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and Joseph, who were listed as being carpenters in the 1920, 1930, and 1940 censuses. They <br />were called the Fabrizio Brothers. (Among the houses that they built was 557 Jefferson in 1954. <br />The house at 557 Jefferson was locally landmarked in 2010 and the City of Louisville named it <br />the Fabrizio House after the builders.) <br />Lucia and Antonio Fabrizio had at least ten children who were raised in their house at 944 <br />Grant. Antonio died in 1913 at the age of about 51, when Lucia was pregnant with their last <br />child. (The story that his death was due to mining could not be confirmed; his name is not on <br />the list of deaths that occurred in Boulder County mines.) <br />After Antonio died in 1913, Lucia and many of their children continued to live in the house. <br />Their children were: Michael (1889-1978), Joseph (1891-1968), Delbie (1896-1992), James <br />(1897-1979), Frank (1900-1993), Victor (1902-1977), Helen (1904-1993), Cecelia (1906-1983), <br />Grace (1908-2002), and Bernard (1913-1993). Lucia is remembered as having taken in washing <br />to support her family and used the "wash house" for this purpose. According to the current <br />owner and previous owners, the wash house used to be located by the back door of the original <br />house at 944 Grant and is now located by the alley. <br />In around 1994, Grace Fabrizio Ardourel stopped by the house. According to the mother of <br />then -owner Mick Gigone, Grace Ardourel stated on that occasion that some of the boys in the <br />family would sleep in the wash house during the summer. <br />In his March 1975 oral history interview, Mike Fabrizio made reference to the strike conflict of <br />1910-1914 and the escalation of violence between strikers and strikebreakers at the Hecla Mine <br />in April 1914 when guns were fired from the Hecla Mine directly into residential Louisville. He <br />was the oldest child and was then about 25 years old. He stated that he got his mother, <br />brothers, and sisters out of their home and to safety in Denver. <br />It is believed that nearly all of the ten Fabrizio children attended college. Victor owned a <br />restaurant in Denver and was a store manager. Bernard served in the U.S. Army Air Corps <br />during World War II. Another son, Frank Fabrizio, graduated from Louisville High School in 1920, <br />then began a career in education. By 1923, and perhaps earlier, he was employed as a teacher <br />in the Louisville Junior High School, then became principal of the Junior High. He then became <br />principal of Louisville High School. He was the principal when the new high school opened on N. <br />Main St. in 1939 and taught math and chemistry while also working as principal. <br />In 1944, Lucia Fabrizio transferred ownership of 944 Grant to her son, Michael Fabrizio. <br />The following photo of the house and a ground layout sketch are from the Boulder County <br />Assessor card that is dated 1948: <br />3 <br />