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Resource Number: 5BL7978 Temporary Resource Number: 157508435007 United States and to Louisville as a small boy in 1896 and married Garnet Williams in 1920. He worked as a coal miner and retired from the Pluto Mine due to illness in 1954. Louisville directories for the 1950s and 1960s show the George and Garnet Poydock family living at 617 La Farge. In the 1956 directory, it is noted that Garnet is a clerk at Joe's Fruit Store, which was located at 920 Main St. Garnet Williams lived from 1897 to 1982. Records indicate that in 1972, she conveyed the south half of Lot 8 to the new owners of 609 La Farge, Allan and Rachel Farber, to whom her sister (Margaret Hodgson) had conveyed her property. In 1982, 617 La Farge, now consisting of a lot and a half instead of two lots, was conveyed to Gary Brandenburg and Joyce Halbert -Brandenburg, who are the current owners, and it left the Williams family after a period of 58 years. Sources of Information Archival materials on file at the Louisville Historical Museum. 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.bouldercountv.org. Census records and other records accessed through www.ancestry.com. Conarroe, Carolyn, The Louisville Story, Louisville Times, Inc., 2000. Directories of Louisville residents and businesses on file at the Louisville Historical Museum. Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville, Colorado, 1909 Green Mountain Cemetery Index to Interment Books, 1904-1925, Boulder Genealogical Society, 2006. Louisville, Colorado building permit files Louisville, Colorado cemetery records, accessed at http://files.usgwarchives.org/co/boulder/cemeteries/louisville.txt Louisville Times Centennial Edition, August 17, 1978. Sanborn Insurance Maps for Louisville, Colorado, 1893, 1900, and 1908 13. National Register Eligibility Assessment: Eligible Not eligible X Need data Explain: The house possesses a high degree of integrity and is a good representative example of the Late 19th and 20th Century Revival style. It is not sufficiently significant to qualify for individual listing in the National Register of Historic Places, but it does have sufficient significance and integrity to qualify as a contributing property to a potential National Register or local historic district. Integrity of materials is somewhat compromised by the newer, and visually prominent, fish scale gable siding, but the rest of the historic siding and the historic windows are still intact. 13A. Colorado State Register: Not Eligible X Local landmark: Eligible X 4