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The following is a close-up of the buildings from this photo. As discussed above, five houses <br />were situated in the area that now contains four houses. 417 County Rd. is shown as the fourth <br />from the left, and second from the right. <br />Following the death of her first husband, Ella Giles Phillips in 1915 married Steve Fotis. He had <br />been born on the island of Crete in Greece in 1890 and had immigrated to the U.S. in the early <br />1900s. According to the book Once a Coal Miner: The Story of Colorado's Northern Field (Pruett <br />Publishing, 1989) by Phyllis Smith, which draws on information provided by Steve Fotis, his <br />original name was Stellionos Fotakis. According to the family, he previously worked in Utah and <br />Wyoming before coming to Louisville. Steve and Ella met when he was working at the Old <br />Centennial Mine just south of Louisville and living in the boarding house there, and recently <br />widowed Ella was working in the boarding house. Together, Steve and Ella had four children <br />who lived to adulthood: Stanley Fotis, born 1916; Dorothy, born 1920; Sylvia, born 1923; and <br />Helen, born 1924. <br />Ella and her family lived at 417 County from about 1915 until 1936, while her father owned it. <br />At the time of the 1920 census, the members of Ella Giles's family living at 417 County consisted <br />of herself, age 25; her second husband, Steve Fotis, 28; her children from her first marriage, <br />