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According to a letter written by son Frank Pickering and posted by Pickering family members on Ancestry.com, the family moved to Louisville because Jane Pickering's cousin was a Louisville blacksmith, Samuel Paige, whose wife died in 1894. As Frank Pickering wrote, "... we left by covered wagon for Louisville, Colo. as Sam Page, mother's cousin was a widower with a teenage daughter. My mother went there to help Sam Page with his daughter. It did not work out but we moved to Louisville, Colo., then a coal mining town and considered tough, in the fall of 1897." Boulder County has given 1900 as the year of construction on both the County website and on the 1948 County Assessor card. However, the 1948 Assessor card also has handwriting that states that the house was "48+" years of age, which suggests that the year 1900 was an estimate. The fact that the Pickering family is shown in this location in the 1900 census confirms that the house was built by 1900, but it could have been constructed even earlier, as they bought the property as soon as they arrived in Louisville in late 1897. More specific information as to the exact year of construction could not be located, but "circa 1898-1900" would be a reasonable estimate based on this evidence. The Historical Survey completed in 1900 noted that the County gave 1900 as the date of construction and concluded that "this date is at least generally plausible, given the building's architectural character and appearance," and noted that some renovation work may have been done in around 1980. This property is just outside of the area covered by the 1893, 1900, and 1908 Sanborn maps. The house is shown on the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville. The Pickering family was not listed in the 1910 census for Louisville, and the identities of the house's residents at that time are not known. Isaac Pickering died in 1917 and Frank Pickering sold the property in that year to William Koch.