724 Jefferson Ave Historic Survey

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Resource Number: 5BL 11298 Temporary Resource Number: 157508426009 20. Special features: Porch, garage, glass block 21. General architectural description: 724 Jefferson is a one-story, wood framed residence, generally rectangular in plan, facing west to Jefferson Avenue. The exterior is clad with wood shingles painted tan. The roof is cross gabled and covered with brown asphalt shingles. The front facade has an enclosed hipped -roof addition that was a previous porch. The current porch is an open concrete stoop, 2 steps up from the sidewalk, with a non - historic black wrought iron railing and stairs leading both to the west and to the south. The porch has an aluminum awning on black aluminum posts. The front door is a white wood door with one small square light and a black metal security door. Adjacent to the front door is a glass block window. The windows on the rest of the house are double hung replacement windows in modified openings. 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. 724 Jefferson Avenue blends well with the scale and character of the neighborhood, but differs in some ways. The house was moved east on the lot in 1956, creating a deep front yard that is unusual in Jefferson Place. The front yard is open to the street and lushly landscaped with flowers and a raised planter bed with vegetables. A concrete walk leads to the front door. To the south of the front door is an uncovered concrete patio. The back yard is enclosed with tall wood privacy fencing. There is a paved patio adjacent to the main house. A secondary residence near the alley has a concrete slab on the east side and a graveled yard with a raised planter bed 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects: There is a secondary residence east of the main house, adjacent to the alley. It appears to be a converted garage with light tan horizontal vinyl siding, white trim, a gable roof with asphalt shingles and white vinyl clad slider windows. The entrance faces south. The south face of the gable roof has solar collectors. There is also a small shed with a service door to the alley. It has a gable roof and light tan vertically scored composition siding. IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 25. Date of Construction: Estimate: ca. 1893 Actual: Source of information: Boulder County property records 26. Architect: Unknown Source of information: NA 27. Builder/Contractor: Unknown Source of information: NA 28. Original owner: Edward Schmelzer Sr. Source of information: Boulder County property records. 29. Construction history (include description and dates of major additions, alterations, or demolitions): Between 1948 and 1956, exterior horizontal wood siding was replaced with wood shingle siding, the front porch was enclosed, and windows replaced. The house was moved to the east and possibly south on the property in 1956. Awnings were added after 1956. The garage was built in 1994 and converted to a secondary residence in 2007. Solar collectors were added to the secondary residence in 2008. 30. Original location property. Moved X Date of move(s): 1956. Moved east and possibly south on same 2