913 Jefferson Ave Historic Survey

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Resource Number: 5BL 11308 Temporary Resource Number: 157508406004 20. Special features: Porch, chimney, fence 21. General architectural description: 913 Jefferson is a one-story wood -framed house with its primary facade facing east to Jefferson Avenue. The foundation is high, of parged concrete, and there is a basement with generously sized windows. The building is L-shaped in plan with a projecting bay at an addition on the northwest corner. The exterior is clad with historic horizontal simple drop wood siding painted white. The roof is a hip -on -gable covered with brown asphalt shingles. Rafter tails are exposed. There is a red brick central chimney. Windows on both the first floor and the basement are paired double -hung wood sash 3/1 divided lights. The first floor is set well above grade, probably to allow natural light into the basement, which was originally designed to accommodate a beauty shop. The front porch is a concrete stoop set 6 steps above grade. The porch has red Roman brick at the sides, metal railings and a fiberglass awning on metal poles. The front door is wood with three small vertically -oriented glass lights set at varying heights. The architectural style is similar to the gabled ell, with a hip -on -gable variation on the front facade. 22. Architectural style/building type: Bungalow 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. 913 Jefferson Avenue is consistent with these patterns and blends well with the scale and character of the neighborhood, although it was constructed later than most of the historic houses in the subdivision. The property is a mid -block double lot. Grade slopes down noticeably to the southeast on this block. This house is set relatively high on the property. The front yard is shallow and unfenced, with a lawn, a large tree with a railroad tie surround on the south end of the front yard, two large junipers flanking the front porch, and a very large spruce tree on the north side. A concrete walk leads to the front porch, with three steps up at the City walk and six more steps up at the porch. There is a concrete driveway leading from Jefferson Avenue to a split drive in a picket -fenced area along the south side of the house. The back yard is enclosed with a variety of fencing types including wood picket, wire, and wood lattice. The back yard has a paved patio, a tree, lawn areas and a vegetable garden, as well as a concrete path leading to the alley. 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects: There is a small storage shed in the southwest corner of the property, with a shallow -sloped shed roof and vertical composition panel siding of a sage green color. IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 25. Date of Construction: Estimate: 1936 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: Julia Guenzi Source of information: Guenzi Family History by Verda Guenzi Hansberry 29. Construction history (include description and dates of major additions, alterations, or demolitions): Lots 4 & 5 that comprise this parcel were part of the six -lot Hamilton property at 925 Jefferson (5BL923) to the north. Lots 4 & 5 were sold and the house at 913 Jefferson was constructed in ca. 1936. The basement was originally built as a beauty shop and used as such until at least 1949. A 20x16 addition, including a basement, 2