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Jefferson. Both Inez's father Battista Zioni (1877-1958) and Rudolph Paxton worked as coal miners. Rudolph and Inez had two sons, Carl Paxton (b. 1932) and John Paxton who was born in 1941. Inez died in 1942 at the age of 27. Rudolph Paxton is listed in the 1946 Boulder County Directory as living at 1255 Jefferson, where John Paxton lived as a child. John also attended Louisville High School and served three years in the Army before working as an engineer for Denver Hilton Hotel. In 1964, John Paxton and Frankie Jean Browning were married and they purchased the three lots for 824 Lee for $1,000. At that time, the lot was still undeveloped. According to an oral history of Frankie Paxton collected by Jean Morgan, the Paxtons purchased a house from an Erie mine and moved it to the lot on Lee Avenue. Current Boulder County records list 1935 as the year the house at 824 Lee was built, however, the house itself was not moved to Louisville until 1964. The detached garage and fencing around the lot were added in the 1970s and 1980s. Boulder County Assessor image from 2004. Current Ownership, 2004 - present In 2004, Frankie Paxton sold 824 Lee to Michael Reis, and Gregory and Douglas Evans. A Louisville Times notice from 2006 lists 824 Lee as available to rent and it is primarily used as a rental property today. Currently, 824 Lee sits next door to two historic cabins known as the Trott -Downer cabins. The cabins are owned by the City of Louisville and are part of the Louisville Historical Museum's historical interpretation of the Miner's Field area representing Louisville's growth and development from the 1930s-1970s.