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Resource Number: 5BL11312 Temporary Resource Number: 157508435004 D. Has yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in history or prehistory. Qualifies under Criteria Considerations A through G (see Manual) Does not meet any of the above National Register criteria 39. Area(s) of significance (National Register): Ethnic Heritage: European 40. Period of significance: 1891 - 1980 41. Level of significance: National State Local X 42. Statement of significance: This house is associated with the historic development of Louisville as one of the many early twentieth-century homes in Louisville's first residential subdivision, Jefferson Place. First owners Arthur and Ann Carveth were European immigrants like many others in the community at that time. The house is also associated with prominent business owners in downtown Louisville. Frank and James Carveth, co - owners of Carveth Brothers & Dalby general merchandise store on Main Street, and Joe Humphrey, who operated the Commercial Hotel on Pine Street, lived in the house. Since 1938 members of the Italian coal - mining family, the James family, have continuously owned the property. The house is not sufficiently significant to be individually eligible to the National or State Registers, but it has sufficient significance and integrity to be a local landmark and a contributing building to local, State Register, or potential National Register historic district. The garage is not a contributing structure. 43. Assessment of historic physical integrity related to significance: The property been modified extensively but the most visually obvious modifications, the east and southeast additions, occurred prior to 1948. The house has integrity of setting and location. It retains integrity of association due to its continued association with the Jefferson Place Subdivision. Integrity of design is compromised by the prominent southeast additions. Although these additions are not visible from Pine Street, they are visible from Jefferson Avenue, and the large southeast addition necessitated a fairly major and awkward change to the shape of the roof that is visible from both streets. Integrity of materials has been lost due to the replacement of the windows and the exterior siding. The workmanship and feeling of the building remain intact. The craftsmanship of the modifications is consistent with the original craftsmanship of the building. VII. NATIONAL REGISTER ELIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT 44. National Register eligibility field assessment: Eligible Not Eligible X Need Data 45. Is there National Register district potential? Yes X No Discuss: This building is being recorded as part of a 2010-2011 intensive -level historical and architectural survey of Jefferson Place, Louisville's first residential subdivision, platted in 1880. The purpose of the survey is to determine if there is potential for National Register, State Register or local historic districts. Jefferson Place is eligible as a State Register historic district under Criterion A, Ethnic Heritage, European, for its association with European immigrants who first lived here and whose descendants continued to live here for over fifty years. The period of significance for the State Register historic district is 1881 — 1980. Jefferson Place is potentially eligible as a National Register historic district under Criterion A, Ethnic Heritage, European. However it needs data to determine dates of some modifications, and to more definitely establish the significant impacts of various European ethnic groups on the local culture of Louisville. The period of significance of a National Register district is 1881 — 1963. Jefferson Place is eligible as a local Louisville historic district under local Criterion B, Social, as it exemplifies the cultural and social heritage of the community. European immigrant families flocked to Colorado coal mining communities, including Louisville, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in search of economic opportunities they could not find in their own countries. Louisville's Welch Coal Mine, along with other mines in the area, recruited skilled workers from western Europe. In the early years before 1900, most of the miners who lived in Jefferson Place came from English-speaking countries. Immigrants from England brought a strong tradition and expertise in coal mining. The English are widely credited with developing the techniques of coal mining that were used locally, and they taught these techniques 6