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The County website gives 1910 as the date of construction, and the 1948 County Assessor card <br />also gives this as the date. The County has sometimes been found to be in error with respect to <br />the dates of construction of historic buildings in Louisville. In this case, there is evidence that <br />the house at 944 Grant was constructed slightly earlier than the date given by the County. The <br />1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville shows that the original house had already been built on <br />Lot 2 by 1909. It is also possible that the house was constructed in 1908 (the year when the <br />deed was recorded for the Fabrizio family's purchase of the house), or even earlier. <br />Lucia Domenico Fabrizio and her husband, Antonio "Tony" Fabrizio, were both born in Italy. <br />Lucia was born in Italy in 1871 and came to the United States in 1879, when she was eight years <br />old. Antonio Fabrizio was born in Italy in 1862 and came to the U.S. in about 1881, when he was <br />around nineteen years old. They married in about 1888. Lucia's obituary states that they came <br />to Louisville in 1892, and this was also stated by son Michael "Mike" Fabrizio in a March 1975 <br />oral history interview. (Louisville's first Italian families are believed to have arrived in 1890.) <br />Antonio Fabrizio was a carpenter who built houses in the Louisville area, and according to the <br />oral history interview conducted with his son, Mike, Antonio also operated at least one saloon <br />on Front Street. The "A. Fabrizio Saloon," pictured here in the late 1890s or early 1900s, was <br />located on the northwest corner of Pine and Front: <br />This photo was included in the 2007 exhibit "Italians of Denver" at the Colorado History <br />Museum (now called the History Colorado Center) as an example of an Italian -owned saloon <br />that helped with assimilation of Italians in the Denver area. <br />The 1910 federal census listed Antonio Fabrizio as being a carpenter, and it seems very likely <br />that he constructed his house. He was later joined in carpentry work by two of his sons, Michael <br />2 <br />