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L <br />City <br />Louisville <br />Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />October 2014 <br />COLORADO - SINCE 1878 <br />725 Lincoln Ave. History <br />Legal Description: Lots 5-6 & S 10 ft of Lot 4, Block 9, Pleasant Hill Addition <br />Year of Construction: circa 1900-1904 <br />Summary: This was the home of Martin Black and Lizzie Thirlaway Black. Black lived <br />here for 33 years. He was a union organizer during the coal mine wars of 1910-1914. <br />Several other owners and residents of the house worked in the coal mining industry in <br />Louisville. <br />Orrin T. Welch and the Establishment of the Pleasant Hill Addition <br />The subdivision in which 725 Lincoln is located is the Pleasant Hill Addition. This addition <br />was platted and recorded with Boulder County in 1894 by Orrin T. Welch. Orrin Welch <br />was the half-brother of Charles C. Welch, the prominent Colorado businessman who <br />played the major role in the founding of Louisville and the opening of its first coal mine, <br />the Welch Mine, back in the 1870s. Welch also established the Jefferson Place Addition <br />in Louisville. In the 1890s, Charles Welch was still involved in the development of the <br />town, in this case through the transfer of property to his half-brother, Orrin, in 1893. <br />Swanberger & Elberson Ownership (1904-1915); Discussion of Date of Construction <br />Online County property records showing the dates when deeds were recorded with the <br />County show that Orrin Welch (the half-brother of Charles C. Welch) sold the parcel, <br />consisting of lots 5 and 6, to Lydia Swanberger (spelled as Swamberger in the records) in <br />1904. Also in 1904, Lydia Swanberger granted a deed of trust to McAllister Supply & <br />Lumber Co. In 1908, Lydia Swanberger further acquired Lots 7 & 8 to the south of 725 <br />Lincoln from Jeanette Welch, the wife of Charles C. Welch. <br />Lydia Swanberger was born in Ohio in 1867, and her husband, Fred, was born in Ohio in <br />1865. He worked as a carpenter. In 1905, Fred was a trustee of the Louisville Baptist <br />Church located at 701 Grant, not far from their home at 725 Lincoln. <br />1 <br />