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Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />July 2015 <br />LCityof <br />Louisville <br />COLORADO • SINCE 1878 <br />509 La Farge Ave. History <br />Legal Description: Lots 14 & 15, Block 2, Acme Place Addition <br />Year of Construction: circa 1910 (see discussion below) <br />Summary: The house at 509 La Farge was relocated from nearby Superior and was the home of <br />Slovak, French, and other families. It was featured in the book Lost Superior: Remembering the <br />Architectural Heritage of a Colorado Coal Mining Town by the Superior Historical Commission, <br />published in 2004. <br />The Louisville Area's History of Relocated Buildings <br />Residents of the Louisville area have long engaged in the practice of relocating buildings, <br />particularly small, wood frame houses. This practice was described in an article in The Louisville <br />Historian, viewable here: <br />http://www.louisville-library.org/Portals/1/pdf/Louisville%20Historian/2011-4Fall.pdf . <br />History of the House in Superior, Colorado; Discussion of Date of Construction <br />The house at 509 La Farge was originally located at 107 W. William St. in original Superior, <br />Colorado, according to the book Lost Superior. The legal description of that property was Lot 9, <br />Block B. No photos showing the house in its original location could be located for this report. <br />William Hake filed the plat of Superior with Boulder County in 1895. He died in 1900 and his <br />son, Charles Hake, sold off lots that William Hake had owned. Charles Hake sold Lot 9, Block B in <br />1901 to Joe (or Jioseppe) Quero (or Querio). Quero had previously, in 1899, acquired Lot 8 from <br />Hake. The 1900 census shows him to be living in Superior in a house that he owned, presumably <br />on Lot 8. According to the census records, Joe was born in Italy and was age 31; his wife, <br />Theresia, was born in Italy and was age 26; and their children, Domenica and John, were 4 and <br />2 months. Joe worked as a coal miner. <br />When Joe Quero bought Lot 9, it was presumably to supplement his property on Lot 8. <br />However, by 1902, he and Theresia had decided to sell Lot 9 to Mary Phillips. <br />1 <br />