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Bridget Bacon <br />Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />January 2020 <br />LCityqf <br />Louisville <br />COLORADO • SINCE I s 7 s <br />908 Rex St., Louisville, Colorado <br />Legal Description: Lots 3, 4, & 5, Block 8, Murphy Place Subdivision <br />Year of Construction: 1924 <br />Summary: This house is located in Louisville's Frenchtown neighborhood. As was the case for <br />almost every house in Frenchtown, it was associated with a French family. The extended <br />Gosselin family from France, which included family members with the last names of Mancini <br />and Wisek, had the house at 908 Rex constructed in 1924 and owned it until 1997. <br />History of Murphy Place Subdivision <br />Peter F. Murphy platted the subdivision of Murphy Place in 1907. He did so as President of the <br />Louisville Realty & Securities Company. It became the location of Louisville's Frenchtown <br />neighborhood, described in the lead article of the Spring 2016 issue of the Louisville Historian, <br />"Being French in Louisville," located here: <br />https://www.louisvilleco.gov/Home/ShowDocument?id=9908 . <br />Gosselin/Mancini/Wisek Ownership, 1913-1997; Date of Construction <br />Raymond Gosselin (1872-1939) acquired Lots 3 and 4 from the Louisville Realty & Securities <br />Company in 1914. He and his wife, Julia Caron Hermignies Gosselin (1872-1967), had come <br />from France in 1903 and settled in Louisville and in the Frenchtown neighborhood in about <br />1908. <br />Their daughter, Margaret Gosselin (1894-1976), married Thomas Williams in 1914 and had two <br />children, Jane and Harold with him. They also lived in Frenchtown. Records of what happened <br />to Thomas Williams could not be located, but in July 1923, Margaret remarried to Tony Mancini <br />1 <br />