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Bridget Bacon <br />Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />November 2018 <br />L <br />Cityof <br />Louisville <br />COLORADO • SINCE 1878 <br />307 Eisenhower, Louisville, Colorado <br />Legal Description: Lot 11, Block 3, Hunter Ridge Replat <br />Previous Address: 8927 South Boulder Rd. The house was part of the Hocheder farm that had <br />the legal description of the W % of the SW 1/4 of Sec 5, T1S R69W. <br />Year of Construction: 1922 <br />Summary: This house was historically the family farmhouse located on the Hocheder family <br />farm that the Hocheder/Kneebone family has owned since 1922. The farm was sold to <br />developers in 1983 and the Hunter's Ridge development was created. The Hocheder family <br />retained ownership of this farmhouse at 307 Eisenhower at that time. <br />Harper Ownership of Farmland, circa 1875-1922 <br />The John Harper, Sr. family came to the Louisville area in the early 1870s and acquired over <br />1000 acres of farmland. (The Harper family is today mainly associated with the reservoir that <br />they created in the 1890s that was later expanded to become today's Harper Lake near the <br />corner of McCaslin Blvd. and South Boulder Road.) <br />In 1922, the heirs of John Harper, Sr. and Margaret Harper, who were their son John Harper Jr., <br />the widow of their son George Harper (Mary McCune Harper), and their daughter, Jean Harper <br />Otis, sold this large parcel of farmland (with the legal description of the west % of the SW % of <br />Sec. 5, T1S R69W) to Frank Hocheder, Sr. <br />Hocheder/Kneebone Ownership, 1922-present (96 years); Discussion of Date of Construction <br />In 1922, Frank Hocheder, Sr. (1884-1947) purchased this farmland, consisting of 80 acres, from <br />the Harper family. (In the Louisville area, "Hocheder" typically has been pronounced as "HO- <br />hader.") <br />1 <br />