Restoration of the Louviers Village Club and Bowling AlleySHF Project Numbers 00-HA-045, 01-02-064, 03-01-060, 04-02-016, and 06-02-025
Dynamite production began at Louviers in 1908 and continued until the early 1980s when plant operations ceased. The ownership of the Village Club was transferred to Douglas County, and the building currently houses a branch library. It can be rented for special events and the historic 2-lane bowling alley is still used by local leagues. The Club still functions as the social and recreational center for the residents of this small community. Following the recommendations in an SHF-funded 2000 Historic Structure Assessment, Douglas County has received four additional grants totally almost $650,000 to complete the restoration of both the Village Club Building and the Bowling Alley. |
The Louviers Village Club was built in 1917 by the E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company as a social and recreational facility for the employees who lived in du Pont’s Company Town of Louviers. The town, named after the ancestral home in France of the du Pont family, was established in 1906 to house workers who produced explosives for the expanding and thriving mining business in Colorado. The Village Club was the center of community life housing an assembly hall, bowling alley, store, barbershop, theater, post office, and reading room.