Historic Preservation Commission Agenda and Packet 2025 11 17

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reports in the Louisville Times as living on Walnut. Victor Lehti was an immigrant from Finland and worked as a blacksmith at the Shamrock Mine. He passed away suddenly in 1946 from a brain hemorrhage. His widow, Mildred sold the property in 1948 to Henry Dhieux and Julienne Michel Dhieux. A few months later, the Dhieuxs sold the property to Julienne's sister Adolphine and her husband, Leo Junior. Both the Dhieux and Junior families are noted as living at various addresses in Louisville, leaving the Louisville Heights property undeveloped until 1951. Edward L. Fievet and Naomi Triplett Fievet Ownership, 1951-1969 In 1951, Edward Fievet and Naomi Triplett Fievet purchased Lots 9-10, Block 1 in Louisville Heights from Leo and Adolphine Junior. Edward Fievet (1921-1985) was born in Detroit, MI in 1921 but his parents soon moved to Louisville where his sister Elsie (1922-2001) was born in 1922. His father, Lambert Fievet was a French immigrant who came to the US and found work as a coal miner. Edward's mother, Fannie Warembourg (1901-1930), grew up in Louisville and was also of French descent. Her parents, August Warembourg (1875-1930) and Fannie LeComte (1882-1967) immigrated to the US as children and moved to Louisville in the 1880s. Edward's early life was difficult due to the violent and abusive nature of his father. Lambert Fievet had been married previously from 1916-1919 to Marie Deliere who filed for divorce in 1919 due to "repeated acts of cruelty on her husband's part" according to a notice in the Boulder Daily Camera. Edward and Elsie's mother, Fannie, died in 1930 at the age of 29, when Edward was nine and Elsie was eight years old. Lambert Fievet worked as a coal miner and foreman at the Monarch Mine and soon married again to Mary Glass [possibly Giles] in 1931. The family lived in Kimbertown (near Frenchtown) in the southeast end of Louisville until they moved to Denver a few years later. Mary also had two younger children from a previous marriage — Lillian and Lambert, Jr. (his name was originally Edward, but was changed to Lambert, Jr. to avoid confusion with his new older stepbrother). According to accounts in the Rocky Mountain News and other Denver newspapers, Lambert Fievet continued to abuse his new wife and children until a fateful day in September 1936 when Mary Fievet shot and killed him at their Denver home. A sensationalist trial soon followed with Mary Fievet's arrest and accounts of Lambert's cruelty reported in the local newspapers. The four Fievet children were frequently photographed together with their mother and grandmother, and their circumstances were avidly reported on. After four months in jail, Mary Fievet was acquitted on a claim of self-defense.