620 Jefferson Ave Historic Survey

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Resource Number: 5BL 11292 Temporary Resource Number: 157508435005 18. Roof configuration: Side gable 19. Primary external roof material: Asphalt 20. Special features: Chimney, fence, porch 21. General architectural description: 620 Jefferson is the primary residence in a complex of small residences. All of the residences on the site are currently used as rental houses. The secondary residences are described in field 24. 620 Jefferson is a small, wood-framed one-story building with a rectangular plan. Its primary elevation faces west to Jefferson Avenue. The exterior is white-painted stucco. The roof is a side gable with boxed eaves and brown asphalt shingles. There is a red brick interior chimney east of the roof ridge. The foundation is concrete. Windows are historic wood sash 4/4 double hung, painted white with trim painted aqua blue. The front façade is symmetrical, with a typical 4/4 window on either side of the entrance. The entrance porch has a gabled roof on two turned wood posts painted aqua blue. The porch stoop is textured concrete. The walk from the City sidewalk to the stoop is a colorful array of bricks of varying colors and textures set on end into the ground. The entrance door is solid wood painted white, with a wooden screen door. Trim is painted aqua blue. It appears that the original house was T-shaped and that the southeast and northeast corners were filled in, as both corners have low-slope roofs covered with asphalt roll roofing. The southeast corner was an enclosed porch. It has painted plywood siding, a wood panel door with no storm/screen sash, and one aluminum slider window. 22. Architectural style/building type: Other style: Wood frame side 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. 620 Jefferson Avenue is consistent with these patterns and blends well with the scale and character of the neighborhood. It is set close to Jefferson Avenue, with a small, open, grassy front yard. To the north is one of the narrow, unpaved east-west alleys that were part of the original Jefferson Place plat. These have been abandoned and deeded to adjacent property owners. This property has several large trees throughout. The rear contains two additional secondary residence cabins and a shed. 620 Jefferson has its own small fenced back yard, accessed from the front by a concrete sidewalk and enclosed with chain link fencing. The rest of the rear contains no grass and has some intermittent fencing of wire on the south and wood picket on the north. 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects: There are two cabins used as secondary residences, 616 and 618 Jefferson, and a shed. 618 Jefferson is in the center of the lot. 616 Jefferson is at the northeast corner along the alley, and the shed is just south of 616. There is some confusion about these addresses in the 1948/1950 Boulder County Appraiser cards. It is possible that the addresses have been internally re-assigned. It also appears that a third cabin, 614, has been removed. 616 and 618 are two of several similar historic cabins found in the rear of other Jefferson Place properties. They may have been moved from other locations, or they may have been built in their current locations. 616 Jefferson is a small rectangular wood-framed cabin with white painted vertical panel siding and a front gable roof with black asphalt shingles. Older wood shingles are visible below the asphalt shingles. The foundation is not visible. There is an addition on the south side with a low-slope shed roof covered with asphalt roll roofing. The addition walls are clad with white asbestos siding with an undulating profile. The cabin entrance is on the south. It is a solid white wood door with an aluminum storm door. There are small wood windows, and some non-historic fixed windows located in the gables. The cabin appears to be occupied. It has 2