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2 In this case, the year appears to be rounded off, indicating that it i s an estimate and perhaps not an exact year. This house was profiled in a 1978 article in the Louisville Times that specifically discussed the date of construction. According to the article, excerpted elsewhere in this report, Nelle Wolfer Willis (1890-1976) told later owner Leah Fauson that the house was built in 1904 for Nelle’s father, Charles F. Wolfer. This information is consistent with Wolfer’s ownership of the lots extending from 1903 to 1905. Moreover, the deed documenting Wolfer’s sale of the two lots in 1905 to Edwin Carveth states that they were sold for $1,250, indicating that a house had likely been constructed on the property since the time of Wolfer’s purchase of the lots in 1903. For these reasons, the date of construction is believed to be 1904. The house appears on the 1909 Drumm’s Wall Map of Louisville, confirming that it was standing by 1909, but also showing that at that time, there was only one house standing to the west of these houses south of Pine and on the west side of Lincoln. For many decades, Pine Street ended at around McKinley, so the area where 637 Lincoln is located did not experience through traffic until about 1981 when the City of Louisville extended Pine Street to the west from downtown. Carveth Family Ownership, 1905-1936 Edwin Carveth (1876-1909) purchased this property in 1905 and settled in the home with his wife, Carrie Thiel Carveth (1875-1960), and baby daughter, Edna (1904-1966). Edwin Carveth had come to Louisville from Iowa in 1890 with his family; Carrie Thiel had come to Boulder County from Ohio in the 1870s as a young child. They were married in 1899. Census records from 1900 show that Edwin was working as a telegraph operator. Records show that Edwin Carveth started to go into the retail business with his two brothers and their cousin, George Dalby, but then Edwin died in 1909 when he was in his early 30s. Following his death, his partners began the business “Carveth Bros. & Dalby,” which was a general merchandise store located for years in the State Mercantile Building o n Main Street. Following Edwin Carveth’s death, his widow, Carrie, had to find ways to support herself and her daughter. Records indicate that Carrie worked as a dressmaker out of this home for a time. The 1920 census records show that she had a boarder, George Cable. Carrie Carveth also operated a small grocery store on Main Street throughout the 1920s. As a young adult, Edna Carveth moved to California and married. Carrie later moved there to be with her daughter. The two following photos show a fourteen-year-old Edna Carveth in the yard of 637 Lincoln. (These photos are from a photo album of the Romeo family, who lived one block to the west at 701 Garfield.) The Baptist Church at the corner of Pine & Grant, a block to the east, can be seen in the background of the second photo.