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stated that the house had been more or less a one-story house with an attic, and the original stairs leading upstairs didn't meet code and were too steep and narrow to move furniture upstairs. Dunlap made it a full two story home by raising the roof. He noted, "The intent was to maintain the original profile of the house, so adding an extra gable looks appropriate, while adding extra space and headroom." The main level is listed as having 811 square feet, the same as what was recorded as the square footage for the entire house during a property assessment by the County in 1948. Dunlap stated that he removed some features that had been added in the 1950s. For example, he removed the eight -foot acoustical tile ceiling and raised the ceiling back to the original nine feet. The south window had been filled in with brick, and he reinstated it. Among the challenges that Dunlap encountered were very old 2x4 rafters, four layers of old wood shingles, and tube and spindle wiring. The original shingles on the porch roof were cut shingles in scallop and trapezoid shapes. In 2008, the City of Louisville presented Dunlap with a Historic Preservation Merit Award for his historically sensitive addition, which consisted of raising the roof to create additional space. Records of the work that owners have had done on the house can be found on the City website here: Lincoln 741- Laserfiche WebLink (louisvilleco.gov) . According to the report "Stories in Places: Putting Louisville's Residential Development in Context" (at Microsoft Word - Final Louisville Residential Context 111918 (louisvilleco.gov) written by PaleoWest Archaeology for the City of Louisville, 741 Lincoln is a Queen Anne -style house that is one of "historical Louisville's largest and/or fanciest houses" (p. 43). The report also notes that "Louisville contains largely wood frame examples, which probably reflects the historical trend of constructing buildings of wood after seeing some marked subsidence and failure of brick buildings due to underlying coal mines" (p. 114). The report included this current photo: The preceding research is based on a review of relevant and available online County property records, census records, oral history interviews, Louisville directories, and Louisville Historical Museum maps, files, obituary records, and historical photographs from the collection of the Louisville Historical Museum. 7