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had the house built, so the construction date given to the County Assessor was likely not <br />based on personal knowledge. It is believed that the house was built a few years earlier <br />than 1913. First, a house or a portion of a house does appear on Lot 6 on the 1909 <br />Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville, so it appears that an original structure was being built <br />by 1909. In addition, the Weaver family is shown as living in Louisville in the 1910 <br />federal census, and they are shown as being the owners, though their exact home <br />location can't be determined from the census information. Last, the architectural <br />inventory record done for 823 Garfield gives the construction date as 1910 despite a <br />differing date from the County. For the foregoing reasons, the estimated date of <br />construction is 1910. <br />Weaver Family Ownership, 1909-1946 <br />Mary I. Todd Weaver (1867-1937) and her husband, John (1851-1926), married and had <br />their children in Nebraska. They followed Mary's brother, Otto Todd, to Louisville. Their <br />children were Ray (1886-1954); Arthur (1889-1910); Ruth (1891-1987); and Earl (1901- <br />death date unknown). According to the 1910 and 1920 census records, John Weaver <br />worked as a teamster. These photos show the couple: <br />A 1983 article about 823 Garfield that appeared in the Louisville Times <br />(https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=LVT19830302- <br />01.2.55&srpos=9&e= en-20--1--txt-txIN-%22823+garfield%22 0-) also gives the <br />construction date of 1910 and stated: "The couple [John and Mary Weaver] contracted <br />a carpenter named Unger to build the house, according to Weaver's daughter, Ruth <br />Machin, of Boulder. The Victorian [823 Garfield] is believed to be the first Louisville <br />home to install indoor plumbing and perhaps was first to have central heating. 'I <br />remember playing in the house as a child,' said Machin's daughter Sylvia Mason, who <br />added that the property was purchased in [Mary Weaver's] name (unusual for that era) <br />because she had received a Nebraska inheritance used for the purchase." <br />2 <br />