DATE OF CONSTRUCTION, FIRST BRICK BUILDING, and FIRST COURTHOUSE LOCATION (conflicting information):
1. 1018 Pearl built in 1864, first brick building, first courthouse.
Source is the Paddock caption typed beneath Photo 1: "The First Court House in Boulder, Colo. It was located between 10th and 11th street on the south side of Pearl Street and was built by F.A. Squires, William Pound, and Anthony Arnett and presented by them to the County October 10th, 1864. In 1882, the County built a new court house in the public square where the present one now stands. The old one was then sold to the late L.P. Schneider, who rented it to Colvin and Teal, and was used as an assay office for many years.... The frame part on the west was built over what was known as the yard for the prisoners to exercise in. The top of the wall was set with broken bottles and glass to keep the prisoners from climbing over. Later the city needed a jail, and as this place was all equipped for such a purpose, it was bought from Schneider by the city and used for Police Headquarters until it burned January 19, 1924."
2. 12th and Pearl built pre-1865, first brick building, no mention of courthouse.
Source is the caption typed on a photo with handwritten date of 1865 (208-5-1): "This may be the earliest picture of Boulder. It is dated 1865... Two story brick showing on Pearl Street was the first of that material in Boulder and was constructed by A.J. Macky. It is now owned by Ralph B. Potter."
3. 12th and Pearl built in 1866, first brick building, never a courthouse.
Source is a Herald article 16 Jan. 1884, reprinted in Sandford Gladden's Boulder Firsts: "The demolition of Mr. Macky's part of the Dabney & Macky block to make room for a handsome new block... It was the first brick business house erected in the hamlet of Boulder. On the corner [Gladden note: NE corner of Broadway and Pearl] stood an old blacksmith shop, the property of Chas. Dabney. The largest hall in the place at that time, used also for a court room, stood where Rittmaster's store now stands and was years afterwards moved by A.L. Welch two blocks and a half east, being now owned by Levi Lovelock. [Gladden note: This was a two-story frame building put up by A.J. Macky on the northeast corner of what is now 14th and Pearl Streets....] Macky prevailed upon Dabney to tear down the blacksmith shop and erect the present building of which soon only Dabney's part will remain. On the 3d day of September 1866, brick and stone were first hauled to the place and work began immediately... by Thanksgiving Day of that year, the building was completed...."
4. 1018 Pearl built in 1867, first brick building, may or may not have been first courthouse.
Source is a Camera article 12 Oct. 1925, reprinted in Sandford Gladden's Early Days of Boulder: "Boulder's First Court House and Jail Razed to Ground. Boulder's first courthouse and for years its police headquarters and city jail passed out of existence. [Gladden note: The first courthouse was a frame building erected by A.J. Macky in 1860 near the NE corner of 14th and Pearl.] The walls of the building, thought by many to be the oldest brick structure in the city, were torn down by city employees this morning.... The building which has stood at 1018 Pearl for more than sixty years was built under the direction of George Squires and Anthony Arnett, pioneers of Boulder, and was given by them to the city as a courthouse. [Gladden note: WRONG. The building was erected by Jonathan A. Tourtellot, Frederick A. Squires, and Anthony Arnett in 1867.]... Lou Schneider, an old-time resident of Boulder, became owner of the building when the courthouse"
The site at 1018 Pearl became the Crouch Motor Used Car lot, near 1000 Pearl.