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Resource Number: 5BL 11326 Temporary Resource Number: 157508404005 19. Primary external roof material: Synthetic roof 20. Special features: Fence 21. General architectural description: 809 Walnut is a one-story commercial building, rectangular in plan and facing south to Walnut Street. The south facade has a central, single entrance door, which is a clear -finish aluminum storefront door. Flanking the door are two large fixed display windows with clear -finish metal trim. Three additional fixed display windows face east to the alley, and a smaller east -facing window is further north. The front facade, and southern part of the east elevation, are clad with vertical ribbed metal siding below a suspended flat metal awning painted black. Above the awning the wall is faced with dark red stucco. The southeast corner has a decorative wainscot of simulated sandstone in a random ashlar coursing. The foundation is board -finished concrete. The building structure is concrete masonry coated with dark red - colored smooth stucco, with some sections of vertical ribbed metal siding. The roof is flat with a parapet topped by clear -finish metal parapet flashing. The north end of the building is a separately -entered unit with the address 811-1/2. 22. Architectural style/building type: No style 23. Landscaping or special setting features: Landscape or special setting description: 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. 809 Walnut is located on a deep, narrow lot within Jefferson Place. Its commercial architecture and function are unique in Jefferson Place and more similar to Main Street. The property is fenced with chain link fencing on the west and north. The building is set very close to the asphalt alley to the east. The front entrance is set about two feet above the sidewalk elevation along Walnut Street, accessed by four concrete steps leading to a raised concrete platform edged by concrete masonry topped with thin sandstone. 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects: None. IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 25. Date of Construction: Estimate: Actual: 1954 (altered 1975, 2011) Source of information: May 1995 Louisville Historian 26. Architect: Unknown Source of information: NA 27. Builder/Contractor: Unknown Source of information: NA 28. Original owner: Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Source of information: May 1995 Louisville Historian 29. Construction history (include description and dates of major additions, alterations, or demolitions): This building was built to house the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph switchboard operations. In 1975, the building was remodeled and converted into a hair salon. It may have been at this time that diagonal cedar siding was installed, and a simulated mansard cedar shingle fascia was added on the front facade. The building was altered in 2011 by the addition of exterior stucco, vertical ribbed metal siding, additional windows on the front, and addition of a suspended flat metal canopy over the front and part of the east side. 30. Original location X Moved Date of move(s): 2