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The exact usage of this second structure is not known. The Boulder County Assessor's website appears to today list this building as a farm utility building built in 1905. The Boulder County Assessor Card in 1948 listed the date of construction as 1950, but the date of 1905 is believed to have been intended since the card also indicated that the second structure was built an estimated 40 years prior to 1948. Since the deed to transfer the property was not effective until 1906, as explained above, the date of construction of the second structure is, as with the main house, presumed to be "1905-06." Heirship documents recorded with the County in 1951 show that John Harney's heirs inherited this property and that the surviving children and one grandchild then transferred their interests in the property to Katherine Puskar Harney. The same year, Katherine Puskar Harney transferred ownership to herself and her daughter, Mary Harney Wetzork, whose husband had died in World War II. In 1969, Katherine Puskar Harney moved to California, joining several of her children who had moved there. In 1970, she and her co-owner daughter, Mary Wetzork, sold 620 Grant to Bobby Joe and Marjorie Hinkle, ending a period of about 65 years of ownership by members of the Harney family. Katherine Puskar Harney died in 1971. Hinkle Family Ownership, 1970-1992 Bobby Joe Hinkle (1926-2011) and Marjorie "Margie" Stones Hinkle (1933-1992) bought 620 Grant in 1970. Margie Hinkle had grown up in Louisville. She married Bobby Joe Hinkle in 1952. Records indicate that during the ownership by the Hinkles, the house was primarily rented out while the Hinkles lived elsewhere in Louisville. Later Owners Wendy Armstrong owned the house from 1992 to 1998. 1998, she sold 620 Grant to Annie Brier and Sharon Storlie. In 2007, they sold it to Richard and Nicole Schwalm, who are the current owners. The preceding research is based on a review of relevant and available online County property records, census records, oral history interviews, Louisville directories, and Louisville Historical Museum maps, files, obituary records, and historical photographs from the collection of the Louisville Historical Museum. 4