810 Spruce St Historic Survey 2013

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Resource Number: 5BL8026 Temporary Resource Number: 157508425001 COLORADO CULTURAL RESOURCE SURVEY Cultural Resource Re-evaluation Form 1. Resource Number: 5BL8026 2. Temp. Resource Number: 157508425001 2A. Address: 810 Spruce Street, Louisville, Colorado 80027 Previous address prior to 1939: Louisville addresses were changed in 1939. 3. Attachments 4. Official determination (check as many as apply) (OAHP USE ONLY) X Photographs _ Determined Eligible X Site sketch map _ Determined Not Eligible X U.S.G.S. map photocopy _ Need Data _ Other _ Nominated _ Other _ Listed Contributing to N.R. District Not Contributing to N.R. Dist 5. Resource Name: Historic Name: Gardner House Current Name: Bennet House 6. Purpose of this current site visit (check as many as apply) Site is within a current project area X Resurvey X Update of previous site form(s) Surface collection Testing to determine eligibility Excavation Other Describe This property is within the Jefferson Place Subdivision in Louisville, which is being evaluated for historic district potential in 2010 — 2011. This resurvey is part of the historic district evaluation process. OAH P 1405 Rev. 9/98 7. Previous Recordings: Architectural Inventory Form 2000, as part of "Old Town" Louisville Historical Building Survey by Carl McWilliams of Cultural Resource Historians. 8. Changes or Additions to Previous Descriptions: The 2000 inventory form mentions a partial unfinished basement, but no evidence of that was seen in 2011. There is a flat -roofed addition on the southwest corner of the house. This addition is clad with tan asbestos siding, and has a white -painted bead board wood door opening to the north. At the southwest corner of the lot, there are two corrugated metal storage sheds with shed roofs. Construction History: Although the Boulder County Assessor records and the 2000 Inventory both give a date of construction as ca. 1910, this is not correct. This lot is vacant in an aerial photograph from the 1930s. It appears in an aerial photograph from 1949. It was assessed by Boulder County in 1950, although almost all of the other properties in Jefferson Place were assessed in 1948. A good assumption is that the building was not here in 1948, and first appeared in this location in ca. 1949. Two different oral histories suggest that the building was moved onto this site from another location. There were no building permits on file for this building. The 1950 Assessor card identifies the exterior finish material as wood siding. By 2000, it had been changed to stucco, but the date of this change is unknown. Window openings do not appear to be substantially altered between 1950 and 2000, with the exception of at 1