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historic reservation commissi p on • of south bend and st. joseph county ROOM 1123 COUNTY CITY BUILDING south bend, indiana 46601 (219) 284-9798 February 19, 1993 Ms. Nancy TenBroeck 525 Edgewater Drive South Bend, IN 46601 Dear Ms. TenBroeck: I was quite surprised to receive your letter this morning and would like the opportunity to clear up any misunderstandings if possible. I understood from our meeting of February 17, 1993 at your home with myself and HPC Commissioners Brubaker and Van Dalsen, that you agreed to pursue the possibility of having your windows repaired. You told us that you would contractors to see if you could find one who would provide quotes ,contact for the job. You agreed that you would contact me if you could not find a contractor willing to do the job and we would then pursue the matter of replacement of the windows further. Did we misunderstand you? At that time you did not characterize my suggestion of rehabilitating the windows and possibly considering inside storms windows as "ludicrous," as you do in the aforementioned letter. I assure you that my suggestion --ie: to have the windows repaired --is a relatively simple job and would likely cost approximately half that of replacement. The windows are not deteriorated at all and, except perhaps for the kitchen windows that have been painted repeatedly and would require stripping, the rehabilitation of the remaining windows would consist of minor repair and the replacement of some hardware. I also suggested that you could invest in weatherstripping -- another relatively inexpensive energy-saving measure --and that inside storms were only a possibility if the present outside storms proved to be inadequate and needed to be removed (leaving one set of storms). I firmly believe that these measures --minor repair (including recaulking), weatherstripping and general maintenance --would provide you with outstanding insulation for both winter and summer (air-conditioning). When we spoke on the telephone in January, I responded to your description of the proposed project as "probably no problem" if, as District Guidelines require, your windows were "deteriorated beyond repair" and if your proposal was to replace them in-kind, ie: with windows of the same design and materials.