henning, a bank president who was also a mortician, served as Mayor of Louisville from 1926 to 1930. After the bank closed in the 1950s, this part of the building was used by the Public Service Company of Colorado until circa 1990. Wildwood Music, specializing in the sale of guitars, opened in this part of the building at 804 Main Street, in the early 1990s. The north half of this building was built within a few years following 1908. 36. Sources of Information (Boulder County) "Real Estate Appraisal Card - Urban Master", on file at the Boulder Carnegie Library. Conarroe, Carolyn. The Louisville Story, Louisville: Louisville Times Inc., 1978. Polk'sBoulder County Directory [generally published annually], Denver, Kansas City, and and Company Publishers. Polk'sLongmont City Directory, [generally published annually], Denver, Kansas City, and and Company, Publishers, 1966 - 1997. Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, dated August 1893, November 1900, and August 1908. Salt Lake City: R.L. Polk Salt Lake City: R.L. Polk