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• A Preservation and Restoration Grant of up to $40,000.00 <br />• A New Construction Grant of up to $15,000.00 <br />ARCHITECTURAL INTEGRITY: <br />The house is vernacular in style and originally had a pyramidal hipped roof. After the house <br />was moved from Superior to its current location in 1943, an addition was constructed on the rear <br />of the house. The overall form has been maintained since the addition, including the chimney in <br />the center of the pyramid. A front porch was added sometime after 1948. <br />Most of the original materials have been lost, including the siding and roofing material. The <br />window openings appear to have been maintained since at least 1948. <br />The book Lost Superior: Remembering the Architectural Heritage of a Colorado Coal Mining <br />Town by the Superior Historical Commission came out in 2014 and included a page about 509 <br />LaFarge as a relocated house that was moved from Superior to Louisville. It included the <br />following text: <br />This is a typical hipped box mine camp house which usually had a front porch. <br />The original porch has been altered but the original form and scale are intact. It <br />appears as though the original wood siding has been covered with vinyl siding. <br />Photo of 509 LaFarge Avenue from the 1948 Assessor's Card. <br />6 <br />