Historic Preservation Commission Agenda and Packet 2024 09 16

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sources. It is known that Joseph Butcher and his family lived primarily in Erie, Weld County since 1882 until his death in 1922. Census records from 1895 and 1900 during the time of ownership show the Butcher family living in Erie, where Joseph worked as a miner. It does not appear that they lived in Louisville, although Joseph and Maria's daughters Charlotte (Mrs. Peter Peltier) and Martha (Mrs. Jerry Arnold) are noted as residents of Louisville in the Louisville Times in 1890 and 1896, but their exact addresses are not identified. It remains unknown if members of the Butcher family ever lived at 1025 Front, if there was a house on the property at the time, or how the property was used. Pasquale and Christina [Jocovette] Jacovetta Ownership, 1905-1917 In 1905, Joseph and Maria Butcher sold Lot 3 Block 17 for $525 to Pasquale and Christina Jacovetta with a deed that included surface and mining and mineral rights. A building on this site is shown on the 1909 Drumm's Map of Louisville. From various Directory listings, this property has been known under different address systems as 412 Front, 520 Front, 528 Front, and 1025 Front St. " . J CAL`+E 0'6 N 1.s. S 7 1 9 i r.,614 6r f 1l i' ti �e s 4 / 111 } ];:r... 1- it-- 1.J. 1 W Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville from 1909 showing Lot 3 Block 17 of the Caledonia Place Subdivision. Pasquale Jacovetta (1877-1964) was born in Italy and immigrated to the U.S. in 1900. He came to Louisville to work as a coal miner. His brother Raffaelo (Ralph) Jacovetta (1879-1916) had come to the U.S. in 1892 and was also living in Louisville and working as a coal miner. In 1905, Pasquale married Christina (DiGiacomo) James (1884-1973). Christina's parents, Gregory DiGiacomo James (1853-1932) and Savaria Santi (1861-1938) were both born in Italy and immigrated to the U.S. in the late 1870s. They settled in Colorado by 1881 where they raised a large family with twelve children. At some point, the DiGiacomo name was anglicized to "James", so Christina and her siblings all have the surname "James."