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LaSalle Family Ownership, 1908-1926 In August 1908, Nicholas LaSalle (1885-1916) of Louisville purchased this property at 1133 Main from Filomena Tomoro. He had been born in Italy and came to the U.S. as a young boy in about 1889 with his parents and siblings. The family first settled in Marshall before moving to Louisville. The 1910 federal census records show Nicholas LaSalle to be living in this house that he owned on North Main Street, and the other people listed near him in the census are known to have been living in the same block of Main Street. He was 25 at the time and living with his widowed mother, Mary, age 53, and his brother, Joe, age 32. Nicholas was working as a miner, while his brother was working as a bartender in a saloon. In 1916, Nicholas LaSalle died at the age of about 31. His mother died the same year. According to Boulder County filings, his heirs were his sisters Rose LaSalle Jordinelli and Mary LaSalle Latronico. In another example of family members living near one another in Louisville, his sisters both lived very nearby to 1133 Main. In 1926, the two sisters sold 1133 Main to Rose Scrano DelPizzo. DelPizzo Family Ownership, 1926-current Rose Scrano (sometimes written as "Scarno" and later changed to "Scran") DelPizzo (1906- 1952) purchased this property in 1926 on behalf of herself and her husband, Joseph DelPizzo (1898-1980). They may have also rented the house before buying it. Rose Scrano was born in Louisville to Italian -born parents. She and her parents and siblings lived up one block from this house on Main Street (believed to be the house at 1237 Main). Rose DelPizzo purchased the house from Rose Jordinelli, Mary Latronico, and the estate of Nicholas LaSalle. There were many family connections between the Louisville families of DelPizzo, Scrano, Caranci, LaSalle, Latronico, Jordinelli, and Jacoe, and others, all being related by blood or marriage and living near each other. Rose's husband, Joseph DelPizzo, came from the small village of Taranta Peligna, Chieti, Abruzzo, in Italy. He served in the Italian Army in World War I, then emigrated to the United States in early 1922. He came directly to Louisville to join his brother, Nicola DelPizzo, whose home for decades was at 1000 Main Street. 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. 3