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Current photo of 908 Garfield Avenue, October 2025 <br />ARCHITECTURAL INTEGRITY: <br />908 Garfield Avenue is not included in the PaleoWest "100 Architectural Inventories for <br />the City of Louisville" (2023). "Stories in Places: Putting Louisville's Residential <br />Development in Context" (2018) identifies 908 Garfield Avenue as a Minimal Traditional <br />Form Architectural Type constructed in 1916. No further analysis is included on the <br />building. The Minimal Traditional Form Architectural Type is described as: <br />Minimal Traditional form houses were very common from just before WWII <br />until the Ranch form became dominant in the 1950s. Minimal Traditional <br />houses represent forms that are transitional between earlier cottages and <br />bungalows and later ranches. Minimal Traditional houses are one story <br />and are generally small and boxy, with rooms situated around a core, as <br />seen at 1032 Lincoln Avenue (Figure 127); they are a somewhat larger <br />version of the 1940s FHA -preferred house. They often have shutters <br />decorating exteriors covered with asbestos shingles, brick, wood, or metal <br />siding. Minimal Traditional houses can be side -gabled or cros-gabled and <br />can have gently or moderately pitched and/or pyramidal or hipped roofs. <br />Massed -plan, side -gabled houses constructed in the 1930s and later <br />generally do not have porches, as they may have imitated the then - <br />popular Cape Cod form of the Colonial Revival style (McAlester <br />2017:144). <br />The structure has many elements of the Minimal Traditional Form houses seen in <br />Louisville, which includes: <br />