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Resource Number: 5BL7980 Temporary Resource Number NIA Architectural inventory Form (Page 2 of 5) 21. General Architectural Description Located on the west side of LaFarge Avenue, the Colacci House is a wood -frame residence supported by a low concrete foundation. An unfenced planted grass front yard is located east and south of the house, while a planted grass backyard, to the west, is enclosed by a chain link fence. A concrete sidewalk, which parallels LaFarge Avenue, is separated from the curb by a narrow strip of grass. The house's exterior walls are undulated asbestos shingle siding. An intersecting gables roof has boxed eaves, and is covered with grey asphalt shingles. One red brick chimney is located on the exterior of the north elevation. Original windows are primarily single and paired 1,1 double -hung sash, with painted white wood frames and surrounds, and with exterior metal storm windows. A single -light fixed -pane window is located on the facade, and two 1x1 horizontal sliding windows are located on the south elevation. The house's front entry is located on the east elevation, where a solid wood door, with a white metal storm door, opens onto a non -original wood porch. The porch wraps around to cover part of the south elevation, and at its north end, it is covered by a hipped porch roof with painted white turned columns, and an open wood balustrade with turned balusters. A 19' by 10', shed - roofed, enclosed rear entry porch is located at the west end of the south elevation. A painted white wood -paneled door, with a white metal storm door, opens onto a concrete sidewalk on the house's west elevation. A single -car Garage is located on the alley to the west of the house. This building features a concrete slab foundation and floor, concrete block walls, and a moderately -pitched front gable roof, with gray asphalt shingles and boxed eaves. A red brick chimney is located on the exterior of the east elevation. Two 8 -light hopper windows, with painted white wood frames and surrounds, are located on the south elevation. One non -original single -light fixed - pane window is located on the east elevation. A white metal roll- away garage door opens onto the asphalt paved alley on the west elevation. a painted blue wood -paneled door, is located on the north elevation. 23. Landscape or setting special features: The Colacci property is located on the wes side of the 700 block of LaFarge Avenue, west o downtown, in Louisville's oldest residentia neighborhood. 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects Garage 29.Constructfon History (include description and dates of major additions, alterations, or demolitions: Boulder County Assessor records list 1900 as this house's year of construction. Sanborn insurance maps, however, provide evidence that the house was actually built prior to 1893. The house is depicted on the 1893 Sanborn map, and it was presumably built sometime between when the Jefferson Place Addition was platted, and 1893. Additions to the west (rear) elevation, and to the west end of the south elevation, predate the 1960s. IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 25. Date of Construction: Estimate ca. 1890 Actual Source of information. Sanborn Insurance map, 1893 26. Architect: ala Source of information: nfa 27. Builder/ Contractor: unknown Source of information: nfa 28. Original owner: unknown Source of Information: nfa 30. Original location: Moved Date of move(s) yes no nfa