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Louisville Historical Museum Department of Library & Museum Services City of Louisville, Colorado January 2016 City of Louisville COLORADO • SINCE 1878 1201 Lincoln Ave. History Legal Description: Lots 97-99, Block 5, Nicola Di Giacomo Addition, Louisville, Colorado. The parcel for many years consisted of the additional lots of 100-102 (now the location of 1215 Lincoln). Date of Construction: 1908; County Assessor card dated 1948 states that it was remodeled in 1928 Summary: Members of the Koci/Reddington family owned this house for 80 years, from 1921 until 2001. Development of the Nicola Di Giacomo Addition This area of Louisville is called the Nicola Di Giacomo Addition, having been platted by Nicola Di Giacomo in 1907. Nicola Di Giacomo farmed this area before filing the plat for a subdivision. This addition consists of 4 % blocks that stretch across the north end of Old Town of Louisville. (On the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville, Nicola DiGiacomo is also shown as the owner of the additional property where Louisville Middle School is now located, and of the residential area that now extends behind the school and north of it up to South Boulder Road.) DiGiacomo was born in Italy in 1852 and immigrated to the US in about 1882. In the 1910 census, Nicola DiGiacomo was listed as being a 57-year-old farmer. A 1907 warranty deed shows the transfer of a number of lots in this addition from Nicola Di Giacomo to John Russell Munn. The lots were those on the west side of the 1200 block of Lincoln. At about the same time, Munn sold off lots 103, et al. Munn then sold lots 97-102 to George W. Admire. These lots are currently the location of 1201 Lincoln and 1215 Lincoln. Admire Ownership, 1908-1919; Discussion of Date of Construction The County gives 1908 as the date of construction of 1201 Lincoln, both in its current online records and on the 1948 County Assessor card. Since Boulder County records are sometimes in 1