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DAJDESIGN <br />ARCHITECTURE, INTERIORS <br />2.0 HISTORY AND USE <br />The following report is taken from the Colorado Cultural Resource Survey, Cultural Resource Re-evaluation <br />Form provided by the Louisville Historical Museum. <br />History of 741 Jefferson (Louisville's Methodist Church) <br />This report is intended to supplement and update the 2000 survey that was conducted with respect to the <br />history of the Methodist Church at 741 Jefferson. This church was the second church building in Louisville and <br />is the oldest church still meeting in its original building. <br />�vA When Charles Welch conveyed this property in 1891 to the "Methodist Episcopal Church" for the construction of <br />� a church building, it likely made sense for it to be located on Spruce, which was developing into the major east - <br />west street in downtown Louisville. Maps and firsthand accounts indicate that Spruce was at the time a through <br />street to the west, and Pine was not (whereas today, Pine is a through street, and Spruce is not.) By the early to <br />mid 1900s, Spruce as it passed through the Jefferson Place Addition included the offices of the Louisville Times <br />at 800/804 Spruce, a very nearby store at 805 La Farge, the William Austin store at the northeast corner of <br />Spruce and Jefferson, the Methodist Church at 741 Jefferson, and the Louisville grade school. Farther west on <br />Spruce were the brick school house at 801 Grant and the German Lutheran Church at Spruce and McKinley. <br />The following photo shows the relationship of the Methodist Church (on the left) to the Louisville Grade School <br />across Spruce to the north; it was taken in 1961, not long before the school was demolished: <br />741 JEFFERSON PAGE - 6 <br />