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Resource Number: 5BL925 <br />Temporary Resource Number: 157508425002 <br />Boulder County "Real Estate Appraisal Card — Urban Master," on file at the Carnegie Branch Library for Local History <br />in Boulder, Colorado. <br />Boulder County Clerk & Recorder's Office and Assessor's Office public records, accessed through <br />http://recorder.bouldercountv.orq. <br />Directories of Louisville residents and businesses on file at the Louisville Historical Museum. <br />Census records and other records accessed through www.ancestrv.com . <br />Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville, Colorado, 1909 <br />Louisville building permit files <br />Sanborn Insurance Maps for Louisville, Colorado, 1893, 1900, and 1908 <br />Green Mountain Cemetery Index to Interment Books, 1904-1925, Boulder Genealogical Society, 2006. <br />Carnegie Branch Library for Local History, Boulder Colorado, online catalog records accessed at <br />http://boulderlibrarv.ora/carneaie/. <br />Archival materials on file at the Louisville Historical Museum, including written undated piece by Louisville resident <br />Nelle Wolfer Willis (1890-1976) on the subject of newspapers in Louisville. <br />Interview conducted by Museum Coordinator Bridget Bacon with Lois Chiolino Tesone, April 28, 2009. <br />13. National Register Eligibility Assessment: <br />Eligible Not eligible X Need data <br />Explain: While the property has sufficient integrity and significance to be a contributing resource to a potential <br />historic district, it lacks sufficient integrity and significance to be individually eligible to the National Register. <br />The property has integrity of location, setting, feeling and workmanship. Integrity of design is compromised, but <br />not completely lost, due to modified window openings and sizes. The building's size and shape remain intact, <br />so some integrity of design exists. Integrity of materials is lost due to replacement siding, windows and roofing. <br />Integrity of association is lost due to the loss of association with the local newspapers that were written and <br />printed there. <br />13A. Colorado State Register: Not eligible X <br />13B. Louisville Local Landmark: Eligible X <br />13C. Historic District Potential: Jefferson Place is eligible as a State Register and local historic district. There is <br />potential for a National Register historic district. This property is non-contributing. <br />Discuss: This building is being recorded as part of a 2010-2011 intensive -level historical and architectural <br />survey of Jefferson Place, Louisville's first residential subdivision, platted in 1880. The purpose of the survey is <br />to determine if there is potential for National Register, State Register or local historic districts. Jefferson Place <br />is eligible as a State Register historic district under Criterion A, Ethnic Heritage, European, for its association <br />with European immigrants who first lived here and whose descendants continued to live here for over fifty <br />years. The period of significance for the State Register historic district is 1881 — 1980. Jefferson Place is <br />potentially eligible as a National Register historic district under Criterion A, Ethnic Heritage, European. <br />However it needs data to determine dates of some modifications, and to more definitely establish the significant <br />impacts of various European ethnic groups on the local culture of Louisville. The period of significance of a <br />National Register district is 1881 — 1963. Jefferson Place is eligible as a local Louisville historic district under <br />local Criterion B, Social, as it exemplifies the cultural and social heritage of the community. <br />European immigrant families flocked to Colorado coal mining communities, including Louisville, in the late <br />nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in search of economic opportunities they could not find in their own <br />countries. Louisville's Welch Coal Mine, along with other mines in the area, recruited skilled workers from <br />western Europe. In the early years before 1900, most of the miners who lived in Jefferson Place came from <br />English-speaking countries. <br />Immigrants from England brought a strong tradition and expertise in coal mining. The English are widely <br />credited with developing the techniques of coal mining that were used locally, and they taught these techniques <br />to other miners. The British mining culture was instilled in the early Colorado coal mines. English immigrants <br />also brought expertise in other necessary skills such as blacksmithing and chain forging. <br />4 <br />