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Louisville Historical Museum Department of Library & Museum Services City of Louisville, Colorado October 2012 City of Om Louisville COLORADO - SINCE 1878 520 Grant Ave. History Legal Description: Lots 22-23 & S % Lot 24, Block 3, Acme Place Year of Construction: circa 1903 Summary: This home was associated with several families, most recently the Thompson family for over sixty years. Development of the Acme Place Subdivision The Acme Place subdivision was the fourth addition to Original Louisville. John Connell platted it and recorded it with Boulder County in 1893. The area of Acme Place can best be described as covering what are now the 500 blocks of Lincoln, Grant, Jefferson, and La Farge Avenues. Acme Place was developed due to its proximity to the Acme Mine that was started in 1888 near what is now the corner of Roosevelt and Hutchinson. With the success of the Acme Mine, John Connell developed Acme Place in 1893, and this action extended Louisville's boundaries farther to the west than it had ever been. Boulder County Property records indicate that the land that Connell used to establish Acme Place had been acquired directly from the Acme Coal Mining Company. Date of Construction The Boulder County website gives the date of construction for this house as 1903, while the Boulder County Assessor Card completed in 1948, under the box for "age," has a question mark and the information that it was an "old house moved in" and "old house moved onto foundation." It is not known when the house was relocated. A previous resident of the house informed the Historical Museum that there was information indicating that the house was relocated, possibly from Superior.