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The Hawkins' daughter, Gloria, talked about what the yard used to look like. She said <br />that a one -car garage used to be on the alley. Also in the back yard were a coal house, <br />wood shed, outhouse, and ash pit, plus a large garden that went from the house all the <br />way to the current garage and all the way back to the alley. Where the current garage is <br />was the location of a chicken yard where they raised chickens to eat. <br />Daughter Gloria said that there wasn't a bathroom when she grew up in the house. The <br />bathroom was likely added in the early 1950s when Louisville voters passed a bond issue <br />to fund a sewage system for the town. <br />The Rasmuson/Hawkins house didn't have a furnace when Henry and Flora Hawkins <br />raised their family. The family had a coal stove in the kitchen and a heater in the living <br />room. <br />The Hawkins' daughter, Gloria, said, "It's a special house. It never was fancy, but it was <br />home. We were warm and fed and happy. Even though it was crowded, we never <br />thought of it that way." <br />The following photo of the building is from the County Assessor Card and is believed to <br />date from 1948: <br />The following is the ground layout of the house as shown on the County Assessor card, <br />with the blue markings believed to date from 1948 and the red markings from the <br />1950s: <br />