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Louisville Historical Museum <br />August 2012 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1036 Walnut Street History <br /> <br />Legal Description: Lots 1 through 5, Block 2, East Louisville subdivision <br /> <br />Year of Construction: 1908 (see discussion below) <br /> <br />Architect: Unknown <br /> <br />Previous addresses used to refer to this property: No other address for this house was found. Before <br />the current address system was instituted in 1939, this home was <br />Louisville. <br /> <br />Summary: This was the home of the Josephine Guenzi family, an Italian fam <br />years. No other family was found to have been associated with th <br /> <br /> <br />Development of East Louisville <br /> <br />[šÒz­ÝzŒŒ; Iz­·š©z“ issue #85 (Winter <br />2010), William Lee is one of a number of people who played prominent roles in Louis <br />and about whom little is generally known today, many decades lat <br />found his way to Louisville in the 1890s with his brother, Georg <br />Welch and platted the subdivision of East Louisville in 1906. Th <br />They sold the house lots quickly, perhaps because of the proximi <br />and Rex #2 coal mines that were in operation along the eastern e <br />proportion of the first purchasers of these lots were membe <br /> <br />As an illustration of the prevalence of Italian families in this <br />homes across the street from 1036 Walnut on this very short sect <br />railroad tracks and Miners Field were also home to Italian families <br />family at 1013 Walnut; the Jordinelli family at 1021 Walnut; and <br />at 1037 Walnut. <br /> <br />Ownership by the Guenzi Family, 1907-2012 <br /> <br />The story of this house is the story of Josephine (Giuseppina) L <br />was one of three distinct Guenzi families in Louisville.) It is he was born in Castelletto <br />Ticino, Novara, in the region of Piedmont in northern Italy in the 1870s, married Carlo Guenzi in 1895 in <br />