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Gigi Yang <br />Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Cultural Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />February 2024 <br />LCityoj <br />Louisville <br />COLORADO . SINCE 187E <br />1213 Jefferson Ave History <br />Legal Description: LOTS 52 & 53 & N 5 FT LOT 51 BLK 3 NICOLAS DI GIACOMO ADD <br />Year of Construction: 1948 <br />Summary: This property is associated with Louisville's early history of English, German, and Italian <br />immigrants, labor rights during the Long Strike (1910-1914), and the Carveth Bros. & Dalby General Store <br />and Supermarket that was located on Main Street for sixty years. More recently, it was the home of <br />Roberta Nigon, a well-known elementary school teacher who lived in the house for more than fifty years. <br />History of the Nicola DiGiacomo Addition <br />This area of Louisville is called the Nicola DiGiacomo Addition, having been platted by Nicola DiGiacomo <br />in 1907. Nicola DiGiacomo owned and farmed this area before filing the plat for a subdivision. This <br />addition consists of 4 %2 blocks that stretch across the north end of Old Town Louisville. On the 1909 <br />Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville, Nicola DiGiacomo is also shown as the owner of the additional property <br />where Louisville Middle School is now located, and the residential area that now extends behind the <br />school and north of it up to South Boulder Road. <br />DiGiacomo was born in Italy in about 1852 and immigrated to the US in about 1882. In the 1910 census, <br />Nicola DiGiacomo was listed as a 57-year-old farmer. Nicola DiGiacomo's wife, Lucia, was also born in <br />Italy in about 1852 and she immigrated in about 1888. Nicola DiGiacomo passed away in 1915. <br />Early Property Ownership, 1908-1948 <br />This property was part of a larger parcel of land owned by several notable Louisville families between <br />1908-1948. It remained undeveloped until 1948 when the house at 1213 Jefferson was built. <br />