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Resource Number: 5BL 11322 Temporary Resource Number: 157508406005 21. General architectural description: 677 Walnut is a long, low -profiled house of modular construction. It is one- story tall, with a basement, and faces south to Walnut Street. The foundation is concrete. Exterior walls are clad with wood board and batten siding painted reddish brown. The west end of the south facade has a wainscot of white -painted horizontal composition siding. The roof is side gabled, covered with light gray asphalt shingles, and eaves are boxed. There is a small front gable at the front entrance. The front entrance has a concrete stoop with no railing. The door is paneled dark wood with a white aluminum storm/screen door flanked by obscure glass sidelights. The back entrance on the north side has a concrete stoop with a metal railing. The door is dark wood with a grouping of small vertical upper glass lights, and a storm/screen door. Also on the north side, there is a long concrete retaining wall and exterior stairs leading down to a basement entry. Windows are primarily white -colored sliders, possibly clad wood, with no trim. A fixed picture window flanked by single -hung windows is at the east end of the south facade. Windows on the south side have decorative shutters. Basement windows in window wells have molded plastic covers. 22. Architectural style/building type: Ranch 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. 677 Walnut Street is of more recent construction than most of the Jefferson Place houses and differs in its contemporary styling, long profile along the front facade, dark colored siding and its setting on a large, 3-lot corner property. This is the only house in Jefferson Place whose front facade is the long side of the house. The house is set well above both streets on a large, open corner lot with generous lawns on all sides. Grade slopes down to the southeast, towards both Jefferson and Walnut. From the City sidewalk along Walnut, a concrete walk varying in width rises six steps to a large concrete stoop at the front entrance. North of the house, a narrow concrete walk leads to two steps and a concrete stoop at the back door. West of the lot is a public alley. There is no garage, only a small storage shed with a large concrete apron. A wire and wood picket fence separates this property from the adjacent lot to the north. There is a grassy strip between the City sidewalks and the curbs along both Jefferson and Walnut. The property has four large trees, planted areas with shrubs and flowers along the east and south sides of the house, and a stone -edged flower garden at the north end of the property. There is a concrete patio along the full width of the west side of the house. 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects: There is a small shed adjacent to the alley, with a gabled roof covered with dark gray asphalt shingles, white horizontal composition siding, and a wooden man -door with a S- light glass panel. IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 25. Date of Construction: Estimate: Actual: 1974 Source of information: Boulder County property records 26. Architect: Unknown Source of information: NA 27. Builder/Contractor: Progress Homes, Fort Collins, CO Source of information: City of Louisville building permit files 28. Original owner: Joseph Dravecky and Norman Michaels Source of information: Building permit 29. Construction history (include description and dates of major additions, alterations, or demolitions): 2