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The House Today and Current Owner The current owner, Gary Dunlap, purchased this home in 1994 following Leonard Lawrence's death. He wanted the challenge of working on an old house. His extensive restoration and remodeling have done a lot to reveal the original historical features and character of the house. The house was more or less a one story house with an attic, and the original stairs leading upstairs didn't meet code and were too steep and narrow to move furniture upstairs. The current owner made it a full two story home by raising the roof. He noted, "The intent was to maintain the original profile of the house, so adding an extra gable looks appropriate, while adding extra space and headroom." The main level has 811 square feet, the same as what was recorded as the square footage for the entire house during a property assessment by the County in 1948. Creating a second floor out of the attic added 594 square feet for a total of 1405 square feet. Gary also removed some features that had been added in the 1950s. For example, he removed the 8 foot acoustical tile ceiling and raised the ceiling back to the original nine feet. The south window had been filled in with brick, and he reinstated it. Also, original brick and plaster walls are now visible inside the home. Windows are now double paned, and with those and new insulation, the house is more energy efficient than was previously possible. Among the challenges that Gary encountered were very old 2x4 rafters, four layers of old wood shingles, and tube and spindle wiring. The original shingles on the porch roof were fancy cut shingles in scallop and trapezoid shapes. As Gary notes, "The arches in the main house between the dining room and living room, and dining room and kitchen were a complete but welcome surprise. I repeated the arches in rebuilding the first floor windows." The front door is original, as are most of the floors, plaster, and bricks. Other doors came from Resource 2000 in Boulder and Architectural Salvage in Denver. A carriage house behind the house didn't have much left to it. Gary built a garage on the site using brick from Denver's Mendoza Used Brick in an effort to match the brick in the original house. 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