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Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />March 2016 <br />IECityo, <br />Louisville <br />COLORADO • SINCE 1878 <br />737 West St., Louisville, Colorado <br />Legal Description: Lots 6-8, Block 5, Kimberly Addition <br />Year of Construction: Circa 1905 <br />Summary: This house was connected with the John and Christine German family for 50 <br />years, and members of the German family owned it for at least 40 of those years. It is <br />located in the Kimberly Addition that was initially settled by the Kimber/Wardle family <br />of England and became the neighborhood of "Kimbertown." <br />The Kimber/Wardle Family and The Kimberly Addition <br />George Kimber originally came from Cornwall in England. In about 1884, he married <br />Charlotte Wardle in Yorkshire. She is known to have had five children with James <br />Wardle and evidently had been widowed. Charlotte had at least four more children with <br />George Kimber, her second husband. The family lived in an area known for coal mining <br />in the north of England and resided on "Coffee Pot Row" in Trimdon Colliery, County <br />Durham. George was a coal miner. <br />The Kimber/Wardle family emigrated to the U.S. in 1893. The children who are known <br />to have come to Louisville were Arthur, Charles, and James Wardle, and Rebecca, <br />Charlotte, Marie, and Polly Kimber. <br />George Kimber and his family acquired property in what is now the vicinity of West, <br />Mead, and Roosevelt beginning when they first arrived in Louisville in the 1890s. The <br />family built homes on this property before it was even platted. The 1909 Drumm's Wall <br />Map of Louisville shows fifteen houses already built in the area that was to be platted as <br />the Kimberly Addition. Today, it is believed that about seven of these original houses <br />remain, including the house at 737 West. <br />1 <br />