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Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />May 2013 <br />ILZ City?f <br />Louisvilk <br />COLORADO • SINCE 1878 <br />504 W. Spruce Street History <br />Legal Description: formerly described as part of Sec 8 T1S R69W; currently described as <br />Lot 5, Block 1, Spruce Lane. <br />Year of Construction: circa 1908 <br />Summary: This home was a farmhouse built on farm land that has since been <br />developed. <br />Spruce Street and Spruce Lane History <br />Historically, Spruce Street was the route out of Louisville going west towards the <br />Matchless Mine located south of Harper Lake. Small farms lined what would have been <br />a dirt road. <br />In the 1980s, the farm that this house was associated with, along with nearby farms, <br />were platted for purposes of development. It is now part of a subdivision called Spruce <br />Lane. <br />Brimble Family Ownership for Over 40 Years; Date of House Construction <br />This property was owned by members of the Brimble family from 1907 to 1951. The <br />Brimbles came from a coal mining area of Wales. The first Brimble to own it was George <br />Brimble, who purchased the property in 1907 from Charles Wolfer. George Brimble was <br />born in Garnidiffaitn, Monmouthshire, Wales in 1871 and came to the US in 1901. His <br />wife, Elizabeth Smith Brimble, was born in about 1877 in England or Wales and also <br />came to the US in 1901. <br />The 1910 federal census listed George and Elizabeth Brimble as living in the correct <br />location and surrounded by the right neighbors for them to be living at 504 W. Spruce <br />Street, which George owned. George's occupation was stated as coal miner, but it was <br />also noted in the census records that he and Elizabeth resided on a farm. <br />