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Bridget Bacon, Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />September 2022 <br />LLCityof <br />Louisville <br />LORAD • SINCE 1878 <br />1209 Main St. History <br />Legal Description: Lots 3, 4, 5, and 6, Block 1, Nicola Di Giacomo Addition, Louisville, Colorado <br />Date of Construction: circa 1909 <br />Summary: This was the first Louisville home of Mike Colacci, who with his wife Mary founded <br />Louisville's Blue Parrot Restaurant while they lived at 1209 Main. Mike Colacci's brother, Jim, <br />who co -owned it from the start, became the sole owner of the house in 1922 and lived there. <br />The property was the site of Jim Colacci's poultry business as well as the house being the likely <br />site of Colacci's bootlegging activities during Prohibition. <br />Development of the Nicola Di Giacomo Addition <br />This area of Louisville was named the Nicola Di Giacomo Addition, having been platted by <br />Nicola Di Giacomo in 1907. Nicola Di Giacomo farmed this area before filing the plat for a <br />subdivision. This addition consists of 4 % blocks that stretch across the north end of Old Town <br />of Louisville. (On the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville, Nicola Di Giacomo is also shown as <br />the owner of the additional property where Louisville Middle School is now located, and of the <br />residential area that now extends behind the school and north of it up to South Boulder Road.) <br />DiGiacomo was born in Italy in 1852 and immigrated to the US in about 1882. <br />Colacci Family Ownership, 1908-1959; Discussion of Date of Construction <br />Arcangelo Michele "Mike" Colacci (1886-1970) and Vincenzo James "Jim" Colacci (1884-1964) <br />were brothers who had emigrated from Bojano, Campobasso, Italy (Mike reportedly in 1905- <br />1907, and Jim reportedly in 1908). The two purchased the property at 1209 Main in 1908 and <br />built the house soon after. This house at 1209 Main was the first Louisville home of Mike <br />Colacci, the founder of the Blue Parrot Restaurant that he and his wife, Mary, started in 1919 <br />and that put Louisville on the map as being a restaurant town with Italian food that drew diners <br />from all over the Denver area and beyond. <br />13 <br />