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Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />April 2016 <br />LCityr <br />Louisville <br />COLORADO • SINCE 1878 <br />421 County Road, Louisville, Colorado <br />Legal Description: North % of Lot 1, Block 3, Murphy Place <br />Year of Construction: circa 1908-1909 <br />Summary: This was the home of the Genaro Madonna and Aldovina Martella Madonna family <br />from 1919 until 1983. <br />History of Murphy Place Subdivision <br />Peter F. Murphy platted the subdivision of Murphy Place in 1907. He did so as President of the <br />Louisville Realty & Securities Company. <br />Purchase by H.W. Hastings; Date of Construction <br />In 1908, H.W. Hastings purchased all of Lot 1, Block 3, Murphy Place from the Louisville Realty <br />& Securities Company. He sold the north half of the lot to the Romano family, which is now 421 <br />County Rd., the same year. (By a deed recorded in 1910, he sold the south half, which now <br />makes up 417 County Rd., to B. Franklin Giles.) <br />The County Assessor's records state that the house was built in 1910. Boulder County has <br />sometimes been in error with respect to the date of construction of Louisville buildings, so <br />additional evidence is looked to. In this case, there is a house indicated as being in this location <br />on the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville at the Historical Museum, which would support an <br />earlier construction date than 1910. Also, the property was sold to a residential owner in 1908 <br />and we know that they lived in a house on the property. For these reasons, the estimated date <br />of construction is circa 1908-1909. <br />The following excerpt from the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map shows the house at 421 County as the <br />fifth house from the bottom in the row of houses on County Rd., shown on the right. The small <br />structure on the very north end of the row of structures has not been identified. The map <br />shows how the Acme Mine railroad spur extended from the Acme Mine, shown on the left side <br />of the image and located at Roosevelt & Hutchinson, towards the east and northeast in the <br />1 <br />