Laserfiche WebLink
Bridget Bacon <br />Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Cultural Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />April 2023 <br />CityLL <br />."f Louisville <br />L D -SINCE 1878 <br />1045 Front Street History <br />Legal Description: Lot 1, Block 17, Caledonia Place Addition <br />Date of Construction: circa 1905 <br />Summary: This home has been consecutively owned by members of the same Scarano / LaSalle <br />/ DeSantis / Winslow family from 1909 until 2023, for a total of 114 years. The owners for <br />almost the entirety of that time were women of the family who were the sole owners: Rosa <br />Scarano LaSalle, her daughter Adeline LaSalle DeSantis, and her daughter Doris DeSantis <br />Winslow. <br />(Denver Post articles cited were accessed at Family History & Genealogy Search I <br />GenealogyBank. Louisville Times articles cited were accessed at Colorado Historic Newspapers <br />Collection.) <br />Development of Caledonia Place Addition <br />The subdivision in which 1045 Front is located is Caledonia Place. This subdivision was platted <br />and recorded with Boulder County in 1890 by James Cannon, Howard Morris, and Henry <br />Brooks. It was the fourth addition to original Louisville, which had been platted in 1878. (The <br />lots in Caledonia Place were larger than most of the lots in subdivisions in Old Town Louisville <br />that were platted later, and the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville shows that most houses <br />were each on one lot as opposed to other parts of Louisville, where it was more common to <br />have a house on about two lots.) <br />Earliest Owners; Date of Construction <br />In 1892, John Palmer purchased Lot 1, Block 17, in Caledonia Place. However, property records <br />recorded with the County indicate that he apparently defaulted on a loan that was secured by <br />the property. The result was that in 1894, Thomas Autrey acquired Lot 1 at a Trustee's Sale. <br />1 <br />