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Resource Number: 5BL7972 Temporary Resource Number: N/A Architectural Inventory Form (Page 2 of 5) 21. General Architectural Description 23. Landscape or setting special features: This property is located on the west side of This wood frame house rests on a painted pale yellow concrete Front Street, east of downtown Louisville. The foundation, and features painted pale yellow horizontal planted grass front yard to the east is enclosed weatherboard exterior walls, with 1"by 4"corner boards. Painted by a picket fence. A 4'-wide concrete sidewalk yellow fishscale shingles appear in the upper gable end on the is separated from the curb by a grass strip east elevation. The building is covered by an intersecting gables ' paralleling Front Street to the east. roof, with brown asphalt shingles and boxed eaves. A red brick chimney is located on the exterior of the north elevation, and a non-historic boxed chimney is located on the ridge. Windows on a the building's facade (east elevation)include a band of three, and 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects one set of paired, double-hung sash windows, with painted white Garage f wood frames and painted blue wood surrounds. On the south elevation,there are two non-original glass block windows,while on the north elevation there is a single 1/1 double-hung window, and a small 6x6 horizontal sliding bathroom window. A painted blue ' solid wood door, with a wood screen door, opens onto a wood IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY porch which covers the south half of the facade. The porch features a wood plank floor, an open wood balustrade, and a shed 25. Date of Construction: roof, supported by chamfered 4" by 4" wood posts. An enclosed Estimate ca. 1890 (original portion) hipped-roof rear porch addition, on the building's west elevation, Actual predates 1950. This addition features two horizontal sliding windows, and one large single-light fixed-pane window, as well as Source of information: a bubble skylight. A painted blue wood door opens from the Sanborn maps enclosed porch onto a flagstone patio in the backyard. A large non historic Garage /Workshop is located to the west of 26. Architect: the house, and features wood frame construction and a side gable n/a roof. The garage's exterior walls are vertical wood siding. Two • overhead garage doors, and a single entry door, open onto a Source of information: concrete driveway which extends to the alley to the west. n/a I 27. Builder/ Contractor: unknown Source of information: n/a 28. Original owner: 29.Construction History (include description and dates of major additions, unknown alterations, or demolitions: Sanborn insurance maps dated 1893, 1900, and 1908, provide Source of information: evidence that the first house on this lot was built before 1893. The n/a dwelling depicted on the Sanborn maps was a rectangular structure in the same location as the extant house, however with 30. Original location: yes a different configuration. The current house is probably comprised Moved no of the original, pre-1993 structure, incorporated into a new L- shaped „••;; dwelling sometime after 1908. The 26' by 7' enclosed hipped-roof rear porch addition to the west elevation predates circa 1950. 11