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Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />December 2012 <br />ILZ Cityof <br />Louisville <br />COLORAn0 • SINCE 187E <br />1013 Jefferson Ave. History <br />Legal Description: Lots 3 & 4, Block 2, Capitol Hill Addition <br />Year of Construction: circa 1906 <br />Previous Addresses of this Property: 512 Jefferson and 522 Jefferson (under Louisville's <br />old address system); 1015 Jefferson in 1940 and 1943 when Louisville addresses were in <br />transition <br />Summary: Historically, this home was the residence of three different Louisville families <br />up to 1973: The Butcher/Jones family, the Gina Guenzi family, and the Berardi/Elnicki <br />family. <br />Development of the Capitol Hill Addition <br />J.C. Williams, a mine superintendent, and Irving Elberson, a banker, were the developers <br />of the Capitol Hill Addition, the plat of which was filed with the County in 1904. <br />Butcher/Jones Family Ownership, 1905-1932; Date of House Construction <br />In 1905, Martha Butcher purchased these lots from the developers of the Capital Hill <br />Addition. <br />Martha Jones Butcher was born in Maryland in 1870. In 1893, she married David D. <br />Butcher, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1873. David Butcher already owned property <br />in Louisville by 1890. In 1900, however, they were living with (or next to) her family in <br />Clear Creek, Colorado along with their children: Franklin "Frank" Butcher, born 1894, <br />and Arvilla Butcher, born 1897. Her parents, Ebenezer and Kezia Jones, who lived near <br />them in 1900, had several children. The Jones/Butcher family moved to Louisville <br />between 1900 and 1904. Kezia Jones and some of her adult children became longtime <br />residents of this house and of Louisville. <br />