Laserfiche WebLink
Bridget Bacon <br />Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />March 2010; updated December 2021 <br />Cityof <br />Louisville <br />COLORADO • SINCE 187E <br />301 Spruce St. History <br />Legal Description: Lots 12-16, Block 5, Louisville Heights subdivision <br />Year of Construction: 1908 <br />Summary: This house, the longtime home of three generations of the Thompson Family <br />of Louisville for a period of over 50 years, was one of six historic homes and six <br />commercial buildings in Louisville that were selected to be added to the National <br />Register of Historic Places in 1986. (Although the house was referred to as the Robinson <br />House when it was added to the National Register, no connection to a person named <br />Robinson was identified as part of that listing or found in research conducted since that <br />time. It would more accurately be called the Thompson House.) <br />Another owner, Charles Grosso, was the one-time owner of the Old Louisville Inn (now <br />740 Front), the White Front Inn (now Henry's), and the Track Inn (now Casa Alegre). <br />Development of the Louisville Heights Subdivision; Date of Construction <br />The Louisville Heights Addition in which this house sits was first developed in 1904 by <br />the Colorado Mortgage & Investment Co. Ltd. In 1905, the developers conveyed lots in <br />the Louisville Heights subdivision to two Louisville residents and real estate business <br />partners: attorney John Affolter and Dr. Charles Wolfer. John Affolter died in 1907 at the <br />age of 29. <br />Dr. Charles F. Wolfer, Nellie Affolter (as the wife and heir of John Affolter), John Barnd, <br />and James Miller sold Lots 12-18 in 1908 to John C. Thompson and Margaret "Maggie" <br />Boyd Thompson. Barnd and Miller had been John Affolter's law partners. <br />Both the Boulder County website and the 1948 Boulder County Assessor Card for this <br />property give 1908 as the date of construction. Since Boulder County records are <br />sometimes in error with respect to the construction dates of historic buildings in <br />Louisville, other evidence must also be looked to. In this case, the Drumm's 1909 Map of <br />1 <br />