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DAA JDESIGN <br />ARCH ITECTURE+INTER IORS <br />The "wye" shown on the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map, 1155 Pine would be located at the <br />eastern end of the row of houses directly south of Short St. It appears that the house was <br />not yet built at the time this map was created in 1909. <br />Earliest Parcel History <br />Rebecca Welch sold the entire tract known as the "wye" to William J. Lee (1857-1946) for <br />$400 in 1905. Born in Wisconsin in 1857, William Lee moved to Louisville in the late 1890s <br />or early 1900s with his brother, George. They purchased land from Rebecca Welch and <br />platted the subdivision of East Louisville in 1906. This area includes Miners Field and the <br />streets of South, Walnut, Spruce, Park, and Lee between the railroad tracks and today's <br />Highway 42. They appear to have sold the house lots quickly, perhaps because of the <br />proximity of East Louisville to the Hecla, Rex 1, and Rex # 2 coal mines that were in <br />operation along the eastern edge of Louisville at the time. It is not known why William Lee <br />did not plat the land he owned inside of the "wye." According to the book of memoirs <br />written by his grandson, William Lee early on built four houses in this area on the north <br />side of Pine Street to the east of the main tracks. William Lee also sold the site for the <br />Ernest Grill & Co. lumber yard next to the railroad tracks. In the map shown above, the <br />houses are the four easternmost buildings, while the two buildings on the west side are <br />believed to have been associated with the lumber yard. <br />1155 PINE ST, PAGE - 7 <br />