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Resource Number: 5BL8041 Temporary Resource Number: NIA Architectural Inventory Form (Page 2 of 5) 21. General Architectural Description This is an early twentieth century wood frame commercial building, with a false front facade. Fronting onto Main Street to the east, the building features a rectangular plan, and is supported by a concrete or stone foundation. The roof is a moderately - pitched front gable, with grey asphalt shingles and boxed eaves. A shed -roofed addition, from the 1960s or 1970s, has been built onto the west (rear) elevation. The building's facade features two large 2-light storefront display windows, with red brick rowlock slipsills. The windows flank a glass -in -wood -frame entry door, with a transom light. The kick plate area, below the windows, are faced with red brick, and brick columns are located at either end of the facade. The upper facade wall features horizontal weatherboard siding, with painted black corner boards, and with a dentil course beneath a projecting cornice. A wood sign board projects from the upper facade wall, advertising The druids Arms. Small neon signs in the storefront display windows advertise Guinness Draught, Bass, Boddingtons, and Caffrey's Irish Ale. A flat -roofed walk-in refrigerator/ freezer is located behind the building to the west. Also behind the building, is a small storage shed, with a wood timbers on grade foundation, particle board walls, and a low-pitched gable roof. 29.Construction History (include description and dates of major additions, alterations, or demolitions: Boulder County Assessor records list 1902 as this building's date of construction. Sanborn insurance maps corroborate that the building was constructed sometime between 1900 and 1908. 23. Landscape or setting special features: This building is located on the west side of Main Street, in downtown Louisville. The building fronts directly onto a wide concrete sidewalk which parallels Main Street. The State Mercantile Building is adjacent to the south. A concrete parking lot, behind the building to the west, extends to the alley. 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects Walk-in Refrigerator, Storage Shed IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 25. Date of Construction: Estimate Actual 1902 Source of information: Boulder County Assessor records; Sanborn insurance maps 26. Architect: nja Source of information: nia 27. Builder/ Contractor: unknown Source of information: nia 28. Original owner: Charles Wolfer Source of information: Mehls, Steven F., and Mehls, Carol Drake. "Colorado Historical Society, Historic Building Inventory Record", (809 Main Street), July 28, 1985. 30. Original location: Moved Date of move(s) yes no nia