Historic Preservation Commission Agenda and Packet 2023 03 20

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several different families, including a physician's family and high school teacher's family. Between 1953 and 2016, it was owned by the Martella family, who had a connection to Rocky Flats. Since 2016, it has had three owners including the current one. ARCHITECTURAL INTEGRITY: The property at 1033 Jefferson Avenue contains a primary structure and attached garage. The primary structure is a one-story structure with a projecting front porch and multiple rear additions. "Stories in Places", a residential historic context for Louisville from 2018, lists the style of the structure as "National," a folk style popular between the 1850s and 1930s enabled by the expansion of railroads and access to cheaper lumber, combined with the simple, older forms of previous decades. The National style has many different forms, including the side -gabled form and the ornamental front gable evident in the existing structure. However, images included in the Social History Report (attached) show the house in its earlier form, which did not include the ornamental front gable. Overall, the earliest form of the house shown in those pictures included the basic form of the front porch and form evident today, but with less ornamentation. The Assessor's Card photograph from 1950 appears to show some Craftsman -style elements in the front porch columns that are no longer present on the property. Some of the rear additions were built in the 1980s according to the building permit file. Parts of the rear additions may have predated the 1980s based on aerial photographs from the 1960s and early 1970s. Some of the work on the house is evident in the 1977 Assessor's card, as well. Figure 1. House shown circa 1909. Figure 2. House shown in 1948. Demolition Review, 1033 Jefferson Avenue 9