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According to Mansueto Pellillo in a 1995 oral history interview accessed from Boulder's Carnegie Library, the Pellillo House and yard dropped a few feet when the underlying mine caved in. The family had to fill the yard back up with dirt and jack the house back up. (He did not give a date for this occurrence.) The Pellillos transferred ownership of Lot 10 with its two buildings in 1955 to Toney W. La Salle, who had already purchased the northern half of Lot 9 in 1950 and was operating the La Salle Furniture Store from that location. Toney W. La Salle — 18 years. As noted above, Toney La Salle, having moved his furniture store into the building located on the northern half of Lot 9 (see above), upon purchasing Lot 10 set about expanding his store. La Salle left the Pellillo House intact and rented it out for many years, according to a biography of John Pellillo in the May 1994 Louisville Historian. La Salle retired in 1960 but continued to own the furniture store, where the daily business was being handled by a manager. He sold the property in 1973 to an interest of his nephew, Dominic DeSantis, and died later that year. Marketplace Building Dominic DeSantis appears to have had an interest in Lot 10 and the northern half of Lot 9 from 1973 to 1979. Other names associated with the building were Morgan & DeSantis, BOFIRNAT, Jimmie Kellie, Robert Sparks, and Michael Sanfilippo. Records show that it was still being run as a furniture store during this time, with the name having been changed to Louisville Furniture. The following photo shows the building in 1978: L0(110l 11f FURNITURE It was in 1983 that then owners Warren Jackson and C. Raymond Sears purchased 820 and 828 Main (the north half of Lot 9 and all of Lot 10) and created the Marketplace Building. An article in the Louisville Times dated October 5, 1983 stated: "For the past several weeks those who frequent the downtown Louisville area have been watching an amazing transformation. The old furniture store building at 820 Main Street is being changed from a bland and abandoned storefront that had seen better days to a completely refurbished Victorian -style building that may soon become a focal point of downtown activity." The article noted that the building was at the time 85 years old and went on, "Sears said he designed the Victorian false -front facade for the building with the idea of complementing some of the other historical architecture in the 11