600 Jefferson Ave Historic Survey

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Resource Number: 5BL 11287 Temporary Resource Number: 157508435010 18. Roof configuration: Side gabled 19. Primary external roof material: Asphalt roof, composition 20. Special features: Fence, porch, car port, garage, chimney (at cabin) 21. General architectural description: 600 Jefferson is a simple one-story wood frame house that faces west to Jefferson Avenue. The exterior is clad with composition lap siding painted white. Most of the trim is painted white. The foundation is sandstone, lightly parged with concrete. The original rectangular cabin has a side gabled roof with green asphalt shingles. The entrance has a concrete stoop, 2 concrete steps with rounded edges a black metal stair railing and a concrete walk. The door is a wooden door painted bright green with three upper, vertically oriented lights. The door has projecting wooden head trim painted white. There is a green storm/screen door. Over the stoop there is a small projecting gabled hood on wood braces. The gable has a shallow arched inset soffit painted green. South of the door is a wood sash fixed "picture"window flanked with double-hung windows. North of the door is a double hung wood sash. Window trim is painted dark green and the façade windows are shaded by green composition slat awnings in black wrought iron frames. The north side of the original house has one pair of historic wood slider windows and one pair of non-historic small aluminum sliders. The cabin has several additions. An addition at the southeast corner has a shallow-slope gable roof and a painted concrete masonry foundation. Three steps lead to a small concrete stoop and a brown wooden door with three upper lights, with an aluminum storm/screen door identified with the initial "R". This addition has aluminum windows, one fixed and one casement. The east (rear) side of the house has two separated, projecting additions with shed roofs. Between these additions there is a patio that is shaded by a shed roof on black wrought-iron posts. The shed roof has a skylight opening with an operable fiberglass panel. 22. Architectural style/building type: Other style: wood frame side gable 23. Landscaping or special setting features: Landscape or special setting description: Jefferson Place Subdivision is a historic residential neighborhood adjacent to downtown Louisville. The subdivision is laid out on a standard urban grid of narrow, deep lots with rear alleys. Houses are built to a fairly consistent setback line along the streets with small front lawns, deep rear yards and mature landscaping. Small, carefully maintained single- family residences predominate. Most of the houses are wood framed, one or one and one-half stories in height, featuring white or light-colored horizontal wood or steel siding, gabled or hipped asphalt shingled roofs and front porches. While many of the houses have been modified over the years, most of the historic character-defining features have been preserved. 600 Jefferson Avenue is consistent with these patterns and blends well with the scale and character of the neighborhood. The south side of the property is one of several locations in Jefferson Place where an east-west alley existed in the original plat. These alleys were vacated in the 1980s and ownership was deeded to the adjacent owners. The vacated alleys are still visible and mostly used for private off-street parking. Although 600 Jefferson visually appears to be a mid-block lot, it is situated at the south boundary of the Jefferson Place subdivision. The front yard is small, grassy and open to the street. A large side yard to the south is enclosed with chain link fencing. The back yard is grassy and enclosed with a combination of chain link fencing and wire fencing. There is a split concrete driveway and car port at the south side of the house, leading to Jefferson. The back of the house has a concrete patio and a concrete sidewalk leading to the barn, which has an unpaved parking area adjacent to it. 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects: South of the house, there is a non-historic carport over the split concrete driveway. It is an open structure with a low-slope gable roof of green corrugated fiberglass, supported on six black wrought iron posts. Behind the house there are two historic structures with very high integrity. At the southeast corner of the lot, there is a barn or garage with white painted vertical wood batten siding, a gable roof with gray asphalt roll roofing, and an overhanging roof supported by six wood posts, over lumber storage racks. There is a pair of large swinging service doors, wood with battens and historic strap hinges. 2