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Louisville's Little Italy neighborhood can be seen in this excerpt of the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville. The house at 1440 Cannon is shown at Lot 7 of Block 7. r5 II 7 i II 7 ;CAL DuoN r/N f+ I fiEX MINE N9 I E. ---�._. _r, .. . _ Early Ownership 1893-1906 The developers of the Caledonia Place subdivision sold a large piece of the property to the United Coal Company in the early 1890s. The United Coal Company was the company of Caledonia Place founder James Cannon, Jr. By a deed recorded in 1893, the United Coal Company sold all of Blocks 1-2 and Blocks 6-8, located in Little Italy, to Peter James (Pietro DiGiacomo). Peter James then conveyed ownership of 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 Ricci James, by a deed recorded in 1898. It is unclear if Peter James built the house on Cannon between 1893 and 1903 or if the family was living at that address. The original date of construction of the house is not known. The County Assessor card that was completed for 1440 Cannon in 1948 notes the date of construction as 1908. However, the County has sometimes been found to be in error with respect to the date of construction of houses in the area, so other evidence is looked to. In this case, a newspaper account in 1892 and the Boulder County directory in 1896 show only that the Peter James family was living in Louisville. The 1892 article in the Boulder Daily Camera references "two families of Italians" - the Peter James family and his brother's family living together and being struck by an outbreak of diptheria in Louisville. Peter and Mary James are recorded in the 1900 census as living in Louisville with their five children and Peter James was