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Resource Number: 5BL 11313 Temporary Resource Number: 157508426011 31. Original use(s): Domestic, Single Dwelling 32. Intermediate use(s): N/A 33. Current use(s): Domestic, Single Dwelling 34. Site type(s): Urban residence 35. Historical background: This building is part of Jefferson Place, the first residential subdivision in Louisville. This property at 701 Pine was the residence of the Carveth family and then became associated with the Summers family for over 50 years. The first owner of this property, after Jefferson Place developer Charles Welch, was William R. Wylam, in 1885. Online property records indicate that Helen I. Andrews then owned it from 1886 to 1891. She was married to Lyman Andrews, who with John Chambers operated a general merchandise store in downtown Louisville in the 1880s. The two couples also engaged in a number of real estate transactions in Louisville, and the brick Miners Trading Co. building constructed on the northwest corner of Pine and Main is believed to have been owned and operated by Helen and Lyman Andrews and John and Merabeth Chambers. By 1891, this property was purchased by Mary Ann Comiskey Murphy. Married to Peter J. Murphy, she was an early Louisville pioneer. She was born in 1845, and most sources state that she was born in Ireland. They are believed to have come to the US in 1869 and were in Louisville by 1880. However, she is believed to have lived elsewhere than on this site. The following photo shows Mary Ann Comiskey Murphy: The County gives 1900 as an estimated date of construction for this house. Boulder County has sometimes been found to be in error with respect to historic buildings in Louisville. In this case, there is no indication either way of whether the house was actually constructed in 1900. The property in question is outside of the boundaries of the Sanborn Maps that were done for Louisville in 1893, 1900, and 1908 (they focused on the downtown business district and La Farge Avenue only). The house at 701 Pine does appear in the correct location on the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville and on the Methodist Church Map of Louisville that was made in circa 1923-25. Mary Ann Murphy died in 1909 as a result of a runaway horse accident. Following her death, her heirs conveyed the property to her daughter, Elizabeth Murphy Ellis (c. 1871-1966), who owned the property from 1909 to 1914. She was married to Elmer Ellis. However, it is not known whether they lived at this location. The next owner of the house, from 1914 to 1918, was Frank Carveth. Carveth was a miner and merchant who, with his brother and cousin, owned and operated Carveth Bros. & Dalby, which was a store located in today's State Mercantile Building at 801 Main Street (5BL961.6) in Louisville. 3