809 Pine St Historic Survey 2013

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Resource Number: 5BL8024 Temporary Resource Number: 157508425006 frieze that was gone by 1948. In 1959, the addition to the north end of the building was constructed, containing a bathroom. 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. Although 809 Pine has lost much of its integrity due to design modifications and material replacements, it still retains its basic size enough to blend in with the neighborhood. 809 Pine is located on a deep and narrow mid -block lot. The house is set very close to the sidewalk on Pine, its small, landscaped front yard separated from the sidewalk with sandstone blocks. There is a concrete driveway east of the house. The back and side yards are enclosed with low chain link fencing. The back yard is grassy. The north side of the property is one of several locations in Jefferson Place where a very narrow, ten -foot wide east -west alley existed in the original plat. These narrow alleys were vacated in the 1980s and ownership was deeded to the adjacent owners. The vacated alleys are still visible and mostly used for private off-street parking. 9. Changes in Condition: None. 10. Changes to Location or Size Information: None. 11. Changes in Ownership: Current ownerJohn Dimond lives in the house. 12. Other Changes, Additions, or Observations: Further research has yielded new information about the history of 809 Pine. The history of 809 Pine is closely intertwined with that of 817 Pine (5BL7359). In fact, the properties had the same owner, the Eberl family, from 1912 to 1924. This was followed by a period of the properties being owned by different members of the same family, the Sirokman family, from 1924 until 1950. 809 Pine was owned by the Sirokman family for thirty-three years, until 1957. Both properties are strongly connected with Louisville's diverse ethnic heritage. The Eberls were Austrian, while the Sirokmans were one of Louisville's Slovak families. Boulder County property records indicate that the earliest owners of the property at 809 Pine, after Jefferson Place developer Charles Welch, were "Lewis Eberhart" (who may have been Louis Eberharter), then Clarence I. Andrews, in 1890-91. In 1891, Andrews conveyed it to Kate Campbell. She died in 1895 at the age of 41. The 2000 survey of this property gave the date of construction for 809 Pine as circa 1890, despite the fact that Boulder County gives 1920 as the year of construction. 1890 is likely to be correct, as the house is shown in the correct location on the 1893, 1900, and 1908 Sanborn maps. It also appears on the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville. In 1901, the estate of Kate Campbell was administered, and the person who came to own the property was Minerva Nevatt, who, it is believed, based on the available records, later became Minerva Brass. There are suggestions in the property records of Minerva Nevatt perhaps having been related to Kate Campbell, but this could not be confirmed. The 1900 census shows Minerva Nevatt as living in the vicinity of 809 Pine, and she could well have been living in that specific house. Listed on the same page of the 1900 census records as is Minerva are the Eberl family, who lived at 817 Pine, Nicholas Thomas, who lived at 733 Pine (5BL853), and Arthur and Ann Carveth, who lived at 700 Pine (5BL11312). The census records show that Minerva Nevatt was 43 years old and a widow, and she had a son, Albert Edward, age 16. It is believed that Minerva was the widow of Henry Nevatt, who was a blacksmith in Louisville who died in 1899. A 1906 affidavit filed with the County appears to have changed Minerva Nevatt's name to Minerva N. Brass. Louisville Cemetery records show that Minerva died in 1907, and property records show that her heir was Herman Brass, who was approximately her age and a baker. It is believed that they had married. 2