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4.+444+.44. +4+44+4444.4.44.4.44 Foy++++ 4.+ Y3 14+ :•.; +++ <br />4 <br />4. <br />" iamen �iogtt1 tttertatners" <br />+ Music for Dance, Concert, Etc. 4` <br />+ + <br />4 LOCAL 2d 4' <br />4. MUSICIANS c <br />4. <br />•1' An e10 F. Romeo, M r. II Chas. G. Romeo <br />4 Phone Fr. 1211-W III , Conductor 4* <br />4* 1480 Monroe St. Denver, Colorado + <br /><. 3 4, <br />An article clipped from a 1978 Louisville Times issue (the exact date of which is <br />unknown) highlighted this home as being one of Louisville's historic buildings. The <br />source for much of the information was Olive Clark Sneddon. Born in 1904, she was <br />about the same age as the older Romeo children and had been friends with them while <br />they lived in Louisville. The following are excerpts from the article: <br />The two-story house is built of sandstone which was quarried at Marshall and is <br />the only house in Louisville of this type of construction. <br />The house was "way out in the country" in those days. The only neighbors were <br />the Clark family, in the house to the west. <br />The Romeo family, builders of the "rock house," was a large and interesting <br />family.... Everyone in the family played a musical instrument, and the family is <br />remembered for the fine musicians and family orchestra. <br />Mrs. Sneddon, who was a friend of the Romeo children, remembers that an <br />older son would call the children home from play by playing a tune on the <br />trumpet. "They would come running from all directions." <br />The Romeo family enjoyed a rare luxury, a swimming pool, which was located in <br />the lots to the north of the house. Neighbor children were even allowed to join <br />in the swimming fun, but children stayed very close to home and their own <br />neighborhood in Louisville's earlier days and so the swimmers were limited to <br />family and close neighbors. <br />The next owners of the home, the Jack Binks, filled in the pool. <br />Remodeling of the home was limited to enclosing the porches and adding <br />dormer windows in the upstairs in recent years. [As noted below, however, the <br />photos of the house from not long after construction show the dormer windows <br />in place.] <br />10 <br />