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Resource Number: 5BL8023
<br />Temporary Resource Number: 157508425007
<br />Landscape or special setting description: Jefferson Place Subdivision is a historic residential neighborhood
<br />adjacent to downtown Louisville. The subdivision is laid out on a standard urban grid of narrow, deep lots with
<br />rear alleys. Houses are built to a fairly consistent setback line along the streets with small front lawns, deep
<br />rear yards and mature landscaping. Small, carefully maintained single-family residences predominate. Most of
<br />the houses are wood framed, one or one and one-half stories in height, featuring white or light-colored
<br />horizontal wood or steel siding, gabled or hipped asphalt shingled roofs and front porches. While many of the
<br />houses have been modified over the years, most of the historic character -defining features have been
<br />preserved.
<br />801 Pine is consistent with these patterns and blends well with the scale and character of the neighborhood.
<br />The property is a large corner lot with grassy lawns open to both streets at the corner and separated from the
<br />City sidewalk with 4x4 timbers. The large backyard is enclosed with a low chain link fence.
<br />9. Changes in Condition: None.
<br />10. Changes to Location or Size Information: None.
<br />11. Changes in Ownership: The current owners are Hussein and Camille Ziashakeri, who reside in the house.
<br />12. Other Changes, Additions, or Observations:
<br />Further research has yielded new information about the history of 801 Pine.
<br />For eighty-one years, this property was owned by members of the Barker family, a pioneer family of Louisville. John
<br />Barker and Emma Dixon Barker came to Louisville in the early 1880s from the coal mining region of County Durham,
<br />England. The significance of the property at 801 Pine comes in part from its ownership by English pioneers who
<br />came to Louisville from Durham, and specifically the area of Trimdon in Durham, in search of coal mining work.
<br />Research has revealed that a number of people came to Louisville from not only Trimdon, but from a specific street
<br />within Trimdon that was called Coffee Pot Row. John Barker and his siblings were among those who lived on Coffee
<br />Pot Row and its vicinity and then moved to Louisville in the second half of the 1800s.
<br />English censuses from the second half of the 1800s show that both Emma Dixon and John Barker came from large
<br />families in Trimdon. John's father was a coal miner, while Emma's father was a beerhouse keeper.
<br />John Barker (1856-1936) and Emma Dixon Barker (1863-1942) were married in County Durham in 1879 and had two
<br />young boys who both died, apparently before or soon after the time that John and Emma came to the United States,
<br />which is believed to have been in about 1881. By 1883, the Barkers were in Colorado, as their daughter, Lizzie, is
<br />shown in census records as having been born in Colorado in that year.
<br />John and Emma Barker are listed in the 1885 Colorado State Census as living in Louisville with two daughters,
<br />Lizzie, born 1883, and Rosanna (Rose), born 1885. A third daughter, Clara, would be born in 1890. The Barkers
<br />acquired the lots at 801 Pine from Jefferson Place developer Charles Welch in 1889 (although the warranty deed
<br />was not recorded with Boulder County until 1894).
<br />In the 2000 survey record for this address, the year of construction was given as approximately 1890. This
<br />conclusion was based on the fact that the house appears in the correct location on the 1893 Sanborn Map for
<br />Louisville (as well as on the two subsequent Sanborn Maps of 1900 and 1908, and on the 1908 Drumm's Wall Map).
<br />The date of construction of circa 1890 is very possible, particularly given that the Barkers, who were already
<br />residents of Louisville, acquired the lots in 1889.
<br />At least three of John Barker's siblings also settled in Louisville. His sister, Ann Barker, was married in England to
<br />Charles Dixon, who was a farmer. (It is not known whether Charles Dixon and Emma Dixon Barker were related.) His
<br />sister, Isabelle Barker, was married in England to Robert Thirlaway, a miner. Last, his brother, Thomas Barker, also
<br />came to Louisville, where he worked as a coal miner.
<br />John Barker worked in Louisville as a miner and general laborer. In an article that originally appeared in the Louisville
<br />Times in 1932, and was reprinted in that paper in 1990, it was stated that early Louisville resident C.V. Epley recalled
<br />that "Jack" Barker was one of two who "blasted the frozen ground" to start the excavation for the building of a large,
<br />two story brick building that was constructed for the Miners Trading Company at the northwest corner of Main and
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