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Tomeo was born in Italy in about 1872 and came to the US in about 1894. He constructed a house on Lots 3 & 4 and lived there with his family. This house is now the Tomeo House located at the Louisville Historical Museum and is just to the south of 1021 Main. Pasqual Satriano Ownership and Discussion of Date of Construction By a deed recorded in 1903, Pasqual Satriano purchased this property from Felix Tomeo. He is believed to have been an immigrant from Italy. Other biographical information about him could not be located. Satriano granted at least four deeds of trust (similar to mortgages) during the course of his ownership. One of these was a deed of trust given to Irving Elberson of the Louisville Bank in 1911. In 1918, ownership of 1021 Main was conveyed to the Louisville Bank through a Public Trustee's Certificate of Purchase, likely pursuant to the terms of the deed of trust. This transaction suggests that Satriano defaulted on the 1911 loan. Boulder County online records and the 1948 County Assessor card both give 1908 as the date of construction of this house. Boulder County has sometimes been in error with respect to the dates of construction of houses in the area, so other evidence is looked to. The house is in the correct location on the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map. The 2000 Architectural Inventory Form concluded that the year of construction was 1908. In the absence of other evidence, the date of construction is estimated to be "circa 1908." The reason for the house being somewhat grander than many other homes in Louisville could not be determined. Although tenants of a property can be hard to identify because rental arrangements were not recorded by the County, in this case there is other evidence that points to there having been two likely tenants of 1021 Main during the ownership of the house by Pasqual Satriano: J.A. Corrigan Residence at 1021 Main A Louisville physician in the early 1900s was John A. Corrigan, who was born in Canada in 1880. Records indicate that he obtained his medical license in 1905. The 1910 census records appear to show Corrigan and his wife, Dorothy, and young son, Hugh, living as renters in what appears to be the house at 1021 Main in between the Tomeo-owned household to the south and the Staffieri-owned household to the north (at what is now 1029 Main). Interestingly, Corrigan also was granted a deed of trust secured by the property at 1021 Main by Pasqual Satriano in 1907, which gives him another connection to the property. (In 1909, the Denver Post reported on a hearing before the state medical board of examiners on the charge brought against Dr. Corrigan by a Louisville resident that he was habitually drunk and should have his license revoked.) John Jordinelli Residence at 1021 Main John Jordinelli was a Louisville saloonkeeper who likely was related to the other Jordinelli families living in Louisville. The 1916 and 1918 Louisville directories list him as living at 522 Second Street, which was the old address of 1021 Main. (522 Second St. was later the address for Joseph DiSalvo's home at 1021 Main.) When Prohibition started in Colorado in 1916, John Jordinelli briefly became a coal miner before leaving Louisville to move to Brighton, where he started a pool hall that became a restaurant, Jordinelli's, that is still in existence. As with Dr. 2