836 Jefferson Ave Historic Survey

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Resource Number: 5BL 11306 Temporary Resource Number: 157508414002 19. Primary external roof material: Asphalt 20. Special features: Porch 21. General architectural description: 836 Jefferson is a one-story house of brick construction, rectangular in plan, with its primary facade facing west to Jefferson Avenue. The foundation is concrete and the first floor is set high above the sloping grade to accommodate basement window wells on the north and south sides. The exterior is red brick. The roof is hipped, covered with dark brown asphalt shingles. All eaves are boxed and covered with white aluminum soffit material. The front entrance is centered on the west facade, with a tall concrete stoop, a concrete step, and a projecting hipped porch roof on two wrought iron posts. The front door is white paneled, probably metal, with a black metal security door. Windows are white aluminum sash, mostly sliders with some single -hung. The front facade has a large window flanked by sliders at the north end, and a bank of four long, narrow windows set high in the wall at the south end. The north and south elevations each have two basement window wells. The south face of the roof has a large roof -mounted evaporative cooler. 22. Architectural style/building type: Other 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. 836 Jefferson Avenue is of more recent construction and differs from historic Jefferson Place houses in its contemporary style, brick material and dark color, but it does retain the small, one-story scale of the historic houses. Newer, more contemporary houses are more common in the northwest corner of Jefferson Place (800 and 900 blocks Jefferson) than elsewhere in the subdivision. The 836 Jefferson property consists of a corner lot with Walnut Street to the north and Jefferson Avenue to the west. Front, side and rear yards are unfenced and feature simple grass lawns with gravel adjacent to the house. Two very large trees flank a concrete walk that leads from Jefferson Avenue to the tall front concrete stoop. The grade slopes down to the south to a wooden railroad tie retaining wall along the south property line. At the back of the house, the grade slopes down to the east. The back door on the east side of the house leads to a raised concrete stoop with 5 concrete steps leading north to a concrete walk to Walnut, and 5 concrete steps leading east to a small storage shed. The eastern portion of the lot contains a large detached garage with a wide concrete driveway that leads north to Walnut Street. 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects: At the east end of the property, there is a large garage with horizontal composition siding painted white, a gabled roof with dark brown asphalt shingles, a metal panel overhead garage door facing north, a white slider window facing west and a white door with black security door facing west to the back yard. A small storage shed between the house and the garage has white horizontal composition siding, a gabled roof with dark brown asphalt shingles and a metal panel door facing north. IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 25. Date of Construction: Estimate: Actual: 1983 Source of information: Louisville Building Permit 26. Architect: Unknown Source of information: NA 27. Builder/Contractor: Fazio Construction Source of information: Building permit 28. Original owner: John Norman (original owner of existing house) Source of information: Building permit 2