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Bridget Bacon, Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />February 2019 <br />Cityoj <br />Louisville <br />COLORADO • SINCE 187S <br />1200 Jefferson Ave. History <br />Legal Description: West %2 of Lots 37 & 38 and West 1/2 of Lot 39 less the north 11 feet, Block 2, <br />Nicola Di Giacomo Addition, Louisville, Colorado. <br />Date of Construction: circa 1900 <br />Summary: Records show that Rocco DeSantis in 1929 purchased these lots and in 1930 moved <br />the original part of this house from the Gorham Mine in Marshall, Colorado to the lots. The <br />Rocco and Rose DeSantis family owned the property for nearly 70 years, until 1998. It was the <br />family home for most of that time. <br />Development of the Nicola Di Giacomo Addition <br />This area of Louisville is called the Nicola Di Giacomo Addition, having been platted by Nicola Di <br />Giacomo in 1907. Nicola Di Giacomo farmed this area before filing the plat for a subdivision. <br />This addition consists of 4 1/2 blocks that stretch across the north end of Old Town of Louisville. <br />(On the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville, Nicola DiGiacomo is also shown as the owner of <br />the additional property where Louisville Middle School is now located, and of the residential <br />area that now extends behind the school and north of it up to South Boulder Road.) DiGiacomo <br />was born in Italy in 1852 and immigrated to the US in about 1882. <br />A 1908 warranty deed shows the transfer of a number of lots in this addition from Nicola Di <br />Giacomo to Domenico Rotolo. They included 18 blocks in Block 2, including the ones that 1200 <br />Jefferson is located on, plus 36 lots on other blocks. Domenico Rotolo then resold a number of <br />lots, County records show. <br />Ownership of Parcel until 1929; Discussion of Date of Construction <br />Prior to the current house being located at 1200 Jefferson, owners of the 1200 Jefferson parcel <br />between 1908 and 1929 included David Foulks, Harley Fletcher, and Anthony Kilker. The parcel <br />at that time included all of Lots 37, 38, 39, and 40, and it today includes the addresses of 1200 <br />1 <br />