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Resource Number: 5BL8212 Temporary Resource Number: NIA Architectural Inventory Form (Page 2 of 5) 21. General Architectural Description Used historically as coal miners' residences, the two small dwellings at 801 and 809 Lee Avenue are located northwest of Lee Avenue's intersection with Spruce Street. This location is east of the Burlington Northern Railroad tracks, and east of downtown Louisville. The cabin at 809 Lee Avenue measures 12' N-S by 18' E-W, and is of wood frame construction. The building has a wood timbers on grade foundation, and unpainted vertical half -log exterior walls. The roof is front gabled, with wood shingles and exposed rafter ends. Decorative purlins, with kneebraces, appear in the upper gable end on the east elevation (facade). There are no chimneys. There are a total of four 3/1 (ribbon style) double -hung sash windows - two each on the north and south elevations. A wood -paneled door, with one upper sash light (pane missing), and with a carved lower panel, opens onto a concrete stoop and sidewalk on the east elevation. •:}}:•}:{•:. .:• .:.....:rFI :A..:.... :.d..v...}3.'.:i:.vvhv:3}b}nk n�v:a^.::YS:iii: .v.n......: �s.....f,:vvvv::••• .•}kv...:•A:...v e.&:. 29. Construction History (include description and dates of major additions, alterations, or demolitions: Oral sources in Louisville indicate that the two miners' cabins at 801 and 809 Lee Avenue were built in about 1940. These are the two smallest of four cabins which were built together at this location, and used as housing for coal miners in the 1940s and 1950s. The cabins had few amenities, with a common privy located in a long angled building (which still stands) to the west of the cabins. These two cabins have had no additions, and no notable alterations, subsequent to their original construction. The cabins are in at best fair condition, however, and are being allowed to deteriorate by their owner. 23. Landscape or setting special features: The two small cabins at 801 and 809 Lee Avenue are located northwest of Lee Avenue's intersection with Spruce Street. This location is east of the Burlington Northern Railroad tracks, and east of downtown Louisville. 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects Cabin at 801 Lee Avenue (5BL8211); long, angled, wood frame secondary building to west (unsurveyed). IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 25. Date of Construction: Estimate ca. 1940 Actual Source of information: Frankie Paxton 26. Architect: nia Source of information: n/a 27. Builder/ Contractor: unknown Source of information: n/a 28. Original owner: Mrs. Marjorie Downing Source of information: Frankie Paxton 30. Original location: Moved Date of move(s) yes no nla