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L Cityo Louisville Louisville Historical Museum Department of Library & Museum Services City of Louisville, Colorado September 2016 COLORADO • SINCE 187E 1029 La Farge Ave. History Legal Description: N 9 FT LOT 7 & ALL LOT 8 BLK 4 BARCLAY PLACE Year of Construction: circa 1906 Summary: This was the home of the Beretta family from the late 1920s until the early 1960s. The intriguing earlier history of this house is intertwined with the histories of other houses that E.J. Di Francia bought in the early 1900s. The family story is that he acquired houses to be his daughters' dowries and for them to live in, and the story is supported by the historical evidence. However, the evidence also suggests that only one married daughter lived in any of the houses before he passed away in 1918 and his wife, Maria, had to sell the houses. The house, and this block in general, is strongly tied to Louisville's Italian residents. From when Di Francia purchased the lots by 1905 until 1983, there was continuous ownership of 1029 La Farge by people of Italian heritage, and in most cases, they had actually been born in Italy. Development of Barclay Place The Colorado Mortgage and Investment Co., Limited, a corporation organized under the laws of Great Britain and doing business in Colorado, in 1897 platted the Barclay Place subdivision in which these buildings are located. Di Francia Family Ownership, 1905-1921 Eusebio Giuseppe "Joe" Di Francia (often referred to as E.J. Di Francia) purchased a parcel consisting of Lots 5-8, Block 4, Barclay Place by a deed recorded in 1905. The history of this particular house comes with a family story, which is that descendants of the Di Francia family, whose primary home in the early 1900s was the large brick house next door at 1045 La Farge, years ago told the current owners of 1045 La Farge that the three small 1