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Resource Number: 5BL 11321 Temporary Resource Number: 157508484002 20. Special features: Porch, fence 21. General architectural description: 620 Walnut is a one-story house of wood frame construction, rectangular in plan, with its primary elevation facing north to Walnut Street. The foundation is concrete masonry. The exterior is clad with white horizontal steel siding, with horizontal composition gable siding painted red. The roof is a front gable with gray asphalt shingles. The front entrance porch has three concrete steps down to grade and a concrete stoop covered by a shed roof on black wrought -iron posts. The front door is centered on the fa9ade. The door is not original. It has divided light windows, a white aluminum storm/screen door and a vertical 5-light sidelight north of the door. Windows are white replacement sash of either aluminum or wood. 22. Architectural style/building type: Minimal traditional 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. 620 Walnut Street is of more recent construction but is consistent with these patterns. It blends well with the scale of the neighborhood, if not the historic character. It has a shallow, unfenced front lawn with a narrow concrete walk along the east side leading to the concrete front porch. There is a red brick raised planter along the north side of the porch. Along the west side of the property is a vacated alley with a split driveway leading to a storage shed. West of the driveway there a concrete curb, a narrow strip of grass and a wooden fence along the west property line. The back yard is small, with a grass lawn and concrete paving, and a wood privacy fence along the south and east sides. 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects: There is a small storage shed in the southwest corner of the lot with white composition panel siding, a gable roof and a small door opening north. IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 25. Date of Construction: Estimate: Actual: 1959 Source of information: Boulder County property files 26. Architect: Unknown Source of information: NA 27. Builder/Contractor: Unknown Source of information: NA 28. Original owner: Norman Mossoni Source of information: Boulder County property files 29. Construction history (include description and dates of major additions, alterations, or demolitions): 30. The house was built in 1959 on the same property with 841 Jefferson (5BL11307). The adjacent alley west of the house was vacated in 1973. The front brick planter was added before 1977. Asbestos siding was replaced with steel siding and composition gable siding in 1988. Some of the windows were replaced in existing openings at some time after 1977, probably in 1988. A sidelight adjacent to the front door is not original. In 1998 the property was re -platted as Mossoni Place, with 841 Jefferson as Lot 1 and 620 Walnut as Lot 2. The two lots are still under the same ownership. 30. Original location X Moved Date of move(s): V. HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS 31. Original use(s): Domestic, Single Dwelling 2