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Resource Number: 5BL 11298 <br />Temporary Resource Number: 157508426009 <br />(2) An established and familiar natural setting or visual feature that is culturally significant to the <br />history of Louisville. <br />Does not meet any of the above local criteria. <br />Local Field Eligibility Assessment: The property is worthy of nomination as a local landmark due to its long (90- <br />year) association with the Schmelzer family, an Austrian immigrant coal mining family. <br />37B. Applicable State Register of Historic Properties Criteria: <br />A. The property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to history. <br />B. The property is connected with persons significant in history. <br />C. The property has distinctive characteristics of a type, period, method of construction or artisan. <br />D. The property has geographic importance. <br />E. The property contains the possibility of important discoveries related to prehistory or history. <br />X Does not meet any of the above State Register criteria. <br />State Register Field Eligibility Assessment: Not eligible <br />38. Applicable National Register Criteria: <br />A. Associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad pattern of our history; <br />B. Associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; <br />C. Embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or represents <br />the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or represents a significant and <br />distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or <br />D. Has yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in history or prehistory. <br />Qualifies under Criteria Considerations A through G (see Manual) <br />X Does not meet any of the above National Register criteria <br />39. Area(s) of significance (National Register): NA <br />40. Period of significance: NA <br />41. Level of significance: NA National State Local <br />42. Statement of significance: This house is associated with the historic development of Louisville as one of the <br />early homes in Louisville's first residential subdivision, Jefferson Place. Although Jefferson Place was platted in <br />1880, few houses were actually built here before 1900. The property's long 90-year association with the <br />Austrian immigrant coal mining family, the Schmelzers, make it worthy of nomination as a local landmark. <br />43. Assessment of historic physical integrity related to significance: The house lacks integrity of setting due to the <br />large garage/secondary residence built on the property in 1993. Integrity of location is compromised since the <br />house was moved on the same property in 1956. However this occurred while the Schmelzer family owned and <br />occupied the house and happened more than 50 years ago, so it does not represent a loss of integrity of <br />location. Integrity of materials is compromised by the change from horizontal wood siding to wood shingle <br />siding, but again, this occurred in 1956 so this does not represent a loss of integrity of location. Similarly, <br />integrity of design is compromised but not lost due to the modified windows, modified window sizes, and <br />enclosure of the original front porch. The house retains integrity of workmanship and feeling. <br />5 <br />