Laserfiche WebLink
Louisville's Little Italy neighborhood can be seen in this excerpt of the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of <br />Louisville. The house at 1440 Cannon is shown at Lot 7 of Block 7. <br />9 2 1 <br />3 <br />Early Ownership 1893-1906 <br />The developers of the Caledonia Place subdivision sold a large piece of the property to the United Coal <br />Company in the early 1890s. The United Coal Company was the company of Caledonia Place founder <br />James Cannon, Jr. By a deed recorded in 1893, the United Coal Company sold all of Blocks 1-2 and Blocks <br />6-8, located in Little Italy, to Peter James (Pietro DiGiacomo). Peter James then conveyed ownership of <br />Lots 2-4 and 7-12 of Block 7 and all of Block 8 of Caledonia Place, located in Little Italy, to his wife, Mary <br />Ricci James, by a deed recorded in 1898. <br />It is unclear if Peter James built the house on Cannon between 1893 and 1903 or if the family was living <br />at that address. The original date of construction of the house is not known. The County Assessor card <br />that was completed for 1440 Cannon in 1948 notes the date of construction as 1908. However, the <br />County has sometimes been found to be in error with respect to the date of construction of houses in <br />the area, so other evidence is looked to. In this case, a newspaper account in 1892 and the Boulder <br />County directory in 1896 show only that the Peter James family was living in Louisville. The 1892 article <br />in the Boulder Daily Camera references "two families of Italians" - the Peter James family and his <br />brother's family living together and being struck by an outbreak of diptheria in Louisville. Peter and Mary <br />James are recorded in the 1900 census as living in Louisville with their five children and Peter James was <br />L <br />