920 Jefferson Ave Historic Survey

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Resource Number: 5BL 11309 Temporary Resource Number: 157508405007 miner, as were his sons, Rico (18) and Fred (16). Daughter Della, age 21, worked as a servant in a private home. Antonio Ferrari died in 1922. The 1923 directory shows that Louisa went to work at a Main Street grocery store. Louisa then died in 1928. Their son Fred married Angelina Rossi (1911-1986) in 1929 and they moved into the house at 920 Jefferson Ave. Angelina Rossi was born in the Louisville area of Italian parents. She grew up in the historic Tomeo House, a historic house museum located at the Louisville Historical Museum campus at 1001 Main Street (5BL961.7). Records show that Fred and Angelina Ferrari lived in this house at 920 Jefferson through the 1930s and until around 1940. Fred worked as a miner and as a driver for the mines. According to Fred Ferrari's obituary, their children were Tony Ferrari and Alfred Ferrari. Directories show that in the early 1940s, Donald Sahm and Mabel Sandy Sahm rented 920 Jefferson. Mabel Sandy Sahm had other connections to Jefferson Place. Her parents were owners of 913 Jefferson (5BL11308), and Mabel herself owned 613 Jefferson (5BL11289) and 615 Jefferson (5BL11290) following the death of Donald Sahm. In 1946, the Ferrari family sold 920 Jefferson to Naomi Triplett. In 1948, she sold the property, under what is believed to be her new, married name of Naomi Fievet, to Guy and Mary Damelia Domenico. (The name of Domenico is sometimes stated as "Di Domenico.") Census records for the family of Mabel Sandy Sahm indicate that there was a family relationship between the Sandy family and the Triplett family. Mary Damelia Domenico (1919-1995) grew up in Jefferson Place at 820 Jefferson (5BL11303), one block away. She had married Anthony Jordinelli and had a daughter, Janice. She then married Guy Domenico (1909-1948), who died at the age of 38 not long after they purchased 920 Jefferson. They had a son, Raymond Domenico. Following Guy's death, Mary married Guy's older brother, Paul (1902-1973), a widower. They continued to live at 920 Jefferson and raised their children, Janice and Raymond, there. Following Paul Domenico's death in 1973, Mary Damelia in 1984 married Albert Mudrock (1922-1997). The County Assessor card for this property states that the house was remodeled in 1949, soon after Guy and Mary Domenico purchased it. Brothers Guy and Paul Domenico were prominent Louisville businessmen. Guy had a fruit store at the current location of the Louisville City Hall at 749 Main Street. More significantly, in the mid 1940s they together began to operate the Twin Light Tavern, a building still located at 728 Main Street (5BL8009). Paul Domenico then continued to manage the Twin Light until 1969. For many years, particularly after World War II and in the 1950s, it was a popular Louisville gathering spot with a dance floor. In 1996, the property at 920 Jefferson was conveyed to Janice Jordinelli Tesone and Ray Domenico from the estate of their mother, and Ray Domenico continues to be a longtime resident of this house where he grew up. Ray Domenico has a Broomfield motorcycle business, Twin Light Performance, that is named for his family's Main Street business. Other addresses found for 920 Jefferson, under Louisville's old address system, were 415 Jefferson, 425 Jefferson and 428 Jefferson. Starting in 1940, the address was given as 920, with the exception of 1949, when it was given as 926 Jefferson. 36. Sources of information: Boulder County "Real Estate Appraisal Card — Urban Master," on file at the Carnegie Branch Library for Local History in Boulder, Colorado. Boulder County Clerk & Recorder's Office and Assessor's Office public records, accessed through http://recorder.bouldercounty.org. Directories of Louisville residents and businesses on file at the Louisville Historical Museum. 5