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IL: <br />City0r <br />Louisville <br />Bridget Bacon <br />Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />November 2021 <br />COLORADO F SINCE 1878 <br />633 McKinley Ave. History <br />Legal Description: Lots 1 & 2, Block 10, Louisville Heights Addition <br />Year of Construction: 1913 <br />Summary: This home was built at the western edge of Louisville on the corner of <br />McKinley Ave. and Pine Street. The house is believed to have been constructed in three <br />sections. For many decades, Pine Street ended at around that intersection, and this was <br />one of the last homes one would see on Pine before the street ended. Beyond it to the <br />west was undeveloped land. <br />Development of the Louisville Heights Subdivision; Date of Construction <br />The Louisville Heights Addition in which this house sits was first developed in 1904 by <br />the Colorado Mortgage & Investment Co. Ltd. In 1905, the company conveyed many <br />of the lots in the Louisville Heights subdivision to Louisville residents John Affolter and <br />Dr. Charles Wolfer. <br />Related to the history of Block 10 of Louisville Heights are the facts that the Corrigan <br />addition to its west was platted in 1908 and that the Drumm's 1909 Map of Louisville <br />shows that there were no houses on any of these lots at that time. In fact, the majority <br />of their lots remained undeveloped for several decades, but they had common <br />ownership for a long time. The following excerpt of the 1909 shows these empty lots: <br />1 <br />