Historic Preservation Commission Agenda and Packet 2009 07 20

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561 Lincoln Ave., Louisville, Colorado According to the Boulder County Assessor's website, the property at 561 Lincoln Ave, is currently owned by Cheri L. Degenhart and Roberta Joyce Olson and occupies Lots 1,2, and 3, Block 5, Acme Place in Louisville, The County Assessor's records state that the house was built in 1894, The house appears in the correct location on the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville at the Museum, Research indicates that this house is the oldest building on Lincoln Avenue, as well as the oldest building in the Acme Place subdivision, John Connell. Developer of Acme Place Subdivision The Acme Place subdivision was only the fourth addition to Original Louisville, John Connell platted it and recorded it with Boulder County in 1893, The area of Acme Place can best be described as covering what are now the 500 blocks of Lincoln, Grant, Jefferson, and La Farge Avenues, (Although the 500 and 600 blocks of these streets blend into one another with no cross streets, they were established completely separately and by different developers,) Acme Place was developed due to the success of the Acme Mine that was started in 1888 near what is now the corner of Roosevelt and Hutchinson, The Acme Mine was just the second successful coal mine operation in the Louisville area, and it operated for forty years, until 1928, (The first successful mining operation had been the Welch Mine east of the railroad tracks, which led to the founding of Louisville in 1878,) Louisville's very first residential areas understandably had been developed in close proximity to that first mine, With the success of the Acme Mine, John Connell developed Acme Place in 1893, and this action extended Louisville's boundaries farther to the west than it had ever been, According to the 1885 Colorado state census, John Connell was living in Louisville and his occupation was agent for the United Pacific Railroad Company, It is believed that he was involved in the establishment of the Acme Mine and may have had an ownership interest, but this could not be confirmed, (In 1920, he was a resident of Denver and was listed as being the owner of a coal mine in the federal census for that year.) Boulder County Property records indicate that the land that Connell used to establish Acme Place had been acquired directly from the Acme Coal Mining Company, Christopher Hutchinson. 1894-1902 Christopher Hutchinson purchased this property from John Connell in 1894, Hutchinson and his wife, Margaret Makin, had been married in 1891, It appears that it was they who built the house in 1894, which is the year of construction given by Boulder County, (Although Boulder County records have sometimes been found to be in error with respect to year of construction of properties, sometimes giving the date as later than what other