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Louisville Historical Museum Department of Library & Museum Services City of Louisville, Colorado October 2016 IL: City C) Louisville COLORADO • SINCE 1878 301 East St. History Legal Description: The current description is Lot 2, Clementine Subdivision. Historically, this property had a description common to other area properties in unincorporated Boulder County: part of Sec 8, T1S, R69W. The entire parcel was also known as Tract 707 prior to being subdivided in 1987. Year of Construction: circa 1907 Summary: This was the home of members of the Gelsomino and Annunciata Romano family for 80 years. Romano Family Ownership, 1907-1987 (80 years); Discussion of Date of Construction Peter F. Murphy owned this property and surrounding property. Boulder County property records indicate that the property may have come from the Union Pacific Coal Company, but there is a lack of specificity with respect to the legal description. The deeds show that Peter F. Murphy of Louisville purchased property from Union Pacific in August 1905. He then sold this parcel to George and Annunciata Romano in 1907. The 1948 Boulder County Assessor card for this property did not give a date of construction. The Boulder County website gives the date of construction as 1900. Boulder County has been found to have sometimes been incorrect with respect to the dates of construction of Louisville buildings, so other evidence is looked to. In this case, the house does appear on the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville, so it was constructed by 1909. There is no evidence that there were owners or residents prior to when the Romano family purchased the property in about 1907. For these reasons, and in the absence of other evidence, the estimated date of construction is presumed to be "circa 1907." Gelsomino "George" Romano (1865-1929) and Annunciata Romano (1876-1969) were both born in Italy and they married in Italy. Their first child, Louise, was born in Italy in 1892. The 1