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Resource Number: 5BL 8002 Temporary Resource Number: 157508404001 It should be noted that the 1948 County Assessor card for 801 Walnut lists as owners a couple who owned not 801 Walnut but rather 936 La Farge (J.H. and Rosamond Jones). The card for 936 La Farge similarly exhibits some confusion with 801 Walnut over the legal description and past owners. 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. Census records and other records accessed through www.ancestry.com . Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville, Colorado, 1909 Sanborn Insurance Maps for Louisville, Colorado, 1893, 1900, and 1908 Louisville, Colorado cemetery records, accessed at http://files.usgwarchives.org/co/boulder/cemeteries/louisville.txt Smith, Phyllis, Once a Coal Miner: The Story of Colorado's Northern Coal Field, Pruett Publishing Company, Boulder, Colorado, 1989. Buffo, Ron. "My Dad, Bill Buffo." The Louisville Historian. Louisville Historical Museum and Commission, Louisville, Colorado, Spring 2011. Archival materials on file at the Louisville Historical Museum, including an undated family history entitled "Buffo," donated by the Buffo family. Interviews conducted by Museum Coordinator Bridget Bacon: William Buffo, Jan. 26, 2011. 13. National Register Eligibility Assessment: Eligible Not eligible X Need data Explain: While the property has sufficient integrity and significance to be a contributing resource to a State Register or local historic district, it lacks sufficient integrity to be individually eligible to the National Register or to be contributing to a potential National Register historic district. The property has integrity of location, workmanship, and association. Integrity of setting is compromised by the modified garage location. Integrity of design is compromised by modified windows and window openings. Integrity of materials is compromised by replacement asbestos siding. 13A. Colorado State Register: Eligible Not Eligible X 13B. Louisville Local Landmark: Eligible X Not Eligible Although the property lacks sufficient integrity to be individually eligible to the National or State Registers, its long association with the locally prominent Buffo family, an Italian immigrant mining family, make it worthy of nomination as a local landmark. 13C. Historic District Potential: Jefferson Place is eligible as a State Register and local historic district. There is potential for a National Register historic district. This property is a contributing resource to a State Register and local historic district, but non-contributing to a potential National Register historic district. Discuss: This building is being recorded as part of a 2010-2011 intensive -level historical and architectural survey of Jefferson Place, Louisville's first residential subdivision, platted in 1880. The purpose of the survey is 5