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Resource Number: 5BL 7985 Temporary Resource Number: 157508415006 Census records and other records accessed through www.ancestry.com . Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville, Colorado, 1909. Sanborn Insurance Maps for Louisville, Colorado, 1893, 1900, and 1908. Louisville, Colorado cemetery records, accessed at http://files.usgwarchives.org/co/boulder/cemeteries/louisville.txt . Louisville Times Centennial Edition, August 17, 1978. Archival materials on file at the Louisville Historical Museum, including "Harris Genealogy 2003," written family history material donated to the Louisville Historical Museum in 2007 by Nadine Harris Caranci; undated transcribed oral history interview of Ernest Zarina. Myers, Theresa. "A Gift of Memories." The Louisville Historian. Louisville Historical Museum and Commission, Louisville, Colorado, May 1993. 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 integrity to be individually eligible to the National Register. The property has integrity of location, setting, workmanship, feeling and association. Integrity of materials is compromised by the asbestos siding. Integrity of design is compromised by the enclosed porch. 13A. Colorado State Register: Eligible Not Eligible X 13B. Louisville Local Landmark: Eligible X Not Eligible The property's association with the locally significant Zarini family, and its relatively good integrity, would qualify it for status as a Louisville local landmark. 13C. Historic District Potential: Jefferson Place is eligible as a State Register and a local historic district. There is National Register district potential. There is also potential for a small State Register historic district comprised of the extended Zarini family residences on the 800 block of LaFarge. The main house would be a contributing structure to a historic district. The shed would be 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 4