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Bridget Bacon <br />Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />October 2021 <br />I u Cityq Im Louisville <br />COLORADO • SINCE 1878 <br />600 Lincoln Avenue History <br />Legal Description: Lots 11 & 12, Block 11, Pleasant Hill Addition, Louisville, Colorado <br />Year of Construction: 1904 <br />Summary: This was the home of Paul Petrun and Mary Sirokman Petrun of Slovakia, and their <br />family, for 65 years. <br />Development of the Pleasant Hill Addition <br />The subdivision in which this house is located, the Pleasant Hill Addition, was platted in 1894. <br />The subdivision was developed in the name of Orrin Welch, the half-brother of Charles C. <br />Welch. Charles Welch was the person most responsible for the establishment of Louisville in <br />1878 after he established the first coal mine in this area in 1877. Orrin Welch is not known to <br />have ever lived in Colorado, and it is Charles C. Welch who is thought to have been the de facto <br />developer. <br />Petrun Family Ownership, 1904-1969; Date of Construction <br />Paul Petrun (1866-1959) purchased these lots from Orrin Welch in 1904 and appears to have <br />built the house the same year. <br />Paul Petrun and Mary Sirokman (1870-1968) married in Zaluzice, Slovakia in 1890. Their first <br />child, John, was born in Zaluzice in 1891. Paul Petrun came to Louisville that year, also, <br />according to his 1959 obituary as well as a news item in the Louisville Times in 1950 regarding <br />their 59th wedding anniversary. In the following year, 1892, Mary and their son joined Paul by <br />coming to Louisville accompanied by Mary's brother, George Sirokman. (The Sirokman family <br />came to have a strong presence in Louisville, as two other of their siblings also came to live in <br />the town.) <br />1 <br />