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Their large vegetable garden and chickens they raised helped supply food. The following 1930s <br />photo shows Grace Rossi outside the kitchen door with two of her children, John and Mary. <br />In 1941, the last members of the Rossi family still living in the Tomeo House moved to Denver. <br />Guy Rossi and Rose Tomeo married each other in about 1930, cementing the relationship <br />between these two families that are both so closely identified with the Tomeo House. <br />Dominic Tomeo, son of Felix and Michelina, lived briefly in the Tomeo House after the Rossi <br />family moved to Denver in 1941. The Kuretich family moved into the house after Dominic <br />moved into a house on La Farge Avenue with his mother. According to the Kuretich family, <br />Frank and Rose Kuretich rented the house with their two children until 1943. Dominic Tomeo <br />or his brother, Joe, may have used the Tomeo House off and on for some residential purposes <br />later in the 1940s or 1950s, but the Kuretich family is believed to have been the last family to <br />reside in the Tomeo House. <br />Dominic Tomeo then used the building for storage space until his death in 1983, when the City <br />of Louisville purchased Lots 1-4, including the Tomeo House and Jacoe Store, for the purpose of <br />housing a local history museum. The Tomeo House (then known as the Miner's House) opened <br />as a museum on September 1, 1986. During renovation in the 1980s, electrical outlets, heating, <br />and entrance steps and railings were added to the house. <br />The following photo of the house and a ground layout sketch are from the Boulder County <br />Assessor card that is dated 1948: <br />5 <br />