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In 1943 the LeComtes moved the house to LaFarge Avenue in Louisville. Mr. LeComte added a bedroom, bathroom and sunporch onto the house. The pantry became a hall way to the two bedrooms and built-in cupboards were added to replace the pantry. The cellar entrance, which was originally on the outside of the house, was now within the sun porch area. ... We bought this house from the Delkas in 1984. The only major change we have made is to recover the original oak floors in the main part of the house. In all the rooms, except the kitchen, it was just a matter of removing he old carpeting. The kitchen floor had linoleum tar papered to the oak, with carpeting later glued on top of the linoleum. The back three rooms were added after the house was moved here from Superior. You can notice where the pine floors start in the hallway by the kitchen. Inside the kitchen cabinets, you can see the original wainscoating, which is now covered by wallpaper and birch paneling. Many of the light fixtures, the wide baseboard around the floors and the mouldings around the doors and windows, are original. We have added a shower and tiles to the bathroom. In the basement, you will find the octopus -arm furnace and a few items associated with coal heating. The furnace has been converted to gas. The coal room and the fruit cellar are now used for storage. The house was one of the five homes on the Holiday Home Tour, organized by the Louisville Historical Museum and Louisville Historical Commission, in 2003. The book Lost Superior: Remembering the Architectural Heritage of a Colorado Coal Mining Town by the Superior Historical Commission came out in 2014 and included a page about 509 La Farge as a relocated house that was moved from Superior to Louisville. It included the following text and photo taken by Doreen L. Ruffe in 2004: This is a typical hipped box mine camp house which usually had a front porch. The original porch has been altered but the original form and scale are intact. It appears as though the original wood siding has been covered with vinyl siding. 7