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916 Main Street Historic Structure Assessment <br />Hartronft Associates, pc October 10, 2023 <br />Conarroe Family Ownership, 1971-1997; Operation of Louisville Times Newspaper <br />Raymond and Nadine Caranci in 1971 conveyed the ownership of the property to Percy <br />Conarroe. Conarroe's Louisville Times weekly newspaper was operated out of the building at <br />916 Main during the Conarroes' period of ownership. <br />Before purchasing 916 Main, Percy and Carolyn Conarroe ran the Louisville <br />Times newspaper out of 912 Main. That was the location of the paper since before they moved <br />to Louisville and purchased the business in 1965. The photo below shows them in front of 912 <br />Main in 1966. <br />2.0.13 Percy and Carolyn Conarroe - 1971 <br />Describing the move, the Louisville Times (The Louisville Times August 19, 1971 — Colorado <br />Historic Newspapers Collection ) stated that equipment such as "the Intertype job press and <br />other heavy equipment" were going to have to be lifted out of the old building and moved to <br />the new building. The Conarroes announced: <br />After 17 years in the same building-, the Louisville Times is moving this weekend to the <br />building next door (north). To say we like to move would be pretty far from the truth, <br />especially when the Intertype machine weighs 3,000 lbs., the job press 2,000 and "no <br />end" of type cases, stone imposing surfaces, etc.... In the meantime if this week's <br />Times looks like it has been thrown together, it was. If you have ever moved a print <br />shop, we're sure you will know what we mean when we say "things are in a mess." But <br />one thing, we will have more room in our new location and we are contemplating <br />installing some "up-to-date" equipment in order to bring you a "better" newspaper. We <br />can't make any promises on this, however, until we decide whether our pocketbook can <br />stand the shock. We hope to have more to say on this if and when we can bring about <br />some changes that we are now considering. We are toying with the idea of going <br />"offset." But after 25 years of the letterpress routine, we are just a bit hesitant to throw <br />out the old and bring in the new. We are one of the few weekly papers in the region still <br />printing by letterpress, the old-fashioned way. There may be such a thing that we will <br />have to go modern whether we really want to or not. We'll see." (The Louisville Times <br />August 19, 1971 — Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection) <br />Page 17 of 51 <br />