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that Bond organized the Boulder Electric Light Company, assisted with the organization of the Boulder <br />National Bank and was its vice president, had extensive mining interests, and was an irrigation farmer <br />who built ditches in the area. The following photo from the Carnegie Branch Library for Local History <br />shows Isaac Bond in what is believed to have been the 1880s. He died in 1924. <br />The 1893 and 1900 Sanborn insurance maps show a different building on this corner that predated the <br />current structure. It was a dwelling, as indicated by the letter "D," and was of wood frame construction. <br />The following image is an excerpt from the 1893 map (with the 1900 looking almost identical with <br />respect to this southeast corner of Front and Spruce) that shows the earlier structure on Lot 1 on the <br />corner: <br />Given Isaac Bond's residence in Boulder and extensive property investments throughout Boulder <br />County, it is believed that his ownership of this lot likely represented an investment. Also lending <br />support to the theory that this property wasn't a personal place of residence or business for Bond is the <br />fact that at the time that he sold the lot to Eusebio Di Francia in January 1904, Isaac Bond was living in <br />San Bernardino County, California, and signed the warranty deed from that location. <br />Di Francia /Fenolia /Zarini Related Family Ownership, 1904 - 1945 <br />Related Italian Catholic families by the names of Di Francia and Fenolia (including Christine Zarini, who <br />was a Fenolia) owned this building for over forty years. <br />2 <br />