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Resource Number: 5BL8013
<br />Temporary Resource Number: N/A Architectural Inventory Form
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<br />21. General Architectural Description
<br />Displaying elements of the Bungalow style, this building is a wood frame dwelling,
<br />supported by a low stone foundation. The building's exterior walls are light beige
<br />color stucco, over wood frame construction. The roof is a moderately -pitched front
<br />gable, with brown asphalt shingles, and boxed eaves. One red brick chimney is
<br />located on the exterior of the south elevation. A large, non -historic, single -light
<br />fixed -pane fixed -pane window, flanked by single -light casement windows, is
<br />centered on the facade, and covered by a fiberglass awning. A canted hipped -
<br />roof bay window, with three non -original fixed -pane windows, is located on the
<br />south elevation. Also on the south elevation, there are thee 1/1 single -hung sash
<br />windows, and one large single -light fixed -pane window, flanked by single -light
<br />casements. All of these windows have metal frames, and are not historic. Window
<br />patterns elsewhere include 1/1 double -hung sash, 2/2 double -hung sash, and 5/1
<br />double -hung sash (ribbon style), all of which appear historic, if not original. An
<br />enclosed front porch, with battered half walls, is located on the west elevation.
<br />The porch is covered by a gable roof, with decorative purlins and a ridge pole with
<br />knee braces. A 10-light glass -in -wood -frame door, with an aluminum storm door,
<br />enters the porch on the south side. A secondary entrance is located at the east end
<br />of the south elevation, where a wood -paneled door, opens onto a 4-step concrete
<br />porch.
<br />A Secondary Residence is located in the backyard, east of the house. This is a
<br />11/2-story wood -frame building, supported by a low concrete foundation. Its exterior
<br />walls are painted yellow horizontal weatherboard, with 1 " by 4" corner boards, and
<br />it is covered by a moderately -pitched side gable roof, with red asphalt shingles and
<br />boxed eaves. One red brick chimney is located at the south end of the roof ridge.
<br />Windows are 2/2 double -hung sash, with painted yellow wood frames, and painted
<br />brown wood screens. A painted yellow wood -paneled door, is located on the west
<br />elevation. A metal awning projects over this door and a window. A painted beige
<br />wood -paneled door, with two slender upper sash lights, with rounded tops, and with
<br />a wood screen door, located on the east elevation.
<br />A large Garage is located just northeast of the Secondary Residence. This
<br />building has a concrete slab foundation and floor, and red glazed brick walls,
<br />covered with concrete pargeting. The roof is flat, with stepped side gables along
<br />the north and south elevations. A painted white horizontal sliding, vertical wood
<br />plank door is located at the west end of the south elevation. A painted red roll-
<br />away garage door is located at the east end of the south elevation.
<br />A small Shed is located just north of the Secondary Residence, and west of the
<br />Garage. This small building has a wood timbers on grade foundation, vertical
<br />wood plank walls, and a gable roof, with red asphalt shingles over 1x wood
<br />decking and 2x wood rafters. A wood -paneled door is located on the west
<br />elevation.
<br />29.Construction History (include description and dates of major additions,
<br />alterations, or demolitions:
<br />Sanborn insurance maps provide evidence that this house was constructed before
<br />1893. The enclosed front porch does not appear on the 1893, 1900, and 1908
<br />Sanborns. Displaying elements of the Bungalow style, the porch probably dates to
<br />the 1910s or 1920s. The Secondary residence was built between 1900 and 1908.
<br />23. Landscape or setting special features:
<br />This property is located on the east side of
<br />Main Street in downtown Louisville.
<br />24. Associated buildings, features, or objects
<br />Secondary Residence, Garage, Shed
<br />IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
<br />25. Date of Construction:
<br />Estimate ca. 1890
<br />Actual
<br />Source of information:
<br />Sanborn map, 1893
<br />26. Architect:
<br />n/a
<br />Source of information:
<br />n/a
<br />27. Builder/ Contractor:
<br />unknown
<br />Source of information:
<br />n/a
<br />28. Original owner:
<br />unknown
<br />Source of information:
<br />n/a
<br />30. Original location:
<br />Moved
<br />Date of move(s)
<br />yes
<br />no
<br />n/a
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