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Resource Number: 5BL11312 Temporary Resource Number: 157508435004 The 1892 Louisville directory also shows Arthur Carveth as a carpenter residing in Louisville. The exact year of the Carveth family's arrival in Louisville is not known, however. Arthur and Ann's sons, James Arthur and Frank, along with their cousin, opened a general merchandise store in Louisville called Carveth Brothers & Dalby. The business was located at 801 Main Street (5BL961.6, now the State Mercantile Building) from approximately 1910 to 1945. The Louisville directory for 1904 shows Arthur and Ann Carveth and their son James living at the corner of Jefferson and Pine. The directory does not give a specific address but this house is at the corner of Jefferson and Pine. The 1916 Louisville directory lists Ann as a widow living on Pine. The 1920 census shows that Ann Carveth was living on Pine, likely in this home, with her brother James Dalby. Humphrey Ownership, 1925 - 1938 In 1925, James Arthur Carveth (son of Arthur and Ann) and Mary Carveth (the widow of James Arthur Carveth's brother, Frank) sold Lots 21 and 22 to Joseph and Della Humphrey. It is believed that Della was the second wife of Joseph. Joe Humphrey (1865 — 1930) had previously operated the Commercial Hotel a block to the east on Pine Street. James Ownership, 1938 - present Gladys and George James married in 1933 and acquired this property in 1938 from Della Humphrey. George James grew up in Louisville as the son of Gregory and Sarah (Severia) James. George was the youngest of twelve children. Despite the American sounding last name, the family was Italian, with the name having been changed from "DiGiacomo." Both of George's parents had been born in Italy and his father worked as a coal miner in Louisville. George was also a coal miner, and one of the mines at which he worked was the Centennial Mine, according to Louisville directories. According to his daughter, Debbie Vogelsberg, he also worked for Public Service in the summers when the coal mines in the Louisville area would close. (Due to the poor quality of the coal, it could not be stockpiled in the summers because it would disintegrate, so the mines would close.) When the coal mines closed for good in the Louisville area in the 1950s, George James went to work for the National Bureau of Standards in Boulder. He is remembered as having had a love of theater and even performed as an actor with the Nomad Players, a theater troupe based in Boulder. Gladys James also grew up in Louisville, as the daughter of a Swedish -American family. Her parents were Jonas and Hannah Johnson and they had a farm just outside what would be considered Old Town Louisville. George and Gladys James had one child, Debbie. Debbie grew up in the house at 700 Pine and graduated from Louisville High School in 1966. In an interview, she stated that she remembers when Pine Street was not a through street and it had much less traffic than it does today, now that it is one of the primary arteries to and from Old Town Louisville. Debbie, whose last name is now Vogelsberg, is the current owner. The property has been in the James family for 75 years. 36. Sources of information: Boulder County "Real Estate Appraisal Card — Urban Master," on file at the Carnegie Library for State and Local History in Boulder, Colorado. Boulder County Clerk & Recorder's Office public records, accessed through http://recorder.bouldercounty.orq Directories of Louisville residents and businesses on file at the Louisville Historical Museum. Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps dated August 1893, November 1900, and August 1908. Census records and other records accessed through www.ancestrv.com . Archival materials on file at the Louisville Historical Museum. Interviews with the owner, Debbie Vogelsberg, 2009 & 2010, by Bridget Bacon, Museum Coordinator, Louisville Historical Museum. VI. SIGNIFICANCE 37. Local landmark designation: Yes X No _ Date of designation: March 5, 2013 Designating authority: NA 37A. Applicable Local Landmark Criteria for Historic Landmarks: A. Architectural. (1) Exemplifies specific elements of an architectural style or period. 4