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Louisville Historical Museum Department of Library & Museum Services City of Louisville, Colorado August 2013 L Cityq Louisville COLORADO - SINCE 1878 600 Pine St. Legal Description: Lots 1, 2, and 3, Block 12, Pleasant Hill Addition. Year of Construction: circa 1905 Summary: For several decades, this was the home of Joseph and Bertha Malcolm and was the location of Joe's insurance business. Today, it is the residence of their grandson and his wife. Orrin T. Welch and the Establishment of the Pleasant Hill Addition The subdivision in which 600 Pine is located is the Pleasant Hill Addition. This addition was platted and recorded with Boulder County in 1894 by Orrin T. Welch. Orrin Welch was the half brother of Charles C. Welch, the prominent Colorado businessman who played the major role in the founding of Louisville and the opening of its first coal mine, the Welch Mine, back in the 1870s. In the 1890s, Charles Welch was still involved in the development of the town, in this case through the transfer of property to his half brother, Orrin, in 1893. Early History; Date of Construction In 1902, Orrin T. Welch sold the lots that comprise 600 Pine to the Cathedral of St John the Evangelist. By 1904, however, the Cathedral sold the property to John A. Williams. The exact details may never be known, but it appears from these property transactions that the lots were either an investment or being eyed for the construction of a church, possibly an Episcopal Church. The fact that the lots at Grant and Pine were located catty -corner from the Baptist Church, which had already been constructed, may have been seen as an advantage. (A church structure was apparently never built, but from 1905 to 1910, the Episcopal St. Peter's Mission existed in Louisville under the leadership of an Episcopal pastor from Boulder, according to the book The Episcopal Church in Colorado 1860-1963 by Allen Du Pont Breck.)