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Resource Number: 5BL858 Temporary Resource Number: 157508426005 Does not meet any of the above State Register criteria. State Register Field Eligibility Assessment: The property is eligible to the State Register under criterion C for Architecture as a good example of a Shotgun style house, period of significance 1898 and ca. 1948-1955 for the porch addition. 38. Applicable National Register Criteria: A. Associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad pattern of our history; B. Associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; X C. Embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or represents the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or D. Has yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in history or prehistory. Qualifies under Criteria Considerations A through G (see Manual) Does not meet any of the above National Register criteria 39. Area(s) of significance: Architecture. 40. Period of significance: 1898 and circa 1948-1955 for the porch addition. 41. Level of significance: National State Local X 42. Statement of significance: This house is eligible for the National Register and State Register under Criterion C for Architecture as a good example of a Shotgun style house. While other examples of this local type exist in Louisville and in Jefferson Place, most have been more extensively altered. Both this house and its outbuilding/garage are contributing structures to a State Register historic district, local historic district and potential National Register historic district. This house is associated with the historic development of Louisville as one of the many late nineteenth and early twentieth century homes in Louisville's first residential subdivision, Jefferson Place. Its first owner and long-time resident Julian Gradel was a European immigrant and coal miner, like many other Jefferson Place residents. He was a key local figure as the town clerk, justice of the peace, water commissioner, town councilman and unofficial "boss of the place" (Louisville). Subsequent owners of the property were also coal miners. 43. Assessment of historic physical integrity related to significance: The property's overall integrity is very good. While it has a series of additions, they are not readily visible from the street. The house has integrity of setting and location. Its integrity of association with the Jefferson Place subdivision is intact. Integrity of design is somewhat compromised by rear additions, but they are not readily visible from the street. The front porch does not appear in the 1948 assessor's photo but does appear in the 1982 site form photograph, so the porch represents a partial loss of design integrity. Fascia and bargeboard trim have been widened since 1948. Integrity of materials is high relative to other properties in Jefferson Place. The original wood siding is still in place. Windows on the front of the house are the original wood sash windows. The roofing has been changed from the older wood shingles (noted on the 1948 Assessor card) to the present asphalt shingles. Integrity of workmanship and feeling are intact. VII. NATIONAL REGISTER ELIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT 44. National Register eligibility field assessment: Eligible X Not Eligible Need Data 45. Is there National Register district potential? Yes X No 6