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Louisville Historical Museum Department of Library & Museum Services City of Louisville, Colorado January 2015 LCityof Louisville CO1.ORADO • SINC1: I h7S 1101 Grant Ave. History Legal Description: Lots 1 through 4, Block 6, Capitol Hill Addition Year of Construction: circa 1905 Summary: This was first the home of Samuel and Mattie Barrett, then the home of the Samuel and Olive Atkin family for about seventy years from about 1915 until 1984. Both Samuel Barrett and Samuel Atkin worked as coal miners in the Louisville area. History of the Capitol Hill Addition J.C. Williams, who was a mine superintendent with the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, and Irving Elberson, who was a banker, were the developers of the Capitol Hill Addition. The plat for this addition was filed with the County in 1904. Barrett Ownership, circa 1905 until circa 1915, and Discussion of Date of Construction By a deed recorded in 1906, Samuel S. Barrett purchased Lots 1 through 4, Block 6, of the Capitol Hill Addition. Samuel Stevenson Barrett was born in 1872 in either Illinois or Pennsylvania (available records differ). His parents had been born in Scotland. His wife, Martha "Mattie" Eustice, was born in 1881 in Colorado to parents who had emigrated from England. They married in about 1902. By 1904, they were living in Louisville at La Farge and Pine, according to the 1904 directory for Louisville. The 1906 directory for Louisville, which did not include locations of residences, lists Barrett as being a miner. The 1910 federal census shows Samuel and Mattie Barrett to be living on Grant, and based on who was listed on the census page as living near them, they were living at 1101 Grant Ave. at the time. Samuel was listed as being a coal mine superintendent, and as owning his house. There were no children listed as part of their household. 1