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SK,CY In addition to Eliseo and Annie Jacoe having his brother (Frank Jacoe) and her sister (Katie Jordinelli Jacoe) living right next door at 1109 Main, Annie and Katie's parents (and later their sister and her family) lived behind 1101 Main at 1100 La Farge. Also, the third Jacoe brother, Robert, lived at 1045 La Farge, which was catty -corner from the Jordinellis. This arrangement was similar to the other family complexes of homes that families created in Louisville. The saucer magnolia tree that planted on the south side of the house at 1101 Main has garnered regular attention in the Louisville Times and even statewide. The earliest Times article found, from April 16, 1942, stated that Louisvlle claimed the only blooming magnolia tree in Colorado, that it first bloomed in 1941, and that people even came from Denver to see it in bloom. The article also stated it had come from a nursery in Michigan and that "Mr. and Mrs. E. Jacoe" had planted it by their house in about 1936. According to a search in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection, the Times also highlighted the tree and its blooms in 1946, 1972, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1981, and 2003. The 2003 item stated that it was "the largest of its species in Colorado and thus earned the title of state champion tree," having been nominated by the City of Louisville. Annie Jordinelli Jacoe passed away in 1954. Eliseo Jacoe sold the house the same year and went to live at his son's home in Louisville. In 1958, Eliseo Jacoe announced his retirement for health reasons after 35 years of operating the store, and passed away not long after. (Eliseo and Annie Jacoe's son, Pasqual, became a chemist and authority on uranium mine research who, at the time of his death in 1972, was the Director of the Occupational and Radiological Division of the Colorado State Department of Health, according to his obituary in the Louisville Times.) Lester and Doris Else Ownership, 1954-1959 In 1954, Eliseo Jacoe sold 1101 Main to Lester Else (1899-1978) and Doris Else (1906-1992). At the same time, Frank Jacoe conveyed his ownership of two -and -a -half feet of his property at 1109 Main to the Elses. (This meant that the legal description of 1101 Main was now all of Lot 1 9