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Louisville Historical Museum Department of Library & Museum Services City of Louisville, Colorado June 2012 LCity�f Louisville COLORADO • SINCE 1878 720 West St., Louisville, Colorado Legal Description: Lots 3 and 4 and the western 17 % feet of Lot 5, Block 6, Kimberly Addition Year of Construction: Circa 1900 (see discussion) Summary: This house was owned by the related Dixon/Duffy/Channel family for about eighty years. It was located in the neighborhood of "Kimbertown" initially developed by an Englishman for his family and in which families from the British Isles (including the Duffy/Dixon family) settled. The Kimber/Wardle Family and The Kimberly Addition George Kimber originally came from Cornwall in England. In about 1884, he married Charlotte Wardle in Yorkshire. She is known to have had five children with James Wardle and evidently had been widowed. Charlotte had at least four more children with George Kimber, her second husband. The family lived in an area known for coal mining in the north of England, living on "Coffee Pot Row" in Trimdon Colliery, County Durham. George was a coal miner. The Kimber/Wardle family emigrated to the U.S. in 1893. The children who are known to have come to Louisville were Arthur, Charles, and James Wardle, and Rebecca, Charlotte, Marie, and Polly Kimber. George Kimber and his family acquired property in what is now the vicinity of West, Mead, and Roosevelt beginning when they first arrived in Louisville in the 1890s. The family built homes on this property even before it was platted, as shown on the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville. The County Assessor's records state that the house at 720 West was built in 1900. The County's records have sometimes been found to be incorrect with respect to the date of construction, with "1900" being a date frequently given by the County, apparently as an