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Resource Number: 5BL919 Temporary Resource Number: 157508425003 located at 808 Main St (5BL8040). Alex Merciez died in 1971. Naomi Merciez sold the house in 1975 to Robert and Rolene Hinsberger. Naomi died in 1994. Sources of Information Boulder County "Real Estate Appraisal Card — Urban Master," on file at the Carnegie Branch Library for Local History in Boulder, Colorado. Boulder County Clerk & Recorder's Office and Assessor's Office public records, accessed through http://recorder.bouldercounty.org . Directories of Louisville residents and businesses on file at the Louisville Historical Museum. Census records and other records accessed through www.ancestry.com. Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville, Colorado, 1909. Louisville Building Permit files Sanborn Insurance Maps for Louisville, Colorado, 1893, 1900, and 1908. Archival materials on file at the Louisville Historical Museum. Sacred Heart of Mary cemetery records, accessed at www.findagrave.com. A Guide to Manuscript Collections, Seventh Edition, Archives, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries, 2008, accessed at www.ucblibraries.colorado.edu. 13. National Register Eligibility Assessment: Eligible Not eligible X Need data Explain: While the property has sufficient integrity and significance to be a contributing resource to a potential historic district, it lacks sufficient significance and integrity to be individually eligible to the National Register. The garages are non-contributing resources. The house has integrity of location, setting, workmanship, feeling and association. The design of the front porch has been modified at least twice. The east addition is on the rear, so it does not severely compromise integrity. Overall this property has good integrity. Although the property's significance and integrity do not qualify it for individual listing on the National Register, it is locally significant for its association with residential development in Louisville; its long ownership (56 years) by an Austrian coal mining family; and as a locally notable example of an American Foursquare style house. 13A. Colorado State Register: Not Eligible 13B. Louisville Local Landmark: Eligible due to its local significance as stated above, and high level of integrity. 13C. Historic District Potential: Jefferson Place is eligible as a State Register and local historic district. There is potential for a National Register historic district. The main house would be contributing. The garages are non- contributing. Discuss: This building is being recorded as part of a 2010-2011 intensive -level historical and architectural survey of Jefferson Place, Louisville's first residential subdivision, platted in 1880. The purpose of the survey is to determine if there is potential for National Register, State Register or local historic districts. Jefferson Place is eligible as a State Register historic district under Criterion A, Ethnic Heritage, European, for its association with European immigrants who first lived here and whose descendants continued to live here for over fifty years. The period of significance for the State Register historic district is 1881 — 1980. Jefferson Place is potentially eligible as a National Register historic district under Criterion A, Ethnic Heritage, European. However it needs data to determine dates of some modifications, and to more definitely establish the significant impacts of various European ethnic groups on the local culture of Louisville. The period of significance of a National Register district is 1881 — 1963. Jefferson Place is eligible as a local Louisville historic district under local Criterion B, Social, as it exemplifies the cultural and social heritage of the community. European immigrant families flocked to Colorado coal mining communities, including Louisville, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in search of economic opportunities they could not find in their own countries. Louisville's Welch Coal Mine, along with other mines in the area, recruited skilled workers from western Europe. In the early years before 1900, most of the miners who lived in Jefferson Place came from English-speaking countries. 4