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Staff recommends approval of both requests. <br />HISTORICAL BACKGROUND <br />Copied from 2022 Probable Cause staff report <br />This home was one of the few brick homes in Louisville when it was built, and remains <br />one of the few in the city. It is chiefly associated with the Ostranders, a family that <br />operated a bakery on Main Street. <br />-r*4 L0U18V11 2F OWER <br />I. I. and f1.11. 06TR{Ift DEF15, rropviotors <br />hli,,kinrtA r�P 13nkery Goods <br />r� <br />Odd Lemon Pies ..are Fine. --Try � <br />One and you lviif be pleased-10c <br />Isabelle I. Ostrander purchased <br />the property at 741 Lincoln in <br />1906. She and her son, Albert H. <br />Ostrander, together operated a <br />bakery on the southwest corner of <br />Main and Spruce, where the City <br />Hall is now located. This longtime <br />Louisville establishment was <br />especially known for its baking <br />aromas and for its delicious long <br />A 1909 advertisement in the Louisville News promoting the lemon johns, lemon pies, square cakes, <br />pies at 10 cents each. sugar doughnuts, jelly rolls, sugar <br />cookies, and bread. For the most <br />part, baking was done on the premises. <br />Different members of the family lived in the home at 741 Lincoln over the 49 years of <br />ownership by the Ostranders. In the early years of their ownership, Isabelle Irene <br />Ostrander lived here with her husband, Othello Ostrander. <br />After Othello Ostrander's death in 1916, Isabelle moved away. In 1926, she transferred <br />ownership of 741 Lincoln to her son, Albert. Albert and his wife, Mabel Ostrander, <br />eventually moved back to 741 Lincoln after living elsewhere for a period of their <br />ownership of this house. Mabel Ostrander passed away in 1954. According to the <br />Louisville Times, a vocational agricultural teacher in Louisville schools named Kenneth <br />Scherer then rented and lived at 741 Lincoln in 1954-55. <br />Ralph and Matilda Thomas owned this home from 1955 to 1962, renting it to Norris and <br />Janice Olson. In 1962, it was purchased by Leonard Lawrence and Clara Ziliotti <br />Lawrence, who had four children. The Lawrence family was one of many English mining <br />families that settled in the Louisville area in its earliest years. Leonard grew up nearby <br />on McKinley Avenue in Louisville. The Lawrence family owned the house for over thirty <br />years, until 1994. <br />ARCHITECTURAL INTEGRITY <br />741 Lincoln is a 2-story dwelling set on a low coursed sandstone foundation. It is one of <br />Louisville's few original brick residences. The exterior walls are red brick, laid in <br />common bond (headers every seventh course), and there are three belt courses: two <br />