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I 12 City of <br />Om Louisville <br />COLORADO - SINCE 1878 <br />641 Main Street History <br />Legal Description: E 87 1/2 FT OF S1/2 Lot 21 & E 87 1/2 FT Lot 22, Block 5, Original Louisville <br />Year of Construction: circa 1880 <br />Architect/Builder: Unknown <br />Previous addresses used to refer to this property: 142 2nd Street, 140 2nd Street, 132 Main, 136 Main, <br />130 Main (under Louisville's old address system that ended in the late 1930s). Today, different parts of <br />the building bear the addresses of 637 Main, 639 Main, and 641 Main, but the County's official address <br />for the entire building is 641 Main. <br />Summary: This is one of the oldest structures in Louisville. The original sections appear on the 1893 <br />Sanborn fire insurance map for Louisville. It was the home of Thomas and Rebecca Thirlaway and their <br />family for over thirty years, beginning in 1884. Beginning in 1917, it was then the home and office for <br />four consecutive Louisville doctors at this important intersection that many would consider to be the <br />main intersection, or center, of Louisville. <br />The building has three obvious sections, which will be referred to as the north, middle, and south <br />sections. <br />Earliest Ownership <br />This property is part of Original Louisville that was platted and recorded with the County in 1878. <br />Records show that George Steuble purchased the property in 1879. An early map for Louisville from <br />1880-81 shows George Steuble (1827-1915) to be living on this exact corner. Also, George Steuble and <br />his wife, Elizabeth, and children are shown on the 1880 census for Louisville as living in the general <br />vicinity of what is now 641 Main Street, although the census did not give exact locations. According to a <br />Steuble relative, the very oldest part of the house was the middle section, first floor, and it was <br />constructed by George Steuble. George Steuble was a native of the German- speaking part of <br />Switzerland. <br />The chain of ownership could not be connected from Steuble to the person known to have been the <br />owner in 1883, Christopher Rosenbaum. (This is a common occurrence with early Boulder County <br />1 <br />