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Resource Number: 5BL7966 Temporary Resource Number: NIA Architectural Inventory Form (Page 2 of 5) 21. General Architectural Description I 23. Landscape or setting special features: This property is located on the east side of Resting on a low concrete foundation, this building features Front Street, at the south end of downtown painted pale yellow horizontal wood siding, with painted pale Louisville. The Louisville Post Office is located green 1" by 4" corner boards. The north elevation, however, has across Front Street to the west, while the Pine been stuccoed. The building is covered by an intersecting gables Street Junction tavern is located to the northeast roof,with green asphalt shingles,and boxed eaves. On the facade of this building. An asphalt parking lot for the (west elevation),the eaves feature alternating dark green and pale Pine Street Junction is to the north of this green decorative elements. There is no chimney. Original building. windows are primarily 1/1 double-hung sash, with painted pale ,i green wood frames and surrounds, and some are topped by non- original sunburst motifs. A gable-roofed rectangular bay window on the facade features one set of paired 1/1 double-hung sash 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects windows,and two single 1/1 double-hung sash windows. Windows n/a on the building's east elevation, including one small lxl horizontal slider, and three single-light fixed-panes, are not historic. The building's primary entrance is located at the south end of the facade. Here, a glass-in-wood-frame atrium door opens onto a 10' by 9'concrete porch, covered by a gabled porch roof with turned IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY column supports. The gable end of the porch roof features fishscale shingles. An 8' by 6' hipped roof addition to the 25. Date of Construction: building's southeast corner predates 1950. Estimate c1890 Actual Source of information: 41 Sanborn map, 1893 26. Architect: n/a Source of information: n/a 27. Builder/ Contractor: Herman H. Fischer (probably) Source in formation: mation: "Joseph Lackner 1857-1937" manuscript 29.Construction History (include description and dates of major additions, alterations, or demolitions: 28. Original owner: Sanborn fire insurance maps indicate that this property was • Joseph Lackner initially developed prior to 1893, with an L-shaped dwelling, a 11 small outbuilding located just south of the house, and a very large Source of information: building located at the rear of the lot, to the west. This structure • "Joseph Lackner 1857-1937" manuscript is labeled "Sal." (Saloon). By 1908, the dwelling had been enlarged to its current footprint, although a 24' by 6'extension to 30. Original location: yes the east elevation was removed sometime after 1950. The two • Moved no other buildings that appear on the 1893 and 1900 Sanborn maps Date of move(s) n/a had been removed by 1908, probably when Joseph Lackner's Germanai House saloon was built next door to the north in 1900. Iii