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Resource Number: 5BL8043 Temporary Resource Number: NIA Architectural Inventory Form (Page 4 of 5) VI. SIGNIFICANCE 37. Local landmark designation: Yes No xx Date of Designation: nia 38. Applicable National Register Criteria A. Associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; B. Associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; C. Embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or represents the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; D. Has yielded, or may be likely to yield information important in history or prehistory; Qualifies under Criteria Considerations A through G (see Manual). xx Does not meet any of the above National Register criteria. 39. Area(s) of Significance: Commerce; Community Planning and Development 40. Period of Significance: ca. 1904 - 1950 41. Level of Significance: National: State: Local: xx 42. Statement of Significance As Louisville's most prominent (if not only) mortuary during the first half of the twentieth century, this property was historically significant for its association with the community's socioeconomic development during these years. Due to an almost complete loss of historical integrity, however, the property must be considered ineligible for individual listing in the National Register of Historic Places. It would also be a non-contributing property within a potential historic district. 43. Assessment of historic physical integrity related to significance: This building's historical integrity was destroyed when it was converted to professional office and retail spaces in the late 1970s or early 1980s. It no longer conveys a sense of its past historic significance. All associations of the building's traditional use as a mortuary have been lost.