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town due to the railroad tracks led to the formation of a close neighborhood and to cultural practices that endured for decades. According to the Boulder County website, this house was constructed in 1900. The County often gives round numbers as estimated dates, and that could be the case here as well. Given that the original location of the house is not known, there is a lack of evidence that might otherwise indicate the exact construction date. The house was moved to the current location at 1428 Cannon in or around 1956. One source for this is the County Assessor card, which states: "House moved in. Not yet set — or fixed up" and which gives a tax assessment for the year 1956. In addition, in her self -published book "Our Family's Journey to the Foot of the Mountains and Beyond," Little Italy resident Mariann Lastoka wrote that Bonnie and Rose Duran purchased a house "on the hill in Boulder" and had it moved to the front of their lot on Cannon St. while they lived in a small mud -walled house on the back of the lot. Last, in a filmed oral history interview conducted as a walk through the Little Italy neighborhood on September 15, 2010 with Ed Domenico, Don Ross, and Betty Marino, Ed Domenico confirmed that 1428 Cannon was the home of "Bonnie" Duran and that it was moved in from another location, and before that the family lived in a small adobe house on the back of the property. Duran Family Residency and Ownership Bonifacio Duran acquired Lots 8 and 9, Block 7, Caledonia Place in 1947. (In 1948, he conveyed Lot 8, which is 1436 Cannon, to his sister, Eva Duran Arroyas, and her husband, and it became their residence.) County property records show that from 1947 to 1970, the deed to 1428 Cannon was held by a Boulder mortgage lender, Esther Pickett. However, 1428 Cannon was the residence of the Duran family during this period. It is believed that the deed was held by Pickett pursuant to a mortgage arrangement. In 1970, presumably when the deed of trust was released, Pickett transferred the deed back to Bonifacio Duran and to his wife, Rose Duran. Bonifacio Lonecio Duran was born in 1914 in Tioga, Huerfano County, Colorado. In 1929, when he was about 15, he and his family moved to Louisville. According to his obituary, he worked as a coal miner in the area, worked in construction and at the Rocky Mountain Quarry, and retired as head custodian at the University of Colorado in 1979. In 1939, Bonnie Duran married Rosie Gomez in Louisville. She was born in 1923 and died in 1980. Bonnie and Rosie Duran's son, William J. Duran, was one of the six Duran children who likely would have grown up in this house. In January 1982, while he was thirty years old and a member of the Boulder Fire Department, William Duran died in a Boulder training fire. A Daily 2