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Resource Number: 5BL11317 Temporary Resource Number: 157508435013 16. Number of stories: One 17. Primary external wall material(s): Wood horizontal siding 18. Roof configuration: Front gabled roof 19. Primary external roof material: Asphalt composition roof 20. Special features: Porch, fence, chimney 21. General architectural description: 722 Pine is a one-story wood framed house, rectangular in plan and situated on a narrow mid -block lot. The primary facade faces north to Pine Street. The foundation is concrete. Exterior walls are clad with horizontal wood simple drop siding painted light gray/green, with simple trim painted dark green. The roof is a front gable with dark gray asphalt shingles. Rafter tails are exposed around the entire perimeter. There is a center red brick chimney. The front has an open porch that extends nearly the full width of the house. The porch roof is a front gable, supported by two substantial battered wood columns resting on a battered knee wall clad with wood shingles. Spanning between the two porch columns is a wooden roof beam with top moulding. The porch is one step up from the concrete sidewalk. The front entrance door is red painted wood with an upper six -light window. Flanking the entrance door are two large double hung wood sash windows painted green, with simple green trim, and aluminum storm -screen units. The west side of the house has one double -hung window, wood sash painted green, near the north end. Near the south end of this side, there is an assemblage of three wood sash double hung windows. The east side is not clearly visible but has two large windows. The south side of the house has an enclosed porch with a lower gabled roof. The south side has three side -by -side four -light windows. There is a smaller shed -roofed addition at the west end of the south side. 22. Architectural style/building type: Craftsman, Bungalow 23. Landscaping or special setting features: Jefferson Place Subdivision is a historic residential neighborhood adjacent to downtown Louisville. The subdivision is laid out on a standard urban grid of narrow, deep lots with rear alleys. Houses are built to a fairly consistent setback line along the streets with small front lawns, deep rear yards and mature landscaping. Small, carefully maintained single-family residences predominate. Most of the houses are wood framed, one or one and one-half stories in height, featuring white or light-colored horizontal wood or steel siding, gabled or hipped asphalt shingled roofs and front porches. While many of the houses have been modified over the years, most of the historic character -defining features have been preserved. 722 Pine is consistent with these patterns and blends well with the scale and character of the neighborhood. Situated on a narrow lot fronting an east -west street, only a few feet separate this house from its neighbor to the west (720 Pine, 5BL11316). The front yard has an unfenced lawn extending to the concrete City sidewalk on the north. On the east side, there is a narrow side yard filled with dense shrubs. A tall wood privacy fence separates the rear yard from a vacated east -west alley to the south. The south side of 722 Pine is one of several locations in Jefferson Place where a very narrow, ten -foot wide east -west alley existed in the original plat. These narrow alleys were vacated in the 1980s and ownership was deeded to the adjacent owners. The vacated alleys are still visible and mostly used for private off-street parking. 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects: The back yard is not visible but does not appear to contain any outbuildings. IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 25. Date of Construction: Estimate: c. 1908 Actual: Source of information: Sanborn maps 26. Architect: Unknown Source of information: N/A 2