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5 The following image has been cropped from the 1948 Boulder County Assessor card photo for 625 Lincoln, the house next door. It is included here because it shows the south side of the house at 637 Lincoln. The Feb. 9, 1978 issue of the Louisville Times (available here on the Colorado Historic Newspapers website: https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/ ) included a profile of 637 Lincoln, entitled “Home of Mrs. Leah Fauson,” as the first in a series about historic buildings in Louisville. Here is an excerpt: A roof line that is typical of many homes in Louisville is the fourpaneled roof which rises to a flat area in the middle. Two homes in town still are topped by a wood fence around the flat middle, but on all other homes the fence seems to have long ago been removed. The home of Mrs. Leah Fauson, at 637 Lincoln, is one of the older homes in town which have been virtually untouched in remodeling projects, and among the many old details is the fence at the top of her roof. The fence was probably a decorative addition, although one workman suggested that it might have been put there to aid in making repairs to the chimney. The Fauson home is built on a foundation of boulders, with floor supports also constructed of boulders. The fine oak woodwork, which was lavishly used in the four basic rooms of the house, has been left unpainted and unvarnished. While in recent decades the oak woodwork in many homes was considered to be too old-fashioned, the soft natural color of the oak was not altered in the Fauson home and looks, once again, beautifully “modern." The County Assessor’s records for 637 Lincoln say that the house dates from 1900. The Assessor's records say that many of the old Louisville houses were built that year, however, so 1900 may just be an arbitrary date “near to” the correct-date. The late Nellie Wolfer Willis told Mrs. Fauson that the house was built in 1904 for Dr. Wolfer.