834 Lincoln Ave History - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

2 After Eusebio Di Francia died in 1918, leaving a large family, his wife Maria (1869-1953) is known to have sold off the properties and moved to Denver. This was one of those properties. She sold it in 1920 to Nestor Foss. Foss/Pollock Family Ownership of 834 Lincoln Property, 1920-2019; Date of Construction Nestor Foss (1871-1939) purchased 834 Lincoln in 1920. He had been born in Kville, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden and came to the U.S. in the 1880s. He married Elizabeth “Bessie” Tovado (1881-1926) of Superior in 1899 and they had six children, some of whom lived in the original house at 834 Lincoln. Directory records and 1930 federal census records show the Foss family members to be living in this location. Nestor Foss worked as a coal miner. It is believed that the Foss family lived in the house that had been built on the front of the property and that at some point, perhaps after Nestor’s death in 1939 and after son James Foss was shown as living in the house in the 1940 census, it was torn down. Foss family descendants today believe it to have been a two-story house located at the front of the lots. A smaller structure at the back of the property remained and is shown here in a 1948 County Assessor photo. A notation added to the card in 1961 states: “This old house is not being used for anything but storage.” In the back left of this photo, one can see how close Red Men’s Hall (named for the fraternal organization called the Improved Order of Red Men, which owned it) was to 834 Lincoln. It was a large, two-story structure located on the southwest corner of Grant and Walnut from the 1890s until the 1950s. The youngest child of the Foss family was Frances Alvina Foss (1916-1982). In 1936, she married Robert Pollock. Alvina Foss Pollock ended up as the owner of the parcel at 834 Lincoln after the deaths of her parents, Nestor and Bessie Foss, but specific Boulder County records documenting this ownership transfer could not be located.