1001 Main St Historic Survey - Jordinelli House 1100 LaFarge

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Resource Number: 5BL915 Temporary Resource Number: NIA Architectural Inventory Form (Page 2 of 5) 21. General Architectural Description Displaying modest elements of the Queen Anne architectural style, this house is a wood frame structure supported by a low concrete foundation. The building's exterior walls are cladded with painted cream color horizontal weatherboard, with painted salmon color 1 " by 4" corner boards. The intersecting gables roof is covered with red asphalt shingles, and has boxed eaves. There are no chimneys. The building has entrances facing both onto LaFarge Avenue to the west, and onto Short Street to the south. A painted white wood -paneled door, with an aluminum storm door, opens onto a concrete porch located at the south end of the west elevation. The porch is covered by a hipped roof, held up by painted salmon color turned columns and engaged columns, and with a sawtooth frieze along the porch eave. The entrance on the south elevation consists of a screened -in hipped -roof porch, with painted cream color wood frame half -walls. Two wood screen doors (one facing south and the other facing east) lead into the porch. A painted white wood -paneled door, with an aluminum storm door, leads from the porch into the interior of the house. A distinctive canted bay window, with four 1/1 double -hung sash windows, is located at the west end of the south elevation. Windows elsewhere are primarily single and paired 1/1 and 4/4 double -hung sash, with painted white wood frames, and painted salmon color wood surrounds, with wood cornices. A 10' by 15' Summer Kitchen is located a few feet east of the house. This one-story wood frame building is supported by a low concrete foundation, and features painted cream color horizontal weatherboard walls with painted salmon color 1 " by 4" corner boards. The roof is a moderately -pitched side gable with wood shingles and boxed eaves. Single 4-light windows are located on the east and south elevations, while one 8-light window is located on the north elevation. All three windows display painted white wood frames, and painted salmon color wood surrounds. A painted white wood screen door, located on the south elevation, opens onto a concrete patio which extends to the house. 29.Construction History (include description and dates of major additions, alterations, or demolitions: This house was constructed in 1904. The oldest portion of the house is the screened -in porch on the south elevation which was initially built as a chicken house, before it was incorporated into the house. There have been no additions to the house subsequent to a 1948 Boulder County property appraisal. The Summer Kitchen's date of construction is unknown, however, it was undoubtedly built within a few years of the house's construction. 23. Landscape or setting special features: This house is located on an oversized corner lot, at the northeast corner of LaFarge Avenue and Short Street, in an old residential neighborhood, northwest of downtown Louisville. 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects Summer Kitchen IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 25. Date of Construction: Estimate Actual 1904 Source of information: Oral information from Minnie De Rosa to Steve Mehls in 1985. 26. Architect: nia Source of information: nja 27. Builder/ Contractor: unknown Source of information: n/a 28. Original owner: unknown Source of information: nia 30. Original location: yes Moved no Date of move(s) n/a