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916 Main Street <br />Hartronft Associates, pc <br />1.2.3 LEGAL DESCRIPTION <br />Historic Structure Assessment <br />October 10, 2023 <br />Lot 9, Less the north 15 Ft., Block 1, Town of Louisville, County of Boulder, State of Colorado. <br />2.0 HISTORY AND USE <br />Information below is excerpt from City of Louisville Historic Museum report, Department of Cultural <br />Services, City of Louisville, Colorado April 2023, by Bridget Bacon. <br />Summary: John Madonna's Bug Dust Pool Hall at 916 Main is remembered for its high -stakes, <br />illegal barbuit dice games in the 1950s and 1960s. Thousands of dollars would change hands at <br />these secret games taking place at a time when Louisville was still a relatively out-of-the-way <br />small town with a large Italian community. The building at 916 Main was a location in the state <br />where the Smaldone Brothers, who led organized crime in Denver and Colorado, had lucrative <br />gambling interests and were caught running a rigged table with magnetized dice. From 1971 to <br />1997, 916 Main was the location of the Louisville Times newspaper business and operations. <br />Most recently, it has been the location of Creative Framing & Art Gallery. <br />(Images in this report are from the Louisville Historical Museum collections unless otherwise <br />noted. Denver Post articles cited were accessed at Family History & Genealogy Search <br />Genealogy Bank. Denver Rocky Mountain News and Boulder Daily Camera items cited were <br />accessed at Boulder's Carnegie Library for Local History. Louisville Times articles cited were <br />accessed at Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection.) <br />History of Site Prior to Current Building <br />This property is part of the original "Plat of the Town of Louisville" registered by Louis Nawatny <br />in 1878. The history of the property at 916 Main is interconnected with the histories of the <br />properties at 920 and 924 Main. As was noted in the Museum's report on 920 Main & 924 <br />Main, the house at 924 Main (which has been remodeled) was the home of the related <br />Hutchinson, Clarkson, and Hancock families for nearly 60 years. That report is accessible on the <br />City of Louisville website here: 920, 924 Main St History - Laserfiche WebLink (louisvilleco.gov). <br />In 1947, Amelia Clarkson Hancock was preparing to move to Denver and she sold her family's <br />property to G.R. & Marguerite Henning. (According to an item in the Louisville Times on <br />11 /20/1947, they purchased it for their daughter and son-in-law to live in. However, for <br />whatever reason, that did not materialize.) In early 1948, the Hennings sold the property to <br />John Madonna, Jr. <br />John "Bug Dust" Madonna, Jr. Ownership (1948-1953, 1959-1967) Joe Colacci Ownership <br />(1953-1959) <br />Date of Construction and Early History of the Building <br />John Madonna (1918-2022) purchased the Hutchinson -Clarkson -Hancock home at 924 Main in <br />1948, then transferred part of the property to his brother-in-law, Joe D'Amato. The original <br />home at 924 Main became the D'Amato family home, and D'Amato constructed a building at <br />Page 5of51 <br />