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4 <br /> <br />Current Photo – looking north from South Street <br /> <br />ARCHITECTURAL INTEGRITY: The Boulder County Assessor lists the construction date of the home as 1931. That is likely wrong, as Bridget explains in the social history: <br /> <br />However, the County has been frequently been found to be in error with respect to the dates of <br />construction for Louisville properties, and the County has been known to give a remodel date as the date of original construction. In this case, the 1948 County Assessor card states that the <br />house was constructed in 1931, and that it was 37 years old in 1948. However, both of these pieces of information cannot be true. Either the County meant to give 1911 as the year of <br />construction, and to say that the house was 37 years old in 1948, or the County meant to say that the house was constructed in 1931 and it was 17 years old in 1948. <br /> Related to this discussion is the issue of the existence of the store, which was on the south side <br />of the property until at least 1936. Information about when it was torn down could not be loca ted. However, some might say that the house could not have been fully remodeled to look as it does <br />now while the store was still there. <br />All things considered, the most likely scenario appears to be that the original part of the house was constructed in the early 1900s and perhaps as early as 1903, when the Alleras purchased <br />this property for their home, particularly since they were living in Barclay Place in 1904. It appears to have been remodeled at some point. This could have happened in 1931, as the Co unty says, <br />or in a different year. <br />The current wood frame house matches that of the 1948 assessor’s photo, so it is certainly at least that old. The house appears to have changed very little since the 1948