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Resource Number: 5BL 11296
<br />Temporary Resource Number: 157508426010
<br />32. Intermediate use(s): N/A
<br />33. Current use(s): Domestic, Single Dwelling
<br />34. Site type(s): Urban residence
<br />35. Historical background:
<br />This building is part of Jefferson Place, the first residential subdivision in Louisville. The existing house was built in
<br />1993 by Guerino and Lidia Melchior. It replaced an earlier historic home that was built ca. 1900.
<br />The historic house at 720 Jefferson, no longer extant, is one of several in this part of Jefferson Place that were
<br />owned and lived in by members of the Beveridge family, the others being 624 Pine (5BL956), 701 Jefferson
<br />(5BL11294), and 705 Jefferson (5BL11294). Joan Beveridge Bailey Jones owned the property for about 50 years.
<br />The first owner of the property, after Jefferson Place developer Charles Welch, was Louis Bonello (also stated to be
<br />"Bonells"), who acquired it in 1895. A week later, he transferred it to "Antonia" Mangus. This was likely a reference to
<br />Antonio, or Anton, Mangus. He owned and resided at 633 Jefferson nearby.
<br />The County gives 1900 as an estimated date of construction for the original house, but it may have been constructed
<br />earlier. Boulder County has sometimes been found to be in error with respect to historic buildings in Louisville. In this
<br />case, no specific evidence was found that would shed light on its date of construction.
<br />The property in question is outside of the boundaries of the Sanborn Maps that were done for Louisville in 1893,
<br />1900, and 1908 (they focused on the downtown business district and La Farge Avenue only).
<br />The house at 720 Jefferson does appear in the correct location on the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville and on
<br />the Methodist Church Map of Louisville that was made in circa 1923-25.
<br />Property record research reveals some gaps in the ownership history of 720 Jefferson, and more research would be
<br />needed in order to resolve some inconsistencies. A deed transferring the property from Antonio Mangus to Joan and
<br />Ephraim Bailey was recorded with Boulder County in 1920. In 1922, a deed transferring the property from Ephraim
<br />and Joan Bailey to "Jennette" Beveridge was recorded. Janette Beveridge was Joan Bailey's mother. However, a
<br />transaction conveying the property from Beveridge back to the Baileys was not located in the online property records,
<br />despite the fact that the Baileys ended up owning the property. Also, evidence of who lived in the house could not be
<br />located for the period of 1895 (the year in which Charles Welch sold the property) until 1921. It seems likely that the
<br />house was a rental during that time.
<br />Joan Beveridge was born in Louisville, Colorado in 1886. She grew up with her parents, Thomas and Janette
<br />Beveridge, at 701 Jefferson, while her grandmother, Jane Ferguson, lived at 705 Jefferson. These houses are across
<br />the street from 720 Jefferson.
<br />In about 1909, Joan Beveridge married Ephraim Bailey. He was born in England in circa 1882 and came to the US in
<br />about 1889. At the time of the 1910 census, they were living in Hanna, Wyoming and Ephraim was working as a
<br />miner. At the time of the 1920 census, they were living in Montana. In 1921, according to a Louisville directory, they
<br />were living in this house, as was William Bailey.
<br />Joan Bailey and Ephraim Bailey either divorced, or he passed away. Records indicate that in the 1920s and early
<br />1930s, she was living with her brother, Thomas Beveridge, and their mother, Janette Beveridge, at 701 Jefferson.
<br />In 1938, Joan Bailey remarried, to George W. Jones. George Jones was born in about 1884 in Colorado to parents
<br />from England. At the age of 15, in 1900, he was already working as a miner in Clear Creek County. He married Laura
<br />Jones and they were living in Louisville at the time of the 1920 census. By 1930, they were divorced and he was
<br />living with his widowed mother, Kezia Jones, and his widowed sister, Lena Jones Hamilton, in Louisville.
<br />George W. Jones worked as a miner in the Louisville area. According to the 1946 directory for Louisville, he was
<br />working at that time at the Monarch Mine. Joan Jones was active in a number of Louisville organizations, including
<br />the Rebekah Lodge, Pythian Sisters, Dahlia Club, Pioneer Club, Spanish-American War Veterans Auxiliary, and the
<br />First Baptist Church.
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