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Louisville Historical Museum <br />October 2011; Updated March 2015 <br />LCity��f <br />Louisville <br />COLORADO SINGE. 1876 <br />721 Grant Ave. History <br />Legal Description: Lots 4 and 5, Block 8, Pleasant Hill Addition <br />Year of Construction: circa 1893 -1900 <br />Architect /Builder: Dr. Charles Wolfer had the building constructed on Main Street. The architect is <br />unknown. <br />Previous address used to refer to this property: 252 Grant; 224 Grant; 234 Grant; 230 Grant. These <br />addresses were used for the property at different times under Louisville's old numbering system, which <br />changed to the current system in the late 1930s. <br />Summary: The house at 721 Grant is important to Louisville history for a number of reasons: it is one of <br />the many buildings that historically were relocated from one site to another site in the Louisville area, <br />and had an earlier life as a Main Street business and the Louisville Post Office; it was reportedly the <br />location of Louisville's newspaper office; it was used as a hospital operated by the United Mine Workers <br />for area miners (and according to a 1985 survey of the property, "is the one remaining union associated <br />building in Louisville "); and it is believed to have used for elementary school classes prior to becoming a <br />private residence, which it has been for approximately the last ninety years. For many of those years, it <br />was the home of Harry and Doris Jenkins and their six children. <br />Earliest History as Business Building on Main Street <br />Many of Louisville's relocated buildings historically came from mine camps at the points when those <br />particular mines were closing, allowing people to acquire prebuilt homes and move them onto their <br />property. However, some buildings were moved for simple reasons of convenience. It appears to have <br />been for reasons of convenience that this building was moved. <br />The building was originally built on the site of today's 801 Main, which is the location of the State <br />Mercantile Building. This was then the location of the home of Dr. Charles Wolfer and Flora Wolfer and <br />their family. Based on an examination of Sanborn maps from 1893 and 1900, it was between 1893 and <br />1 <br />