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Bridget Bacon <br />Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />August 2021 <br />I U City�f <br />Om Louisville <br />COLORADO . SINCE 1878 <br />601 McKinley Ave. History <br />Legal Description: South 10 feet of Lot 7 and all of Lots 8 & 9, Block 10, Louisville <br />Heights subdivision <br />Year of Construction: 1947 <br />Summary: Ralph and Helen Grunkemeyer had this house constructed in 1947. He was <br />the town druggist at the Bungalow Drug Store on Main Street for twenty years, from <br />about 1934 until 1954. After his death in 1954, Helen continued to live with their <br />children at 601 McKinley and sold the house in 1977. <br />Development of the Louisville Heights Subdivision; Date of Construction <br />The Louisville Heights Addition in which this house sits was first developed in 1904 by <br />the Colorado Mortgage & Investment Co. Ltd. In 1905, the company conveyed many <br />of the lots in the Louisville Heights subdivision to Louisville residents John Affolter and <br />Dr. Charles Wolfer. <br />Related to the history of Block 10 of Louisville Heights are the facts that the Corrigan <br />addition to its west was platted in 1908 and that the Drumm's 1909 Map of Louisville <br />shows that there were no houses on any of these lots at that time. In fact, the majority <br />of their lots remained undeveloped for several decades, but they had common <br />ownership for a long time. The following excerpt of the 1909 shows these empty lots: <br />1 <br />