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Resource Number: 5BL 7991 Temporary Resource Number: 157508415003 1988). Charles was one of at least four men by this name in Louisville, all related to one another. Celia Bottinelli married Tony Fenolia, who grew up on the 900 block of La Farge in Jefferson Place. She appears with their son Ron on Louisville's World War II film, Our Boys and Girls in the Armed Forces, 1943-44. Boulder County gives 1900 as the year of construction of this house, but this would have been a date estimated long after the fact. The 2000 survey report done on 822 La Farge gave an estimated date of construction of 1903 based on the fact that the house appears on the 1908 Sanborn map but not on the 1900 Sanborn map. However, the Sanborn maps for both 1893 and 1900 do show a house on Lot 22, possibly suggesting a date of construction earlier than either 1900 or 1903. The 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville also shows the house in the correct location on Lot 22. Whatever the year that Baptist and Clementina Bottinelli purchased this property, the 1904 Louisville directory (which is the first directory that gives the locations of residences) indicates that the Bottinelli family was living at this location by that time. The directory states that they lived on "Lafarge btw. Spruce & Walnut," which accurately describes 822 La Farge. Directories continue to place them at this location until the late 1940s. Directories indicate that 822 La Farge had a number of different addresses over the years. Under Louisville's old address system, the address was 341 La Farge in 1916, 1918, and the early 1920s, and 335 La Farge from the mid 1920s to the late 1930s. In the 1940s, which was a time of transition for Louisville addresses, the various addresses given for the Bottinelli residence were 832, 820, and 816. In 1951, the residents of 822 La Farge were Nadine Harris Caranci and Raymond Caranci. Nadine Harris had grown up at 801 Spruce (5BL11320), a few houses south of 822 La Farge, as the daughter of Hazel Harris and the granddaughter of Peter and Savina Zarini of 804 La Farge (5BL7983). Thus, this is another home of many in this vicinity associated with the Zarini family. In 1953, Arthur and Lucille Henander purchased Lot 22 (822 La Farge) from the heirs of Baptist and Clementina Bottinelli, and in 1955, they purchased Lot 21 (816 La Farge) from Harold and Arlene Hawkins. Previous owners of 816 La Farge were Martha Eberharter, who owned 801 La Farge (5BL852) and 805 La Farge (5BL7984), and Joseph Zarini Jr., who owned 824 La Farge (5BL7992). The Henanders apparently had the house at 816 La Farge demolished. When they sold the parcel in 1958 to Lawrence and Genevieve Harper, the legal description consisted of both Lots 21 and 22. At some point, possibly in the 1950s, a garage for 822 La Farge was constructed farther back on Lot 21. Paul Weissmann owned and resided in this house with his family from 1988 to 2002. Paul Weissmann was elected to the Colorado State Senate as a Democrat in 1992. He was then elected as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives in 2002. He became House Majority Leader and served four terms for House District 12 (which includes Louisville, Lafayette, and parts of Longmont). He continued to work as a bartender at the Blue Parrot Restaurant (5BL8037) in Louisville while serving in the Colorado Legislature. 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 3