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Resource Number: 5BL 11326 Temporary Resource Number: 157508404005 B. The property is connected with persons significant in history. C. The property has distinctive characteristics of a type, period, method of construction or artisan. D. The property has geographic importance. E. The property contains the possibility of important discoveries related to prehistory or history. Does not meet any of the above State Register criteria. State Register Field Eligibility Assessment: Not eligible due to loss of integrity. 38. Applicable National Register Criteria: X 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) Does not meet any of the above National Register criteria 39. Area(s) of significance (National Register): Communications 40. Period of significance: 1954-1975 41. Level of significance: National State Local X 42. Statement of significance: This property is associated with the historic development of communcations in Louisville as the site of Louisville's first dial telephone service. 43. Assessment of historic physical integrity related to significance: The building has integrity of location, but lacks integrity of association, design, materials, feeling, and workmanship. It lacks integrity of setting due to the demolition of the adjacent property at 801 Walnut. VII. NATIONAL REGISTER ELIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT 44. National Register eligibility field assessment: Eligible Not Eligible X Need Data 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. 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 6