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Bridget Bacon, Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />September 2019; updated January 2020 <br />L <br />City,f <br />Louisville <br />COLORADO 'SINCE 1878 <br />1133 Main St. History <br />Legal Description: Lots 9 & 10, Block 2, Barclay Place <br />Year of Construction: 1904 <br />Summary: This home has been consecutively owned by three Italian families: the Tomoro <br />family, the LaSalle family, and (since 1926) the DelPizzo family. The house and this area of Main <br />Street in general are strongly tied to Louisville's Italian residents. This house still exhibits <br />evidence of traditional Italian cultural practices, and the property includes what is believed to <br />be the last beehive -shaped traditional ash pit in Louisville. <br />Development of Barclay Place <br />The Colorado Mortgage and Investment Co., Limited, a corporation organized under the laws of <br />Great Britain and doing business in Colorado, in 1897 platted the Barclay Place subdivision in <br />which this property is located. The subdivision was an early addition to Original Louisville. <br />Tomoro Family Ownership, 1904-1908; Date of Construction <br />Filomena Tomoro (sometimes spelled as Tomaro) purchased the parcel from the developer in <br />January 1904. Her husband was Carlo Tomoro, who had come to Louisville in the 1890s. <br />A document recorded with Boulder County in October 1904 shows that Filomena Tomoro <br />granted a chattel mortgage to Phillip Latronico in exchange for what appears to have been a <br />$375 loan. The chattel mortgage covered the contents of the house at 1133 Main. Significantly, <br />the document referred to the house having had three rooms at that time. This is consistent <br />with the DelPizzo family's theory that the house originally consisted of the front part of the <br />house. <br />Newspapers in Lafayette and Denver reported in June 1908 that Carlo Tomoro shot and killed <br />Nick Martello, who was described as being 42 years old and, in two of the accounts, as being <br />Filomena Tomoro's brother (although this relationship could not be separately confirmed). The <br />1 <br />