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<br />1117 Jefferson Avenue Historical Information <br /> <br />(Many thanks to Bridget Bacon) <br /> <br />CAPITOL Hill ADDITION <br />. <br /> <br />J.e. Willia'ms, who was a mine superintendent with the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, and <br />Irving Elberson, who was a banker, were the developers of the Capitol Hill Addition. The plat for <br />this addition was filed with the County in 1904 <br /> <br />1117 JEFFERSON AVENUE (prior to 1939, address was 618 Jefferson) <br /> <br />Ball Family <br /> <br />Property Purchased 1908 by Harrison & Nettie Ball from CW and Mary J. Taylor. <br /> <br />(On the same .date in 1908, the Taylors also purchased Lot 1 et al from JC Williams and they <br />owned that parcel 1908-1921. This would be 1101 Jefferson today. Because of purchasing a <br />larger area and selling off part of it (1117 Jefferson) right away, this could suggest that a house <br />had not yet been built at 1117 Jefferson in 1908.) <br /> <br />County says home was built in 1910. However, the house appears in the right location on the <br />1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville, so Bridget Bacon would put the year of construction at <br />1909. <br /> <br />Harry Ball"was' a store manager in Louisville and, later, in Boulder. Directories indicate that he <br />ran the Rockv Mountain Stores building at Pine and Main, and census records from 1910 <br />indicate that he was the manager of the State Mercantile. <br /> <br />Harry and Nettie Ball had a daughter, Ethel Ball (Mary Ethel Ball), who graduated from Louisville <br />High School in. 1910, then from CU in 1914. She became Dean of Women at CU. According to <br />Wikipedia (and verified in other sources): "As student affairs offices began to change and <br />administrators no longer used "Dean of Men" and "Advisor of Men" as their titles, the <br />organization [National Association of Student Personnel Administrators] followed suit. Mary <br />Ethel Ball, acti'ng dean of students at the University of Colorado, became the first female <br />"institutiona~ representative," although women had participated in meetings since the 20s." In <br />1960, she received the Robert l. Stearns award for "extraordinary achievement or service" on <br />the part of CU faculty and staff. She passed away in 1983 in Boulder. <br /> <br />. . <br />Harry Ball was born 1866, Nettie was born 1871, and Ethel, or Mary Ethel, was born 1892. A son, <br />Leslie, was born 1894 but evidently passed away between the times of the 1900 and 1910 <br />censuses. <br /> <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />