Historic Preservation Commission Case 05-001-LA Staff Report

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JORD/NELLI HOUSE, LOUISVILLE HISTORICAL MUSEUM. HISTORICAL INFORMATION The house was built a few years after the turn of the twentieth century and served as a single family residence until 2001 when it was moved to the museum site. The property's early owners may have included Robert and Mary Jacoe. By 1916, though, this was the residence of Frank R. and Rose Jordinelli. (Boulder County directories contain a myriad of spellings for Jordinelli, including Geordinelli, Jardinelli, Gordinelli, and Jordinalli.) The Jordinellis had come to Louisville in the early 1900s, where Frank found work in the coal mines. Before moving into this house, the family lived in the Caledonia Addition, in the northeast section of Louisville. Robert Jordinelli, possibly a brother, lived on LaFarge Avenue between Pine Street and Hutchinson Street at about the same time. Another Jordinelli Family lived on Second Street. This property stayed in the hands of the Frank and Rose Jordinelli family for many years, and eventually passed onto their daughter Mrs. Minnie (Jordinelli) DeRose. Born circa 1899, Minnie is listed in the 1928 Boulder County Directory as a teacher. In later years, she worked as a telephone operator at the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company office which was located at 913 Main Street. Mrs. Minnie DeRose continued to live here in retirement into the 1990s. Walden Miller and Catherine Abel purchased the property in 1998 and subsequently donated the building to the City of Louisville in 2001 at which time the house and summer kitchen were moved the Louisville Historical Museum site at 1001 Main Street. ARCHITECTURAL and PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Construction Date: 1904 General Architectural Description - Displaying modest elements of the Queen Anne architectural style, this house is a wood frame structure supported by a low concrete foundation. The building's exterior walls are clad with painted cream color horizontal weatherboard, with painted 1" by 4" corner boards. The intersecting gables roof is covered with wood shingles and boxed eaves. There are no chimneys. The building has entrances facing both onto the alley to the west and onto South Street to the south. A painted white wood -paneled door, with an aluminum storm door, opens onto a wood porch at the south end of the west elevation. The porch is covered by a hipped roof held up by columns and engaged columns, and with a sawtooth frieze along the porch eave. The entrance on the south elevation consists of a screened -in hipped -rood porch, with painted cream color wood frame half -walls and a wood screen door facing south that leads onto the porch. A painted white wood -paneled door, with an aluminum storm door, leads from the porch into the interior of the house. A distinctive canted bay window, with four 1/1 double -hung sash windows, is located at the west end of the south elevation. Windows elsewhere are primarily single and paired 1/1 and 4/4 double -hung sash with