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Louisville Historical Museum Department of Library & Museum Services City of Louisville, Colorado March 2006; updated September 2014 IU Cityof Om Louisville COLORADO • SINCE 1878 History of 536 Main St., Louisville, CO With emphasis on Romano/Leach family ownership Year of Construction: circa 1908 Desire Parbois & Development of the Parbois Addition Several properties on South Main Street make up what is called the Parbois Addition. Desire Parbois (1861-1933) was born in France and came to the U.S. in 1888. He was a coal miner and farmer. He and his wife, Josephine (who was also from France) had several children who married into other Louisville families. In the early 1900s, according to County records, Parbois sold numerous properties on South Main Street and presumably these properties are what make up the Parbois Addition. These properties were very near to the Acme Mine and particularly its mine dump, which was in the middle of Main Street by what is now the Elks Club parking lot. In terms of the date of construction, the 1948 County Assessor card for this property suggests that the house was constructed in circa 1908. In 1913, Desire Parbois sold this property to Joseph and Santina Montacelli. Romano/Leach Family Ownership Members of the Romano/Leach family have owned this property for many decades. However, it it is difficult to tell exactly when Dominic Romano and Maria Veneranda Romano first acquired it. It appears that Dominic and Maria Romano owned the property at issue starting in 1923, when they acquired it from Joseph and Santina Montacelli, who had acquired it from Desire Parbois in 1913. The available directories support that it was in the mid-1920s that the family purchased it and began living in it. The 1926 directory was the first directory to list the Romano family as living in this location. (The family had been living in Denver at the time of the 1920 census.) 1