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Harry Jenkins worked as a miner (starting at the age of 13), as a truck driver, and as a custodian for the Louisville grade school that was located near this house at what is today Memory Square Park. He was also chief of the fire department for a time. The following photo and ground layout sketch are from the 1948 County Assessor card for the property: FRONT Handwriting on the 1948 card states that the house "Was old PO moved onto lot here." In 1969, following the death of Harry Jenkins, the house was sold to George and Margaret Roche, then Thomas and Joanne Stevenson; Sherrill and Lani Chalk; Tommy and Vickie Culp; and then to Michael and Mary Jenkins. In 1985, it was purchased by Connie and James Green, and the Green family owned it until 2010. In 2004, the home was one of five homes on the Louisville Holiday Home Tour. The owners since 2010 are James Caleb and Katherine Dickinson. In 1985, 721 Grant was one of a number of buildings in Louisville surveyed for the Colorado Historical Society. The report stated that the building was moved from Front or Main Street and that it had been a printing office, hospital, and site of elementary school classes, and noted: "This is one structure 8