612 Jefferson Ave Historic Survey

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Resource Number: 5BL 11288 Temporary Resource Number: 157508435008 19. Primary external roof material: Asphalt 20. Special features: Porch, fence, garage, car port 21. General architectural description: 612 Jefferson is a small wood-framed house that faces west to Jefferson Avenue. The roof is cross-gabled with light gray-green asphalt shingles and boxed eaves. Exterior siding is white textured vinyl in a horizontal lap profile. The lower courses of siding are tan. The foundation is not visible, but it is indicated on the County Assessor card as being concrete. The main house is nearly square in plan, with a projecting bay centered on the front façade. The main entrance is within a porch at southwest corner, south of the projecting bay. It has a concrete stoop and one concrete step up from the sidewalk, with a low-height tan brick wall on the south and west sides. The porch is covered by a shed roof of light green corrugated fiberglass on black wrought iron posts. The entrance door faces west. It is a natural-finish glass-in- wood door with an aluminum storm/screen door. Windows are non-historic white aluminum sliders with white aluminum storm/screen sash, with green fiberglass curved-front awnings on clear aluminum frames. The southeast corner of the house is an enclosed original porch. It has a low-slope roof covered with gray asphalt roll roofing. 22. Architectural style/building type: Other style: wood frame cross gable 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. 612 Jefferson Avenue is consistent with these patterns and blends well with the scale and character of the neighborhood. The grassy front yard is open to the street. The rear yard, also grassy, is enclosed with a combination of chain link fence and wire fencing. There is a concrete walk south of the house leading to the back yard. Adjacent to the alley, there is a concrete-paved service yard with a garage, car port and a shed. 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects: Along the alley there is a service yard with a garage at the north end, a carport in the middle and a storage shed at the south end. The garage is constructed of painted concrete masonry with a flat roof that slopes down to the west, with stepped parapet walls on the north and south. A painted wood panel overhead garage door opens east to the alley. On the south side there is a wood panel man-door with one light, and two 3/2 wood sash hopper windows. In the middle of the service yard is a carport that opens to the east. It has a flat roof with fiberglass walls on the south and north, and horizontal vinyl siding on the west wall. The storage shed is at the south end of the service yard. It is constructed of painted concrete masonry, with a flat roof sloping down to the east and stepped parapet walls on the north and south. Roofing is gray asphalt roll. On the west elevation are two doors: a wooden overhead door and a man-door constructed of wooden boards. On the east side is a metal hatch, possibly an old coal hatch. IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 25. Date of Construction: Estimate: Actual: 1900 Source of information: Boulder County 26. Architect: Unknown Source of information: NA 27. Builder/Contractor: Unknown. August LeComte was a carpenter and may have built the house himself. Source of information: NA 28. Original owner: August LeComte Source of information: Property deed 29. Construction history (include description and dates of major additions, alterations, or demolitions): 2