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Resource Number: 5BL7972 Temporary Resource Number: NIA Architectural Inventory Form (Page 3 of 5) V. HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS 31. Original use(s): Single Dwelling 32. Intermediate use(s):Single Dwelling 33. Current use(s): Single Dwelling 34. Site type(s): Residence 35. Historical Background After the Original Town of Louisville was platted in 1878, lots along Front Street were among the first developed in the new community. Initially known as First Street, this area evolved as Louisville's Main Street in the years prior to the turn of the twentieth century. In the early 1900s, Second Street, located a block to the west, became the community's official Main Street, while Front Street(the original Main Street) gave way to residences and secondary businesses. The 1893 Sanborn insurance map for Louisville shows that the first house on this lot was built prior to 1893. From the 1920s (and perhaps earlier)into the 1980s, this property was associated with the Largo family. Amelia(Emelia) Largo is listed in Boulder County directories as the widow of Anthony Largo (who had been a miner) beginning in the mid-1910s. Beginning in the 1920s, the family is documented as living at this address. In addition to Amelia, other members of the Largo family included Helen N., and Tony A. Helen was employed as the bookkeeper at Lewton W. McCorkle's grocery store in the mid-1930s, and in 1940, she was Louisville's Deputy City Clerk. Interestingly, the 1951 Boulder County directory lists her occupation as miner, employed at the Boulder Valley Mine. Tony A. Largo (perhaps Anthony Jr.) was also a miner. He was employed at the Louisville - Lafayette Coal Company in the 1930s. In 1940, he held the position of Fire Boss at the Hi-Way Mine. Tony A. Largo owned and lived here into the 1980s. In the early 1950s he continued to work as a miner, but by the end of that decade he had become a construction worker, as area coal mines gradually shut down. 1 36. Sources of Information (Boulder County) "Real Estate Appraisal Card - Urban Master", on file at the Boulder Carnegie Library. Conarroe, Carolyn. The Louisville Story, Louisville: Louisville Times Inc., 1978. Polk's Boulder County Directory[generally published annually], Denver, Kansas City, and Salt Lake City: R.L. Polk and Company Publishers. Polk's Longmont City Directory, [generally published annually], Denver, Kansas City, and Salt Lake City: R.L. Polk and Company, Publishers, 1966 - 1997. Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, dated August 1893, November 1900, and August 1908.