613 Jefferson Ave Historic Survey

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Resource Number: 5BL 11289 Temporary Resource Number: 157508434005 19. Primary external roof material: Asphalt 20. Special features: Porch, fence, garage 21. General architectural description: 613 Jefferson is a one-story wood-frame building, rectangular in plan and facing east to LaFarge Avenue. It has a cross-gable roof with boxed eaves and light gray asphalt shingles. Walls are clad with white horizontal vinyl siding. The foundation is stone. The southeast and southwest corners, originally porches, have been filled in. Roofs over these areas are now lower-sloped shed roofs with asphalt roll roofing. The main entrance is approached by a concrete walk from the City walk along LaFarge. The entrance has a small concrete stoop that is two steps above the walk. It is sheltered by a small gable roof on two simple white metal posts. The door is a red-painted wood door with two upper lights and an aluminum storm/screen door. There is a pair of white painted wood double-hung windows south of the entrance, and a brown aluminum slider north of the door. The slider has a white aluminum rounded-front awning. The south side of the house has a white-painted wood panel door with an upper light and an aluminum storm/screen door, as well as three wood sash double-hung windows. The center window is 2/2, the rest are 1/1. The north elevation has one brown aluminum slider window with an awning, and one wood sash double-hung. The west side also features a 4/4 double-hung wood window and two double-hung windows in the south bay. The south- facing slope of the roof has solar panels that are piped into a small utility room addition on the west side. The utility room has a gable roof and a white wooden exterior door facing west. 22. Architectural style/building type: Other style: Wood frame cross gable 23. Landscaping or special setting features: 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. 613 Jefferson Avenue is consistent with these patterns and blends well with the scale and character of the neighborhood. It is located at the southern boundary of Jefferson Place, although this is not visually obvious and the lot appears to be a mid-block lot. To the south of the property is one of a few east-west alleys in the original plat. The east-west alleys were abandoned in 1988 and the property deeded to adjacent property owners. 613 Jefferson has a grassy front yard that is open to the street. The south and rear yards are also grassy and enclosed with chain link fencing. A concrete walk south of the house provides access to the garage. 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects: There is a older building used as a garage at the west end of the property. It has white painted horizontal drop wood siding on three sides, with vertical board siding on the east side. The roof is a front gable roof with asphalt shingles and exposed rafter tails. The north and south walls both have previous window openings that have been closed up with lap siding. There is a 2/2 wood sash window on the east side. The west side, facing the alley, has a pair of large swinging utility doors on historic strap hinges. The doors are made of vertical bead board in a wooden board frame. Since the 1955 Assessor's card does not mention this building, it may have been moved onto the site after 1955. Between the house and the garage, at the south end of the property, is a storage shed with horizontal wood lap siding and a shed roof sloping down to the south, with light gray asphalt roll roofing. An old window opening on the south side has been closed up. The shed is long and narrow in plan, with a low roof height. Two or possibly three man-doors face north. The original function of this shed is unknown. The 1955 Assessor's card mentions a 14x22 "garage" built of used material, which may refer to this building. IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 25. Date of Construction: Estimate: Actual: 1905 Source of information: Boulder County 26. Architect: Unknown 2