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Resource Number: 5BL 956 Temporary Resource Number: 157508434002 In 1904, Guerino Mangus acquired the lots for property. Lots 4 and 5 appear to have come from James Dalby, while half of Lot 3 appears to have come either directly from Harper Orahood or from Harper Orahood through Anton Mangus. In 1898, Charles Welch conveyed twenty-nine different lots in Jefferson Place to a Denver lawyer, Harper Orahood, apparently for Orahood to resell. The online property records indicate that a half lot included in this parcel was among these properties. Guerino Mangus and his family lived here while his brother, Anton, lived with his family in the next house to the east, at 633 Jefferson. It is believed that Guerino also went by the name Pete. His wife was Olive Mangus and their children were Olive and Leo. The 1910 census states that they were born in Italy. It is believed that the Mangus family came from a part of northern Italy that was for a time part of Austria. The 1910 census shows the Mangus family living in this location. Guerino was 47, Olive was 34, and the census records indicate that they came to the US in 1889. The 1916 Louisville directory also shows the Guerino Mangus family living in this location. By 1918, they had apparently left Louisville, as they are not listed in the 1918 directory. The 1920 census shows them living in Idaho. The County gives 1905 as an estimated date of construction for this house. Boulder County records have sometimes been found to be in error with respect to historic buildings in Louisville. However, the fact that Guerino Mangus worked as a carpenter, and acquired the lots in 1904, indicates that the 1905 construction date could be correct. The property in question is outside of the boundaries of the Sanborn Maps that were done for Louisville in 1893, 1900, and 1908 (they focused on the downtown business district and La Farge Avenue only). The house at 624 Pine does not appear in the correct location on the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville. However, that does not mean that it was not standing in 1909. Rather, it was probably considered to be the second house on a parcel owned by the Mangus brothers that had 633 Jefferson as the primary residence. The 1909 Drumm's Wall Map was drawn to only show the primary structure on a parcel. With two brothers residing in these two houses next to one another, the structures were probably viewed as being on one parcel and not two. The Boulder County Assessor's Office also lists a second improvement on this property, a small "cabin" also estimated to have been built in 1905. The identity of the residents of the house from about 1918 to 1936 could not be located. In 1936, a deed was recorded that conveyed 624 Pine from Guerino Mangus to Catherine Poydock, who lived with her family nearby at 617 Jefferson (5BL11291). However, she died that same year, and her heirs then transferred ownership of 624 Pine to Jane Todd. Jane Todd was a widow who grew up close by at 701 Jefferson (5BL11313) in Jefferson Place as the daughter of Thomas Beveridge and Janette Ferguson Beveridge of Scotland. Other houses in Jefferson Place are also connected with this family, such as 705 Jefferson (5BL11294) and 720 Jefferson (5BL11296). Jane "Janie" Beveridge was born in 1884 in Illinois as the oldest of several Beveridge children. (More information about the Beveridge family can be found in the report on 701 Jefferson.) In 1902, she married Otto Todd, who was born in Wisconsin in 1875 and had served in the Spanish-American War in the Philippines in 1898-99. He would be one of the only Louisville residents to have served in that war. In 1908, Otto and Jane Todd purchased the building that would become the Rex Theatre at 817 Main Street (5BL8552). Otto Todd is believed to have initially operated a billiard hall at this location. By the time of the 1910 census, however, he was listed as the operator of a moving picture theater, and by 1911, according to a Louisville directory, he was the proprietor of the Isis Theatre, a name that predated the Rex. Thus, it was Otto Todd who began using the building as a movie theatre. This usage of the building as a movie theatre would continue until 1977. 4