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The layout of the house from the 1948 County Assessor card for 613 Grant appears here: GROUND PLAN SKETCH NOICATI Nl1NeCR STORIEllj FRONT Anna Kochan Mudrock was interviewed at the age of 90 for the July 30, 1980 Louisville Times. The article sheds some light on the history of the house. "The newlywed Mudrocks moved in with John's mother and brothers and sister in a [two -room] house on the same lot where Ann lives today. She has lived there since 1909." This is a reference to 613 Grant, which was Anna's home at the time of the article. She also told the reporter that because the house was so crowded, her husband John G. built a shack for their small family "in the back." They had four children: John, born 1911; Helen, born 1912; Alice, born 1915; and Albert, born 1922. Anna Mudrock also was quoted as saying, "We used to bring a bucket of water in from the hydrant every morning and put a dipper in it to drink from. Everybody used the same dipper. Not like today. We've got to have a glass for this one and a glass for that one." Later, when the Mudrock family built a house at 625 Grant, it was said by the family to have been a combination of an old house with a new addition. It is conceivable that the house that John G. Mudrock built behind 613 Grant that was described in the interview with Anna was moved to 625 Grant and formed the original part of that house. Evidence suggests that there was a house at 625 Grant with its own address by around 1915-1920. (It was remodeled in 1950.) This then became the home of John and Mary Mudrak, the parents, and their other children, while 613 Grant continued to be the home of John G. and Anna Mudrock. In 1943, following the death of Mary Mudrak, John G. Mudrock as the administrator of his mother's estate conveyed ownership of 625 Grant to Anna, who then in 1947 4