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Resource Number: 5BL7980
<br />Temporary Resource Number: NWA Architectural Inventory Form
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<br />V. HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS
<br />31. Original use(s): Single Dwelling
<br />32. intermediate use(s): Single Dwelling
<br />33. Current use(s): Single Dwelling
<br />34. Site type(s): Residence
<br />35. Historical Background
<br />This house has was built between 1880 and 1893, and has served as a single-family dwelling since that time
<br />Although the home's original owner is unknown, there is a good chance that a member of the family was employes
<br />at an area coal mine. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, Louisville's economy was based, to a great extent
<br />on the area's coal industry. As a result, the livelihoods of most of the community's inhabitants were directly, o:
<br />indirectly, dependent on coal. In 1928, Boulder County Directories list Anthony and Filomena (Felma) Ross as the
<br />residents at this address. In other years, in the 1910s, and later in the 1930s, the Ross family is listed at 74E
<br />LaFarge Avenue, and at 722 LaFarge Avenue.
<br />Throughout its history, this property was most closely associated with the Dionigi family. The Dionigis came tc
<br />Louisville circa 1910, and by 1916, they were living at 512 LaFarge Avenue (Louisville's addresses have changes
<br />multiple times. This location would probably have been somewhere in what is today the 900 block of LaFarge.
<br />Members of the Dionigi family, in 1916, included Joseph (a miner), his wife, Jennie, John (a meat cutter at L
<br />McCorkles), Atory [sp.?] (a miner), Peter (a student), and Josephine, Katie, and Mary. By 1928, John Dionigi we:
<br />employed as a meat cutter at Mary Colacci's grocery store on Main Street. John, and his wife Elizabeth, moves
<br />into this house in the early 1930s, and it remained in the Dionigi family until the early 1990s. In the late 1930s
<br />John was employed by the Louisville - Lafayette Coal Company, and during the 1940s and 1950s, he was a Justice
<br />of the Peace, and served as the Louisville Town Clerk. In more recent years, the property has been owned by Man
<br />Ann Colacci and Nancy Lee Green. (For information on the Colacci family, please refer to the Architecture
<br />Inventory Form for the Blue Parrot Cafe at 640 Main Street (5BL8037).)
<br />36. Sources of Information
<br />(Boulder County) "Real Estate Appraisal Card - Urban Master", on file at the Boulder Carnegie Library.
<br />Conarroe, Carolyn. The Louisville Story, Louisville: Louisville Times Inc., 1978.
<br />Polk'sBoulder County Directory [generally published annually], Denver, Kansas City,
<br />and Company Publishers.
<br />Polk's Longmont City Directory, [generally published annually], Denver, Kansas City,
<br />and Company, Publishers, 1966 - 1997.
<br />Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, dated August 1893, November 1900, and August 1908.
<br />and Salt Lake City: R.L. Poll
<br />and Salt Lake City: R.L. Poll
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