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Resource Number: 5BL 7991 Temporary Resource Number: 157508415003 822 La Farge is consistent with these patterns and blends well with the scale and character of the neighborhood. 9. Changes in Condition: None. 10. Changes to Location or Size Information: None. 11. Changes in Ownership: Same ownership as 2000 inventory form. 12. Other Changes, Additions, or Observations: Further research has yielded new information about the history of 822 La Farge. This property was associated with the Baptist (sometimes referred to by other names such as "Battista" and "Baptiste") Bottinelli and Clementina "Tina" Biella Bottinelli and their children for several decades. Like their neighbors, the Zarini family, the Bottinelli family and the Biella family came from Northern Italy. The Bottinellis emigrated from Caversaccio, Valmorea, Province of Como, and the Biella family came from Casaleggio Boiro, which is in the Piedmont region. This house is also one of the many homes in Jefferson Place lived in or owned by members of Louisville's Zarini family. This property at 822 La Farge originally consisted of two separate parcels with two separate houses. 822 La Farge sat on Lot 22 of Block 2, Jefferson Place, and 816 La Farge sat on Lot 21. The parcels were combined in 1955 and 816 La Farge was demolished, as further discussed below. A search of the online Boulder County property records did not turn up the deed by which Baptist and Clementina Bottinelli initially acquired Lot 22. However, Boulder County records show that the couple married in Boulder County in January 1888 when Clementina was 14 and Baptist was just turning 29. Baptist lived 1859 to 1945 and Clementina lived 1873 to 1952. Baptist was the eldest of three Bottinelli brothers who came to Louisville and he was the first to do so. Census records indicate that he emigrated between 1881 and 1884. According to a Bottinelli family history, he went first to Como, Colorado for one year, then came to Louisville. He was followed by his brothers Peter and Angelo. Peter Bottinelli and his family also settled in a house in Jefferson Place, at 929 La Farge (5BL8001). When Angelo Bottinelli came through Ellis Island with his wife and oldest child in March 1904, it was noted on the passenger list that their destination was Louisville, Colorado where they would be joining Angelo's brother, "Battista" Bottinelli. All three brothers worked as miners at coal mines in the Louisville area. Clementina Biella entered the U.S. on July 24, 1885 with her family when she was 11. Her parents were Angelo and Margariette Biella, and her siblings were Anselmo, Rosa, Angela, and Santino. Clementina's father died by the early 1900s, but of her family, at least her mother, Margariette, and her brother, Santino, continued to live in Louisville. In fact, Margariette and Santino Biella lived directly across the street from Clementina at 825 La Farge (5BL7993) for many years. (Santino Biella married Mary Zarini, who had grown up at 804 La Farge 5BL7983 as the daughter of Peter and Savina Zarini.) The Bottinelli and the Biella families both had ties to Hanna, Wyoming, another coal mining town. In fact, the 1900 federal census shows Baptist and Clementina living (and renting) with some of their children in Hanna in June of that year. It is possible that due to the mines in the Louisville area closing in the summers due to the relatively poor quality of the coal, they went elsewhere in search of work in the summer (as some other families are known to have done). While the exact reason is not known, they did return to Louisville and appear again in directories beginning with the early 1900s. Members of Clementina's family, the Biellas, also lived and worked in Hanna. By the time of the 1900 census, Clementina, who was 26, had already had eight children, of whom only two had survived to 1900. Clementina and Baptist would have four children who survived to adulthood and who grew up at 822 La Farge: Frank (1898-1989), Charles (1899-1969), Margaret (Troxel) (1900-1993), and Celia (Fenolia) (1902- 2