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Resource Number: 5BL 11323 Temporary Resource Number: 157508405014 27. Builder/Contractor: Unknown Source of information: NA 28. Original owner: Thomas and Sarah Lynch Source of information: Boulder County property records 29. Construction history (include description and dates of major additions, alterations, or demolitions): It is unclear whether this house was the original house on the property, or if it is an early replacement for an original house. There was a house at this location by 1897. It is not shown on the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map, but based on census data, this omission may be an error. The exterior of the house was finished with stucco by 1948, but it seems unlikely that this was the original material. Family history indicates that the basement is not original, but it was in place by 1948. At unknown dates after 1950, the windows were replaced, the front porch was rebuilt, the porch roof was replaced with an awning, and the chimney was removed. In 1975, window wells were added and a fence removed. 30. Original location X Moved Date of move(s): V. HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS 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 was the home of one of Louisville's Italian families, the Madonna family, for ninety-one years, from 1918 to 2009. Bartel (the name has also been given as Barth) Banzek acquired this property from Jefferson Place developer Charles Welch in 1894. No other information regarding Banzek was located. Thomas Lynch acquired the property from Banzek in 1897, two months after his marriage to Sarah Harris. Thomas was born in Texas in 1868 of Irish heritage. Sarah was born in England in 1878. The property at 701 Walnut is strongly believed to have been the location of the Lynch home. Not only was this was the only property owned by Thomas or Sarah Lynch in Louisville, but Thomas Lynch's residential address was given as "Walnut & Jefferson" in the 1904 directory for Louisville. Louisville directories show that at first, Lynch was a miner, and he worked at the Rex Mine No. 1. He then became the proprietor of one or more livery businesses, first "Lynch & Harris, Livery," then "Louisville Livery Barn." According to the 1900 federal census for Louisville, Thomas and Sarah had two young daughters, Hannah and Inez. By 1910, still in Louisville, they had added two more children, Hazel and Ralph, to their family (and Inez's name appears to have been recorded as "Enid" in 1910). In 1910, they also had a boarder living with them: James Kelley, whose job was to be a teamster in a livery stable (presumably Lynch's livery stable). It is believed that the Lynch home was at the location of 701 Walnut in 1900 and 1910, based on the identities of the people listed as living around them. Census records indicate that Thomas Lynch died between 1910 and 1920. The 1920 census records show Sarah Lynch to be living with two of their children in Boulder, where she was working as a housekeeper in a hotel. Boulder County gives 1900 as an estimated date of construction for this house. 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), so these maps cannot shed light on the question of the construction date for 701 Walnut. 3