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Louisville Historical Museum Department of Library & Museum Services City of Louisville, Colorado March 2015 Cityof Louisville COLORADO • SINCE 1878 1309 Jefferson Ave. History Legal Description: Lot 8, Block 7, Fischer Addition Year of Construction: 1954 Summary: This house was owned by the Albert and Eileen Schmidt family for over 60 years. Development of the Fischer Addition Nicola DiGiacomo (1852-1915) owned and farmed this area. In 1907, he platted the Nicola DiGiacomo Addition, which consists of four and a half blocks, all of them with addresses in the 1200s, that stretch across the north end of Old Town. However, he kept some of his farm land to the north of the DiGiacomo Addition and it is believed that the family continued to farm it. Eventually, in 1938, the area in which this specific property is situated passed to Rosa DiGiacomo Santi, who was a daughter-in-law of Nicola and Lucia DiGiacomo. In 1946, this property and surrounding properties were conveyed from Rosa Santi to Alvin Fischer. He was a member of the Fischer family that was engaged in building construction in Louisville for many decades. In the late 1940s, there was high demand for housing in Louisville. In 1948, Alvin Fischer filed the plat of the Fischer Subdivision with Boulder County. This area includes the 1300 blocks of Jefferson, Grant, and Lincoln. Date of Construction Property records indicate that a few different people owned this lot after the subdivision was platted in 1948 and before the house was constructed. Lot 8 was originally bundled with Lot 7 (now 1301 Jefferson) and they were sold together as the first parcel in the Fischer subdivision that Alvin Fischer sold. This sale was to Blanche Deardoff. In 1950, Blanche Deardoff sold Lots 7 and 8 to Thomas and Margaret Stelmach, who sold both lots to Lawrence and Helen Caranci in 1951. 1