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Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />June 2012 <br />L <br />cityof <br />Louisville <br />COLORADO • SINCE 1878 <br />724 & 728 Main Street History <br />Legal Description: Lot 10, Block 3, Original Louisville <br />Year of Construction: circa 1880-1890 (see discussion below) <br />Architect/Builder: unknown <br />Previous addresses used to refer to this property (under Louisville's old address system): <br />For 724 Main: 217 Main; 219 Main; 221 Main; 225 Main; also 714 Main (on the 1948 County <br />Assessor card) <br />For 728 Main: 221 Main; 223 Main; 225 Main; 229 Main; also 718 Main (on the 1948 County <br />Assessor card) <br />The two buildings did not both have the address of 221 or 225 Main at the same time. <br />Summary: <br />Evidence shows that the buildings were constructed in circa 1880-1890. <br />There is evidence for one to come to the conclusion either that this is one building or that it is two <br />buildings. The two structures, which have coexisted since the late 1800s, have never been owned <br />separately, but have always had the same owner. Although this property has two addresses, the Boulder <br />County Assessor's Office views this as one property with one address (724 Main) and one improvement <br />on it, as shown in the County's online property records (but the County Assessor did prepare an <br />Assessor card separately for each building in 1948). The two buildings have always had two different <br />addresses starting with the 1916 directory in which numerical addresses first appear for Louisville. The <br />historical survey done in 2000 treated it as one property, with one architectural form for both buildings, <br />but described it as being "historically comprised of two separate buildings." <br />For about thirty-five years of Louisville history, the building at 728 Main was the site of the Twin Light <br />Tavern, an extremely popular Main Street bar with food, a dance floor, a juke box, and sometimes live <br />music that had its heyday during World War II and the period afterwards, while the building at 724 Main <br />1 <br />