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Resource Number: 5BL8022 Temporary Resource Number: NIA Architectural Inventory Form (Page 3 of 5) V. HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS 31. Original use(s): Single Dwelling 32. Intermediate use(s): Single Dwelling 33. Current use(s): Single Dwelling 34. Site type(s): Residence 35. Historical Background This house was built a few years after the turn of the twentieth century, and was the home of Lawton W. and Nellie McCorkle until the late 1920s. The McCorkles were Louisville merchants. They opened up a small general store at the corner of LaFarge and Walnut in 1906, before moving the business to Main Street a few years later. McCorkle's City Market was located on Main Street in Louisville for several decades. In the 1950s, McCorkle was vice-president of the First State Bank of Louisville. In about 1927, the McCorkles sold this property to Lewis D. and Katherine (Dionigi) Rosser, and moved to 1101 Jefferson Avenue. Lewis Rosser was a coal miner, of Welsh English and Cherokee Indian descent. Katherine was the daughter of Italian immigrants Joseph and Genevieve Dionigi. The property's current owners are William and Betty Lou Martella. Betty Lou is the daughter of Lewis and Katherine Rosser. This was her childhood home. Bill Martella grew up in Louisville in a house on Lincoln Avenue. He worked at Rocky Flats for thirty-four years, and is now retired. 36. Sources of Information (Boulder County) "Real Estate Appraisal Card - Urban Master", on file at the Boulder Carnegie Library. Conarroe, Carolyn. The Louisville Story, Louisville: Louisville Times Inc., 1978. Martella, Beatrice (Betty), and Martella, William (Bill). Oral interview with Carl McWilliams, April 14, 2000. Polk's Boulder County Directory [generally published annually], Denver, Kansas City, and Salt Lake City: R.L. Polk and Company Publishers. Polk's Longmont City Directory, [generally published annually], Denver, Kansas City, and Salt Lake City: R.L. Polk and Company, Publishers, 1966 - 1997.