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Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />August 2010; updated June 2013 <br />LCityof <br />Louisville <br />COLORADO - SINCE 1878 <br />401 County Road, Louisville, Colorado <br />According to the Boulder County Assessor's website, the property at 401 County Road <br />occupies Lot 2 less the north 46 feet, Block 3, Murphy Place in Louisville. The County <br />Assessor's records state that the house was built in 1908. There is a house indicated as <br />being in this location on the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville at the Historical <br />Museum, which supports the 1908 construction date. <br />Peter F. Murphy and the Establishment of the Murphy Place Subdivision <br />Peter F. Murphy platted the subdivision of Murphy Place in 1907. He did so as President <br />of the Louisville Realty & Securities Company. <br />His father was also named Peter Murphy, and it appears that it was the father who <br />obtained a land patent on local farm land from the State of Colorado in 1891. His son <br />Peter is likely to have inherited it when the elder Murphy died in 1904. (Therefore, both <br />Peter Murphys appear to have at different times been the owners of the hill called <br />"Murphy's Hill" that extends south and east of Louisville as well as the property that is <br />now Community Park and the property that became the Murphy Place subdivision.) <br />Giles/Phillips Ownership, 1907 - 1943 <br />B. Franklin ("Frank") Giles acquired Lot 2, Block 3 in 1907, the same year that Murphy <br />Place was platted. It seems very likely that the 1908 date of house construction given by <br />the County is correct, especially since there was already a structure on this corner by the <br />time that the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map was made. <br />Frank Giles (1863-1942) and Etta Sadler Giles (1874-1954) were from Pennsylvania and <br />Frank was a coal miner. They had three children: Ella, Franklin Jr., and Lottie. Frank and <br />