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Resource Number: 5BL7981 Temporary Resource Number: 157508426007 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville, Colorado, 1909 Sanborn Insurance Maps for Louisville, Colorado, 1893, 1900, and 1908 Louisville building permit files Louisville, Colorado cemetery records, accessed at http://files.usgwarchives.org/co/boulder/cemeteries/louisville.txt Archival materials on file at the Louisville Historical Museum, including a reference to a Rocky Mountain News article dated January 26, 1883, regarding Louisville's William Hart being manager of the Louisville Co -Operative Store; and a written "Chiolino Family History" donated to the Louisville Historical Museum by Lois Chiolino Tesone on April 23, 2009. Interview of Lois Chiolino Tesone conducted by Museum Coordinator Bridget Bacon, April 23, 2009. Interview of Mr. Andy Gitkind conducted by Kathy Lingo, Avenue L Architects, November 19, 2010 13. National Register Eligibility Assessment: Eligible Not eligible X Need data Explain: While the property has sufficient integrity and significance to be a local landmark, it lacks sufficient integrity and significance to be individually eligible to the National Register. It has integrity of location, setting, workmanship, feeling and association. Integrity of design is lost due to the prominent shed -roofed addition on the front of the house, the relocation of the original front entry, and the alteration of several window openings. An earlier addition on the front of the house dates from the period of significance and does not compromise integrity of design. Integrity of materials is lost due to replacement siding. However, the property is still able to visually convey its history to a viewer sufficiently for it to be a contributing resource in a historic district. The property is significant for its association with residential development in Louisville in the late 1800s and early 1900s and for its association with European immigrants employed in the local mining industry. 13A. Colorado State Register: Not Eligible 13B. Louisville Local Landmark: Eligible. The property is eligible as a Louisville local landmark for its long association with European immigrant coal -mining families. 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. This property is 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. Immigrants from England brought a strong tradition and expertise in coal mining. The English are widely credited with developing the techniques of coal mining that were used locally, and they taught these techniques to other miners. The British mining culture was instilled in the early Colorado coal mines. English immigrants also brought expertise in other necessary skills such as blacksmithing and chain forging. 4