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Resource Number: 5BL 11291
<br /> Temporary Resource Number: 157508434003
<br /> an occurrence that often indicated that a building was being constructed and the lumber company was taking a
<br /> mortgage on the property to secure the loan to pay for the construction. This was in 1896, and the deed of trust was
<br /> for both Lots 6 and 7, which indicates that they were both owned by Milson Phipps by 1896.
<br /> In 1903, Milson Phipps conveyed Lots 6 and 7 to George Poydock Sr.
<br /> In 1898, Charles Welch conveyed twenty-nine different lots in Jefferson Place to a Denver lawyer, Harper Orahood,
<br /> apparently for Orahood to resell. The lots 6, 7 and 8 for this parcel were among these properties. Orahood conveyed
<br /> just Lot 8 of 617 Jefferson to George Poydock Sr. by a deed that was recorded in 1907. So by 1907, the three lots
<br /> were under the common ownership of the Poydock family, but the house is believed to have been built earlier.
<br /> Boulder County gives 1905 as the year of construction for this property. However, the dates given by Boulder County
<br /> have sometimes been found to be in error with respect to historic buildings in Louisville, and as noted above, the
<br /> evidence suggests that the house may have been originally constructed earlier than 1905. The 1909 Drumm's Wall
<br /> Map shows a house on Lots 6 and 7, and these lots were under common ownership by 1896, the same year in which
<br /> the owner of the lots gave a deed of trust to a lumber company, suggesting house construction.
<br /> The property in question is outside of the boundaries of the Sanborn Maps that were done for Louisville in 1893,
<br /> 1900, and 1908 (they focused on the downtown business district and La Farge Avenue only).
<br /> This home was first occupied by George Poydock Sr. and Catherine Poydock and their children, then by their son
<br /> George Poydock Jr. and Mary DiGiacomo Poydock. It is currently in the name of their son Thomas Poydock and
<br /> Mary Poydock. The Poydock name is sometimes given in the records as Pydock, Poydok, Poydak, Poydack, Podik,
<br /> and Boudak.
<br /> The Poydock family came from Czechoslovakia. George immigrated to the US in 1892, and Catherine and their
<br /> oldest child, George Jr., followed in 1896 to the US and all three of them came to Louisville in 1896 as well. George
<br /> Poydock Sr. first appears in a Louisville directory for the year 1896. He was a coal miner, as his sons became as
<br /> well. The family was living at 617 Jefferson by the time of the 1910 census. Their family at the time consisted of
<br /> George, Catherine, and their children George, Mary, John, Mike, and Anthony. They are also shown in this location
<br /> at the time of the 1920 census, under the name "Boudak." At that time, children George, John, Mike, and Anthony
<br /> were still living in this location with George Sr. and Catherine. At the time of the 1930 census, only George Sr. and
<br /> Catherine were living at 617 Jefferson. They were both 63 at the time and George Sr. was still working as a coal
<br /> miner.
<br /> Louisville directories also document the long period of residency by the Poydock family at 617 Jefferson.
<br /> Catherine Poydock died in 1931 and George Poydock Sr. died in 1946. Their son, Anthony, became the owner and
<br /> resident of the house with his wife, Mary DiGiacomo. Anthony had been born in 1905. He and Mary married in 1933.
<br /> Louisville directories show that he worked at Dow Chemical in the 1950s. He died in 1983.
<br /> Mary DiGiacomo Poydock was born in Louisville in 1913 to an Italian farming family who had a farm just northeast of
<br /> downtown Louisville. Her parents were Robert and Carmen DiGiacomo. She died in 2005.
<br /> Anthony's brother, George Poydock Jr., and his wife, Garnet, owned and resided very close by at 617 La Farge in
<br /> Jefferson Place. More information can be found about their side of the family in the report for that address.
<br /> Today, the house at 617 Jefferson is still owned by members of the Poydock family.
<br /> Other addresses by which 617 Jefferson was known under Louisville's old address system were 126 Jefferson and
<br /> 128 Jefferson under Louisville's old address system, and 623 Jefferson in the 1946 directory.
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