925 Jefferson Ave Historic Survey

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Resource Number: 5BL 923 Temporary Resource Number: 157508406003 20. Special features: Porch, chimney, fence 21. General architectural description: 925 Jefferson is a one-story wood frame structure, rectangular in plan, with its primary facade facing east to Jefferson Avenue. The foundation is brick. The exterior is clad with horizontal wood lap siding painted white. The main roof is hipped, with gray/green asphalt shingles. There are two red brick central chimneys. A prominent wraparound porch graces the full width of the front facade and 24 feet of the south side. The porch has a hip roof with a frieze and dentils. The porch roof is supported on turned wood posts with decorative brackets. Harkening to the days when this house was in the center of a large land parcel, the approach to the house is at an angle, with a concrete walk leading to four wooden steps at the corner of the porch. The stairs have a newer turned wood posts and railings. The porch floor is wooden boards painted blue, and the soffit is bead board painted white. The front door is clear finished wood with a nearly full -height oval glass light. A crawl space below the porch is enclosed with painted wood latticework. Windows on the original part of the house are regularly spaced, historic wood 4/4 divided light double hung sash. The west end of the house is a 1957 addition. This extends the full width of the house and has similar wood lap siding, a shed roof with gray asphalt roll roofing, three 9-light wood windows facing west and a side door leading to the back yard. 22. Architectural style/building type: Hipped -Roof Box 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. 925 Jefferson Avenue is consistent with these patterns and blends well with the scale and character of the neighborhood. This small house is set in the center of the block, flanked by neighboring small houses, although it once anchored the center of a six -lot estate. The house is set close to the street with a shallow, unfenced lawn at the front and sides. Somewhat uniquely for Jefferson Place, the front concrete walk approaches the house at an angle, leading to four wooden steps at the southeast corner of the wraparound front porch. There is a very large cottonwood tree in front and large juniper shrubs at the front and sides of the house. The rear yard contains a lawn and planted areas. It is enclosed with a combination of wire fencing and wood picket fencing. 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects: NA IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 25. Date of Construction: Estimate: ca. 1891 Actual: Source of information: Boulder County property records for lot purchase and 1900 Federal census 26. Architect: Unknown Source of information: NA 27. Builder/Contractor: Unknown Source of information: NA 28. Original owner: Virginia Hamilton Source of information: Boulder County property records 29. Construction history (include description and dates of major additions, alterations, or demolitions): The house was built at an unknown date between 1891 and 1905, most likely in 1891. For many years, the house had very generous side yards as it occupied the center of a six -lot property, lots 4 through 9. The two southernmost lots were sold in 1936 and the two northern lots were sold in 1952, leaving the property in its current two -lot configuration. A 10x26 rear addition was constructed in 1957. The original wood shingle roof was replaced at an 2