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Denver was only a few years old. They were early settlers of Colorado and of Boulder County. They had eight children who survived to adulthood. Hannah was widowed in 1898. Although evidence could not be found that would indicate that Hannah herself lived at 1000 Main, there is evidence that her son, Robert Wilson (1866-1926), did live at 1000 Main with his family. He is listed as residing there in the 1918 Louisville directory. Also, at the time of the 1920 census, he was living in the house with his wife Nettie (1870-1948) and their youngest children Verna, Joseph, and Gladys. At the time, he worked as a pump man in a coal mine. (The residents of 1000 Main in 1910 could not be definitively identified.) Robert Wilson died in 1926. The same year, his mother sold 1000 Main. DelPizzo Family Ownership, 1926-2019 In 1926, Nicola DelPizzo (sometimes spelled as Del Pizzo) (1895-1970) and Laurina Mancini DelPizzo (1895-1981) purchased 1000 Main. This was the same year when Nicola's brother and his wife, Joseph and Rose DelPizzo, purchased their home at 1133 Main. The two brothers came from the small village of Taranta Peligna, Chieti, Abruzzo, in Italy. They were among a group of people who emigrated from Taranta Peligna and came to Louisville in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Some of the surnames of those who came from that village to Louisville, besides DelPizzo, were Demarco, DiDonato, Lippis, Madonna, Merlino, Natale, and Santilli. Nicola and Laurina married in Italy in 1919 and then had their first child, Anthony ("Tony") in 1920 while still in Italy. Less than a month afterTony's birth, Nicola emigrated to the United States and to Louisville to join Laurina's uncle. His brother Joseph followed him to Louisville in early 1922. Laurina and 3-year-old Tony then came together to Louisville in 1923. Nicola and Laurina had three more children in Louisville: Albert (1924-2007); Frank (1929-2009); and Helen (born 1930). Nicola, like his brother in Louisville, worked as a timber man in the coal mines. The stucco exterior of the house at 1000 Main strongly resembles the stucco exterior of Nicola's brother's home at 1133 Main. According to an item in the Louisville Times on Sept. 29 1938, the house at 1133 Main was remodeled, and stucco was added to it, in that year. It is also separately known that a local Italian -born craftsman added the stucco at 1133 Main. It is very possible that both houses owned by the two brothers were remodeled and stuccoed at around the same time. During World War II, oldest sons Tony and Albert served in the Armed Forces. Frank served during the Korean War era. 3