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Louisville Historical Museum Department of Library & Museum Services City of Louisville, Colorado August 2008 ILIZ City0f Louisville COLORADO • SINCE 1878 800 & 804 Main Street, Louisville, Colorado According to the Boulder County Assessor's website, the property at 800 and 804 Main Street is owned by Mesple LLC and occupies "Lot 7 less min Blk 2" in Louisville. This property is notable for having been a business site in the earliest years of Louisville's existence; the site of over 75 years of ownership by members of one family, the Williams family of Louisville; the location of a damaging fire in 1926; the site of the First State Bank for 38 years; the site of Public Service for about the same number of years; and the site of the Hub Store, a well-known clothing store, for about 40 years. Ownership; Businesses on the Site This site is part of Original Louisville platted and registered by Louis Nawatny in 1878. Nawatny sold the property in 1882 to Thomas Allenton and John Harris. Records show that Thomas Allenton operated a "meat market and saloon" business on the site, likely out of a building on the corner, in the early 1880s. Jacob C. Williams acquired the property in 1895, which was the start of ownership and/or control by members of the Williams Family that was to last over 75 years. Jacob Williams was a coal mine operator. His 1929 obituary stated that as the superintendent of the Northern Coal & Coke Company, and then of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, he supervised the operations of numerous mines in Boulder and Weld Counties. Following Jacob Williams' death in 1929, his wife, Jane Williams, owned the property until her death in 1958. Their son, Wilbur Williams, then inherited the property and owned it until 1968, when he transferred it to a company that he is believed to have controlled, the Louisville Company. The Louisville Company in 1972 transferred it to Exquisite Enterprises. Research indicates that historically, the site typically had two businesses sitting side by side, as opposed to one business occupying the entire lot. 1