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Resource Number: 5BL7965 Temporary Resource Number: NIA Architectural Inventory Form (Page 3 of 5) V. HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS 31. Original use(s): Domestic I Hotel 32. Intermediate use(s):Single Dwelling 33. Current use(s): Single Dwelling 34. Site type(s): Residence 35. Historical Background Sanborn fire insurance maps provide evidence that this lot was developed sometime prior to 1893. The 1893 and 1900 Sanborn maps both depict a dwelling in the same location as the current residence, along with four secondary buildings, oriented along Elm Street southeast of the house. Three of these may have been small dwellings for miners. By 1908, according to that year's Sanborn map, the dwelling had been enlarged, and three of the secondary building's had been removed. Mrs. Virginia Chavez, who has lived and owned here since 1958, related that the property served as a miners boardinghouse in the early days. In the 1940s and 1950s, this was the residence of Charles B. and Dora Rickman. Charles worked as a conveyor man at the Centennial Mine. In 1958, the Rickmans sold the property to Andrew C. and Virginia K. Chavez. Andrew worked as a heavy equipment operator until he passed away, tragically, in an automobile accident in the early 1980s. Virginia worked at Cowboy Cleaners in Broomfield for many years, before retiring in 1967. The Chavez' raised a family of four boys and one girl here. I 36. Sources of Information Chavez, Virginia. Oral interview with Carl McWilliams, January 13, 2000. Conarroe, Carolyn. The Louisville Story, Louisville: Louisville Times Inc., 1978. Polk's Boulder County Directory[generally published annually], Denver, Kansas City, and Salt Lake City: R.L. Polk and Company Publishers. Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, dated August 1893, November 1900, and August 1908. Smith, Phyliss. Once A Coal Miner: The Story of Colorado's Northern Coal Field, Boulder: Pruett Publishing Company, 1989.