For immediate release: August 10, 2017
The Louviers Village Club House has been the community center in Louviers since 1917, housing various amenities for locals over the years such as a mercantile, post office, reading room, shooting range and barbershop. Today, the building houses the Louviers branch of Douglas County Libraries (DCL), as well as event space and a two-lane bowling alley. To commemorate the clubhouse’s 100th anniversary, DCL in Louviers is hosting an open house celebration on Saturday, August 26, from 10 a.m.-noon.
The anniversary celebration will honor the storied history of the clubhouse, with an old-fashioned ice cream social, games like horseshoes and ring toss, crafts and more, and guests from various historical societies and groups will be on hand. It will also offer community members a first look at the library’s newly updated space, which includes refinished floors, restored historic furniture, new carpets, and fresh paint.
“Louviers is a community that treasures its history and its library, and DCL is excited to celebrate the building’s 100-year anniversary with them and unveil renovations that will help keep the library going strong,” says Jill Seeland, patron service technician with DCL in Louviers.
The town of Louviers was established in the early 1900s as a DuPont company town with the goal of attracting long-term employees for what was then the nearby DuPont dynamite plant and housing the workers and their families. The clubhouse built in 1917 replaced a smaller clubhouse that was built in 1908 for the recreational use of DuPont employees.
The Louviers Village Club House is on the National Register of Historic Places, and Louviers Village is designated as a Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.
For more information on the clubhouse’s 100-year anniversary celebration hosted by DCL, call 303-791-7323 or visit DCL.org.
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