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Louisville Historical Museum Department of Library & Museum Services City of Louisville, Colorado November 2013 I�f city Louisville COLORADO • SINCE 187 1428 Cannon St. History Legal Description: Lot 9, Block 7, Caledonia Place Year of Construction: County gives 1900 as the date of construction; the house was relocated to current location in circa 1956. Summary: This house, moved to its current location in Little Italy in circa 1956, was the home of the Bonifacio and Rosie Duran family for over 50 years. Ownership of the property passed out of the Duran family in 2012. Bonifacio and Rosie Duran's son, William J. Duran, is still remembered by many in Boulder County following his death in a 1982 training fire for the Boulder Fire Department. Development of Caledonia Place The subdivision in which 1428 Cannon is located is Caledonia Place. It was platted and recorded with Boulder County in 1890 by James Cannon, Jr., Howard Morris, and Henry Brooks. It was the fourth addition to original Louisville, which had been platted in 1878. Little Italy Neighborhood; Relocation of House to this Site In 1893, Peter James (a name that was Americanized from "Di Giacomo") bought all twelve lots of Block 7 of the Caledonia Place Addition from the United Coal Company, the company of Caledonia Place founder James Cannon, Jr. James sold off different lots to buyers. Peter James sold Lot 9 to Mary James, who sold it to Antonio Onorato in 1898. Onorato sold it to the Gentile family in 1914. (The Gentile family was Italian, and other spellings of their name included Gendillo, Gendilo, and Gentille.) Members of the Gentile family are believed to have owned both Lot 8 and Lot 9 until 1947, when Bonifacio Duran purchased both lots. The neighborhood in which this house is located is known as Little Italy. The particularly high concentration of Italians in Little Italy and the separation of this enclave from the rest of the 1