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Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />August 2013; updated February 2014 <br />ILZ Cityof <br />Louisville <br />COLORAnO • SINCE 187E <br />623 Garfield Ave. History <br />Legal Description: South Y Lot 5 and all of Lots 6 and 7, Block 11, Louisville Heights <br />Subdivision <br />Year of Construction: The original year of construction of this relocated house could not <br />be located, but since sources indicate that it is a former mine camp house, it likely dates <br />from the early 1900s. <br />Summary: This home is a relocated house from a mine camp, moved to its current <br />location in 1945 or 1946. <br />Development of the Louisville Heights Subdivision <br />The Louisville Heights Addition in which this house sits was platted in 1904 by the <br />Colorado Mortgage and Investment Co. Ltd. The property was then owned by <br />Dr. Charles Wolfer and John Affolter, business partners and developers who had <br />purchased most or all of the blocks in Louisville Heights in 1905 from the Colorado <br />Mortgage and Investment Co. Ltd. <br />Stones/Scarpella Family Ownership for Fifty -Eight Years <br />According to several older area residents who remember this home as well as a person <br />whose parents were the residents of the home starting in 1946, this house was <br />relocated from a mine camp by William and Nora Clark. <br />Following the establishment of the Louisville Heights subdivision in 1904, the lots at 623 <br />Garfield and the ones just to the north and south of them were vacant for an extended <br />period of time. From 1910 to 1923, the lots at 623 Garfield were owned by Louisville <br />resident Joseph Lackner, and from 1923 to 1940, they were owned by Louisville resident <br />Frank Nortnik. <br />