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resident Jemima McHugh, who had acquired a number of lots in the Nicola Di Giacomo Addition. Annie Patete's children then built homes on the block. Besides 1245 Grant, which was the home of Angelina Bartimoccio D'Agostino, other houses on this block where Annie Patete's descendants lived were 1201 Grant (home of Annie's daughter, Nellie Inama); 1209 Grant (home of son Dominic Patete); 1237 Grant (home of granddaughter Anna D'Agostino); 1200 Lincoln (home of granddaughter Shirley Helart); and 1212 Lincoln (home of granddaughter Rose Marie D'Agostino). Another of Annie Patete's children, Annetta Patete, lived across Lafayette St. from 1245 Grant, at 1303 Grant. Even today, at least two of these houses are still owned by Annie Patete's descendants. Annie Patete died in 1938. Annie Patete's daughter, Angelina, was born in Louisville in 1903 and for the most part grew up in her mother and stepfather's house on Front Street in Louisville. She married Louis (also stated as Luigi) D'Agostino in 1924. Born in about 1902 in France, he had just immigrated in 1922. In 1927, Annie Patete conveyed Lot 83 et al, Block 4, which is the legal description of 1245 Grant, to her daughter and son-in-law, Angelina and Louis D'Agostino. The D'Agostinos later acquired additional lots on the block from Annie Patete (Lots 81 et al in 1933) and from Angelina's half-sister, Nellie Inama (Lots 87 et al in 1949). The online County records give 1927 as the date of construction for 1245 Grant, which is believed to not be technically correct. The 1948 Boulder County Assessor Card for this property indicates that the house was "moved in" in 1927. This is an indication that it was relocated from another location in 1927, and that it would have been constructed earlier than that. (Many buildings in Louisville were relocated; an article on this topic from The Louisville Historian publication can be found at: http://library.louisvilleco.gov/Portals/1/pdf/Louisville%20Historian/2011-4 Fall.pdf.) The D'Agostinos' daughter, Anna, confirmed to the current owners of 1245 Grant that the house was moved from a mine camp, and consisted of just four rooms at the time. The year 1927 would appear to be a reliable date for the move, given that Angelina and Louis D'Agostino became owners of the lots that same year. Three years after the house was moved in, the 1930 census was taken and shows that the residents of 1245 Grant were Louis D'Agostino, a miner; Angelina D'Agostino; and their young daughters, Anna and Rose. At the time of the 1940 census, besides Louis, Angelina, Anna, and Rose, other residents of the house were Angelina's half-sister, Annetta Patete, and another relative, James Copley. Louis was still working as a miner, according to the census records.