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Resource Number: 5BL935
<br />Temporary Resource Number: NIA Architectural Inventory Form
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<br />21. General Architectural Description
<br />One of Louisville's few examples of a historic brick residence, this 11/2-
<br />story dwelling is set on a low coursed sandstone foundation. The exterior
<br />walls are red brick, laid in common bond (headers every seventh course),
<br />and there are three belt courses, described as follows: two rows of
<br />projecting stretchers form a belt course at the level of the first story
<br />window sills; two rows of projecting stretchers, separated by a course of
<br />bricks laid in a sawtooth pattern, creates a belt course at the level of the
<br />first story window lintels; the third belt course is formed by two courses
<br />of projecting stretchers, at the level of the upper half story window sills.
<br />The building is covered by a cross gabled roof, with grey asphalt shingles
<br />and boxed eaves. A red brick chimney is located on the exterior of the
<br />south elevation. Window patterns are predominantly 3/1 double -hung
<br />sash (ribbon style), with transom lights, painted white wood frames, stone
<br />lugsills, and segmental brick arch headers. A stained natural brown
<br />wood -paneled front entry door, with a stained glass upper sash light, and
<br />with decorative carved panels, and with a dentil course in the locking
<br />rail, is located on the east elevation. This door has a distinctive, painted
<br />white, wood screen door, and opens onto a painted red tongue -and -groove
<br />wood porch, located at the north end of the facade (east elevation). The
<br />porch has painted buff red concrete half walls, and painted white turned
<br />columns, with brackets, supporting a hipped and gabled porch roof. A
<br />wood frieze appears along the roof eave. A 10-light glass -in -wood -frame
<br />door, with flanking sidelights, opens onto a concrete patio, covered by a
<br />flat roof balcony, on the west elevation. This roof also serves as an upper
<br />half -story balcony. A painted white wood door, with a segmental brick
<br />arch header, opens onto the balcony.
<br />A Carriage House,or Garage, is located west of the house. This 11/2-story
<br />brick building is supported by a concrete foundation, and has red brick
<br />walls, laid in common bond. Painted beige square -cut wood shingles
<br />appear in the upper gable ends. The roof is a steeply -pitched side -gable,
<br />with a short shed -roofed extension to the north. A gabled wall dormer,
<br />with two single -light windows, topped by clerestory windows, are located
<br />on the south elevation. 1/1 double -hung sash windows are located in the
<br />upper gable ends, on the west and east elevations. A large metal roll-
<br />away garage door opens onto a concrete driveway which extends to
<br />Spruce Street to the north.
<br />29.Construction History (include description and dates of major additions,
<br />alterations, or demolitions:
<br />Boulder County Assessor records indicate that this building was
<br />constructed in 1905. This date is plausible given the house's
<br />architectural character, and that the Pleasant Hill Addition was
<br />platted in 1900. A wood -frame, shed -roofed addition, to the north
<br />end of the west elevation, appears to be more than fifty years old.
<br />The Carriage House appears to date from the period of
<br />significance.
<br />23. Landscape or setting special features:
<br />This property is located at the southwest
<br />corner of Lincoln Avenue and Spruce Street, in
<br />an older residential neighborhood west of
<br />downtown Louisville. A large planted grass side
<br />yard to the south, and a small back yard to the
<br />west, are enclosed by a wrought iron fence which
<br />parallels Lincoln Avenue, and by a woven wire
<br />fence along the south property line. An
<br />irrigation ditch runs behind the property, along
<br />the north property line. There is no alley.
<br />24. Associated buildings, features, or objects
<br />Carriage House/ Garage
<br />IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
<br />25. Date of Construction:
<br />Estimate
<br />Actual 1905
<br />Source of information:
<br />Boulder County Assessor Records
<br />26. Architect:
<br />n/a
<br />Source of information:
<br />n/a
<br />27. Builder/ Contractor:
<br />unknown
<br />Source of information:
<br />n/a
<br />28. Original owner:
<br />unknown
<br />Source of information:
<br />n/a
<br />30. Original location: yes
<br />Moved no
<br />Date of move(s) n/a
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