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John "Mudrak" was born in what is now Slovakia in about 1868. Mary Mudrak was born in Slovakia in about 1872. They married in about 1888. Their son, John George, was born in 1890, and another son, Paul, was born in 1893. Records show that the family was from Lucka, Slovakia, which is along the southern border near Hungary. For purposes of this report, John and Mary, who were the first generation of Mudrocks to live in Louisville, will be referred to by their original last name of "Mudrak" to distinguish them from later generations of the family. Their son, John George, will be referred to as "John G." to distinguish him from his father and his son, also both named John. In the 1890s, the family came to the U.S. It is believed that John Mudrak, the father, arrived first in about 1891, and that he went back for his family. By 1899, the entire family was in the U.S. According to the obituary of John G., the family lived first in Pennsylvania, then moved to Rock Springs, Wyoming, then came to Louisville in 1903. The 1900 census shows the family to be living in Northside, Sweetwater, Wyoming, where John Mudrak worked as a coal miner. A third child, Michael, was born that year in Wyoming. After the family came to Louisville, two more children, Mary and George, were born. John G. Mudrock went to work in the mines at age 10, according to his wife, and worked as a coal miner for about 40 years. He retired in about 1941 from the Industrial Mine, according to the family. He also operated a gas station in Louisville and worked for an elevator company in Denver. He married Anna Kochan in Louisville in 1909. Anna Kochan was born in 1890 in New York to Slovak parents. She and her family moved among mining camps in Colorado when she was young. She and John G. met in Rockvale, Colorado, where he had been working. In 1909, John and Mary Mudrak conveyed ownership of 613 Grant to their son, John G. Mudrock. This was the same year of his marriage. John Mudrak died in 1918 at the age of about 50, and Mary Mudrak died in 1939 at the age of about 67. The Boulder County Assessor card from 1950 gives 1949 as the date of construction of this house, while the Boulder County website give 1950 as the date of construction. The County has sometime been found to be in error with respect to the dates of construction of historic buildings in Louisville, so other evidence is looked to. 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 houses. "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." 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. In fact, the 1950 County Assessor card for 625 Grant stated that it was consisted of "Old house % New % ." It is possible that the house that John G. Mudrock 2