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Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />December 2016 <br />La <br />City0r <br />Louisville <br />COLORADO • SINCE 1878 <br />625 Grant Avenue History <br />Legal Description: Lots 4 & 5, Block 11, Pleasant Hill Addition <br />Year of Construction: circa 1915-1920 <br />Summary: The Mudrock family built this house next to the family's main house at 613 Grant. It is <br />believed to have started as an older house that the Mudrock family added on to. Members of the <br />Mudrock family lived in both houses for several decades. Albert Mudrock, who grew up in the original <br />family home at 613 Grant, then lived as an adult with his family at 625 Grant. <br />Development of the Pleasant Hill Addition <br />The subdivision in which this house is located, Pleasant Hill Addition, was platted in 1894. It was <br />developed by Orrin Welch, the half-brother of Charles C. Welch, the man who started the Welch Mine <br />and played a prominent role in the founding of Louisville. <br />While it is not known whether the sections of Lincoln and Grant south of Pine had so many Slovaks and <br />other Eastern European families to constitute an actual ethnic enclave, there were at least 12 other <br />houses in this neighborhood besides the two Mudrock houses at 613 and 625 Grant that were <br />associated with Eastern European families. <br />Mudrock Family Ownership, 1903-1995; Date of Construction <br />The Mudrock (formerly "Mudrak" and "Mudrack") family from Slovakia purchased Lots 4, 5, 6, and 7 <br />along Grant Ave. and constructed 613 Grant in circa 1903. The house at 613 Grant appears on the 1909 <br />Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville, though the house is shown as straddling lots 5 and 6 instead of being <br />situated solely on lots 6 and 7. Assuming that the map is accurate as to the location of the house, it is <br />possible that the house was shifted slightly to the south when the family added a house on the north <br />side of their property. This eventually was given the address of 625 Grant. Because of the <br />interconnectedness of the histories of 613 Grant and 625 Grant, some Mudrock family history follows. <br />1 <br />