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Resource Number: 5BL 11323 Temporary Resource Number: 157508405014 19. Primary external roof material: Asphalt 20. Special features: Porch, fence 21. General architectural description: 701 Walnut is a small, one-story, wood -framed house facing south to Walnut Street. The foundation is concrete. The exterior is clad with textured stucco that is painted white. The roof is a front gable covered with tan asphalt shingles. Fascia trim is painted wood and wooden rafter tails are exposed. Both north and south gables are slightly clipped. The first floor is set well above grade. The entrance has five concrete steps between stepped red brick walls, leading up to a concrete porch surrounded by a red brick wall. A pink fiberglass awning with a black wrought iron frame, supported on four black wrought iron posts, shelters the porch. The front door is light-colored wood with three small vertical upper lights. There is a side door on the east side that was not clearly visible. The rear (north) entrance has a concrete stoop and two concrete steps, a pink fiberglass awning, a white wood paneled door with one upper light, and an aluminum storm/screen door. Typical windows are white steel casements with pink fiberglass awnings in black wrought iron frames. There are some remaining historic, single -hung divided light wood sash windows on the north elevation and the north end of the west elevation. All of the basement windows are historic 3-light wood sash with more recently added aluminum storm/screens. 22. Architectural style/building type: Other style: Wood frame gable front 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. 701 Walnut Street is consistent with these patterns and blends well with the scale and character of the neighborhood. It is located on a deep and fairly narrow corner lot, one of a grouping of three houses (701 Walnut, 709 Walnut 5BL11324 and 711 Walnut 5BL11325) facing south to Walnut Street on this block. To the north, these three houses abut one of the seven narrow mid -block east -west alleys that were part of the original Jefferson Place plat. Too narrow for modern cars, these alleys were abandoned in the 1970s and the properties deeded over to adjacent landowners. Most of them are used for private vehicle storage. 701 Walnut is set close to Walnut Street and Jefferson Avenue with narrow yards open to both streets. There is a large maple tree at the southwest corner, a large tree in the back yard, and grass lawns with small shrubs on all four sides. The back yard has lilac shrubs and there are rose bushes along the Jefferson Avenue sidewalk. A concrete walk leads from Walnut to the front porch, which has a red brick wall and stepped side walls alongside five concrete steps up to the entrance. There is a narrow concrete walk to the back yard along the east side of the house, a concrete walk from Jefferson Avenue to the back of the house, a concrete walk from the back door to the garage, and a concrete slab east of the house near the south end. A garage and attached shed are located in the northwest corner of the property. The rear yard is partially enclosed with wood fencing on the north and east sides. 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects: There is a white stucco garage at the northwest corner with a gable roof covered with wood shingles. The garage opens west to Jefferson Avenue with a pair of service doors made of vertical wood boards. The service doors have original strap hinges. The south side of the garage has a five panel wooden door and a pair of divided light 2/2 wood sash windows. A second outbuilding is attached to the east end of the garage and appears older. It has a shed roof sloping down to the north with exposed rafter tails. The shed is covered with white stucco and has a pair of two -light wood windows and an old door opening that has been filled in with horizontal wood siding. IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 25. Date of Construction: Estimate: 1897 Actual: Source of information: Boulder County property records and 1900 census data 26. Architect: Unknown Source of information: NA 2