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Resource Number: 5BL 8000 Temporary Resource Number: 157508405005 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville, Colorado, 1909. Sanborn Insurance Maps for Louisville, Colorado, 1893, 1900, and 1908. Green Mountain Cemetery Index to Interment Books, 1904-1925, Boulder Genealogical Society, 2006. Lafayette, Colorado cemetery records, accessed at http://files.usgwarchives.org/co/boulder/cemeteries/lafcemgz.txt . Archival materials on file at the Louisville Historical Museum. Lafayette Leader, January 22, 1937, acquired at the Lafayette, Colorado Public Library. 13. National Register Eligibility Assessment: Eligible Not eligible X Need data Explain: While the property has sufficient integrity and significance to be a local historic landmark, it lacks sufficient integrity and significance to be individually eligible to the National Register. The property has integrity of location; if it actually was moved from across the street, this was done during the district period of significance. Integrity of setting, workmanship, feeling and association are intact. Integrity of materials is compromised by partial siding replacement. Integrity of design is compromised by replacement windows and porch columns and by a series of additions to the rear of the house. 13A. Colorado State Register: Eligible Not Eligible X 13B. Louisville Local Landmark: Eligible X Not Eligible The house is significant for its association with the locally prominent Porta family, an Italian immigrant coal mining family. While its integrity compromised to the extent that it would not be eligible to the National or State Registers, it Is worthy of nomination as a Louisville Local Landmark. 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. Since the date of the most recent siding replacement is unknown, the property's status as a contributing resource is classified as "Needs Data" for both a State Register historic district and for a potential National Register historic district. 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