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Bridget Bacon Louisville Historical Museum Department of Cultural Services City of Louisville, Colorado June 2023 LCityof Louisville COLORADO • SINCE, 1878 1101 Main St. History Legal Description: Lots 1 & 2, Block 2, Barclay Place Addition Year of Construction: 1928 Summary: The property is associated with Italian culture in Louisville and the achievements of the individual Louisville residents of Italian heritage who have owned it. The Italian -born Jacoe brothers, Eliseo and Frank, owned the parcel individually or jointly for 45 years. They were musicians who were trained in Italy and who played in bands in the Louisville area and in Denver, often alongside other Italian -born musicians. Additionally, Eliseo and Annie Jacoe, who had the house at 1101 Main constructed and who lived there until the 1950s, operated the Jacoe grocery store that was a neighborhood store that also sold Italian foods to Louisville's residents of Italian heritage. Later, from 1959 until the present, the Eugene and Virginia Caranci family has owned and lived in the house. Eugene Caranci was one of the founders of Louisville's Society of Italian Americans. Virginia Caranci was the primary person responsible for the preservation of the Jacoe Store and Tomeo House buildings and the establishment of the Louisville Historical Museum in 1986. Both are remembered for sharing stories and information about the Italian customs and culture that they grew up with in Louisville. Prior to the current house that was constructed in 1928, the Fischer family had a carpentry shop on the property that the Jacoe family lived in. Development of Barclay Place The Colorado Mortgage and Investment Co., Limited, a corporation organized under the laws of Great Britain and doing business in Colorado, in 1897 platted the Barclay Place subdivision in which this property is located and began to sell lots. (A second plat filing for clarification was recorded in 1901.) 1