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Resource Number: 5BL 11324 Temporary Resource Number: 157508405013 A. Associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad pattern of our history; B. Associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; C. Embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or represents the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or D. Has yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in history or prehistory. Qualifies under Criteria Considerations A through G (see Manual) X Does not meet any of the above National Register criteria 39. Area(s) of significance (National Register): NA 40. Period of significance: NA 41. Level of significance: NA National State Local 42. Statement of significance: This house is associated with the historic development of Louisville as one of the early twentieth-century homes in Louisville's first residential subdivision, Jefferson Place. It is significant for its long 74-year association with the Italian coal -mining family, the Buffo family. 43. Assessment of historic physical integrity related to significance: The property has integrity of location, feeling, workmanship and association. Integrity of design is compromised by the modified window openings, replacement windows, replacement front door and modified front porch. Integrity of materials is lost due to replacement siding. Integrity of setting discussion: the setting was modified by the 1954 construction of the adjacent house at 711 Walnut. However, the addition of 711 Walnut is more than 50 years old, is part of the evolution of the site and is part of the story of the Buffo family's ownership and occupation of these properties, so it does not reduce integrity of setting. VII. NATIONAL REGISTER ELIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT 44. National Register eligibility field assessment: Eligible Not Eligible X Need Data The property lacks sufficient significance and integrity to be eligible to the National Register. 45. Is there National Register district potential? Yes X No Historic District Potential: Jefferson Place is eligible as a State Register and local historic district. There is potential for a National Register historic district. This property is non-contributing to a potential National Register historic district, and contributing to a State Register or local historic register district. 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 6