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Louisville Historical Museum Department of Library & Museum Services City of Louisville, Colorado April 2008; updated September 2017 Cityof Louisville COLORADO • SINCE 1878 1024 La Farge, Louisville, Colorado According to the Boulder County Assessor's website, the property at 1024 La Farge is owned by Timothy and Amy Hancock and occupies Lots 17-18, Block 1, Barclay Place in Louisville. The County Assessor's records state that the house was built in 1909. It should be noted that the year of construction given in the County records has frequently been found to be mistaken or at least questionable with respect to other properties that have been researched in Louisville, and it is typically the case that the County gives a later date of construction than what other information would indicate. In any case, the house appears in the correct location on the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville at the Louisville Historical Museum, so it was certainly constructed by the year 1909 and may have been constructed earlier, around the time that the Grosso family purchased the lots in 1904. Development of Barclay Place The Colorado Mortgage & Investment Co. Ltd. was the developer of the Barclay Place subdivision, recording it with the County in 1897. In 1904, at about the same time that many others were also buying lots in Barclay Place, Gaspero Grosso acquired the property at 1024 La Farge. (In some records, his first name appears as Gasper or Jasper and his last name appears as Grasso.) Grosso Family, 1904 —1955 Gaspero Grosso acquired Lots 17 and 18 in 1904 and apparently was the owner at the time that the house was built (which was by 1909). Grosso had emigrated from Italy and was about 29 years old in 1904. His wife, Brigida, was about 23 in 1904, and records indicate that they had three young sons who were born in about 1900, 1902, and 1904. Additional information regarding the Grosso family in Louisville could not be located. There is some indication from census records that the family moved to Montana, with the family retaining ownership of the property in Louisville.