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APPENDIX E <br />crumlish/sporleder and associates <br />architecture planning urban design <br />6 • <br />611 West co"axsouih band. Indiana 4601 219-234-9300 <br />member firm e. design International Incorporated <br />December 21 , 1981 <br />Hon i Roger Parent <br />Mayor, City of South Bend <br />Office of the Mayor <br />County -City Building <br />Jefferson + Lafayette <br />South Bend, IN 46601 <br />RE: I.O.O. F. Building <br />Dear Mayor Parent, <br />A significant community resource is in clanger of being wasted. riven <br />our economic situation and energy conscious times allowing this wou►d <br />be a crying shame and not right. Please correct the error made. <br />On behalf of our community I request that the instructions tc `he <br />• <br />demolition contractor, notice to proceed, be withdrawn. In addition, <br />please take your former position of support for the building to cord 1ue <br />on line. Any building with a floor area 'ratio of nine (9) right in the <br />heart of downtown, of sound type I construction, reinforced concrete <br />frame throughout with a energy efficient envelope, and potential for <br />continued service should remain. Rehabilitation and adaptive use <br />precedents are no longer isolated happenstances but are key to suc ;e_ s <br />in redevelopment efforts in. all parts of the country. In addition, this <br />is not any building. It has been deemed, with much studied <br />significant. It carries the top rank position in the City's own survay <br />of historic buildings and places. The State Historic Preservation Review <br />Board is set to act on the nomination for listing in the National, Regtster <br />of Historic Places. The matter is on the agenda for hearing at a meeting <br />of the Review Board early nexi. year- (1982) . Also, as you may know, <br />there area very _few buildings in South Bend with major architectural and <br />people spaces that, compare with the I.O.O. F. 9th and 10th floor spaces, <br />the banquet/ball room , the recreation room and the lodge hall, and <br />certainly none ten (10) stories -high. The architecture of the building, <br />a simplified merger of neo -gothic and art deco detailing, is very <br />significant and attractive. The architects, Freyermuth and Maurer, <br />were among the premier architects of our area and Freyermuth also <br />served as Mayor. All this I'm sure you know. <br />• <br />