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Resource Number: 5BL8024 <br />Temporary Resource Number: N/A Architectural Inventory Form <br />(Page 3 of 5) <br />V. HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS <br />31. Original use(s): Single Dwelling <br />32. Intermediate use(s): Single Dwelling <br />33. Current use(s): Single Dwelling <br />34. Site type(s): Residence <br />35. Historical Background <br />This house was built circa 1893, and has been used as a single family residence from that time to the present. <br />Throughout most of the twentieth century, this property has been home to just two families - the Sirokmans, and <br />the Escobedos. George Sirokman came to Louisville to work in the coal mines sometime before 1892. John <br />Sirokman, probably a brother, was also located in Louisville by 1898. George Sirokman, and his wife Annie, lived <br />in a house on LaFarge Avenue, in the block between Walnut and Spruce, and later in a house on Lincoln Avenue. <br />In the 1920s, this house became the residence of George Sirokman Jr., and his wife Margaret. George Jr. worked <br />variously as a miner and as a carpenter. The house stayed in the Sirokman family until they sold to its current <br />owners, Albert and Rita Escobedo, in the late 1950s. <br />Raised in Walsenburg, Colorado, Albert Escobedo came to Louisville as a young man where he met his future wife, <br />Rita Lorenzi. Rita's dad was a coal miner. She had come to Louisville with her family from the Spanish Peaks area <br />of southern Colorado in 1936. Albert and Edith were married in 1947. Albert worked as a heavy equipment <br />operator for Boulder Excavating for many years. <br />36. Sources of Information <br />(Boulder County) "Real Estate Appraisal Card - Urban Master", on file at the Boulder Carnegie Library. <br />Escobedo, Albert, and Escobedo, Rita. Oral interview with Carl McWilliams, April 14, 2000. <br />Polk'sBoulder County Directory [generally published annually], Denver, Kansas City, and Salt Lake City: R.L. Polk <br />and Company Publishers. <br />Polk'sLongmont City Directory, [generally published annually], Denver, Kansas City, and Salt Lake City: R.L. Polk <br />and Company, Publishers, 1966 - 1997. <br />Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, dated August 1893, November 1900, and August 1908. <br />