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Resource Number: 5BL 7990 Temporary Resource Number: 157508414008 Angela Apollonia Milano was born in 1890 in Cerretto, Province of Campobasso, Italy. Her mother died when she was just two years old and she had to work in domestic service at a young age. At the age of 18, she married Giuseppe (Joseph, Joe) Milano in an arranged marriage. After serving in the Italian Army, he left for the United States in 1909, leaving Angela with their baby, Giovananina Lucia (Jenny). Angela and Jenny followed in 1913 and joined Joe in Firestone, Colorado. Joe worked as a coal miner and they took in boarders. Angela and Joe Milano had four more children: Anthony, Stella, William, and Mary. The family moved to Louisville in 1920. Joe became ill and was hospitalized for over twenty-five years before passing away in 1956. During the Depression years, Angela and her children depended on assistance from the County and on the charity of friends and relatives in Louisville, as Joe Milano was not able to support them. According to a Milano family history, the Forte Store at 804 Walnut (5BL11308) in Jefferson Place organized a dance for the Milano family that raised two hundred dollars for the family. When Angela Milano purchased 821 La Farge in 1950, she was about 60 years old and this became her home. Living with her at 821 La Farge was her daughter, Jenny, who had never married. Jenny worked as a telephone operator for Mountain State Telephone Company and also worked at Louisville Liquor located nearby on Main Street at 819 Main. She was very involved with the St. Louis Church. She became the owner of 821 La Farge in 1978 as the result of her siblings conveying it to her by quit claim deed. One of her siblings was Stella Milano Coet, who had married John Coet. Angela Milano died in 1989 at the age of 98. Her daughter, Jenny continued to live at 821 La Farge, then sold it in 1998. She died in 2007. 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 Sanborn Insurance Maps for Louisville, Colorado, 1893, 1900, and 1908 Archival materials on file at the Louisville Historical Museum, including typed Milano family history entitled "Angela Apollonia Milano," compiled by Nadine Caranci and Ron Buffo. 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 house has integrity of location, setting, design, workmanship, feeling and association. It lacks integrity of materials due to the replacement asbestos siding. 13A. Colorado State Register: Eligible Not Eligible X 13B. Louisville Local Landmark: Eligible X Not Eligible The property is significant as one of the early homes in Jefferson Place, Louisville's first residential subdivision. It is significant for its association with several of Louisville's immigrant Italian coal mining families, including the Beretta and Milano families. This property is also significant as a relatively intact example of a small, side - gabled frame dwelling. 3