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Bridget Bacon Louisville Historical Museum Department of Cultural Services City of Louisville, Colorado April 2022 LCitv0f Loui -sville COLOR DO • SINCE 187R 1021 La Farge Ave. History Legal Description: N 17 FT LOT 6 & LOT 7 LESS N 9 FT, BLOCK 4, BARCLAY PLACE Year of Construction: circa 1906 Summary: The intriguing earlier history of this house is intertwined with the histories of other houses that E.J. Di Francia bought in the early 1900s. The family story is that he acquired houses to be his daughters' dowries and for them to live in, and the story is supported by the historical evidence. However, the evidence also suggests that only one married daughter lived in any of the houses before he passed away in 1918 and his wife, Maria, had to sell the houses. The house, and this block in general, are strongly tied to Louisville's Italian residents. However, the residents with the longest tenure of this particular home on the block were Stephen and Winifred Davis, who were from Wales. He was killed in the 1936 Monarch Mine Explosion. Winifred continued to own and live in the house until the early 1960s. Development of Barclay Place The Colorado Mortgage and Investment Co., Limited, a corporation organized under the laws of Great Britain and doing business in Colorado, in 1897 platted the Barclay Place subdivision in which these buildings are located. Di Francia Family Ownership, 1905-1927 Eusebio Giuseppe "Joe" Di Francia (often referred to as E.J. Di Francia) purchased a parcel consisting of Lots 5-8, Block 4, Barclay Place by a deed recorded in 1905. The history of this particular house comes with a family story, which is that descendants of the Di Francia family, whose primary home in the early 1900s was the large brick house next door at 1045 La Farge, years ago told the current owners of 1045 La Farge that the three small 1